India, Oct. 13 -- For India, BRICS's growing significance lies not simply in the grouping's expansion or the economic weight it now represents. Its importance is increasingly tied to the strategic space it provides at a time when countries face wars, tariff pressures, financial vulnerabilities and a rapidly changing global power balance.India travel guide

India's more proactive engagement with BRICS comes even as it continues to maintain relations with the United States, Europe, Russia, China and other centres of power. Experts say the objective is not to choose one camp over another, but to preserve strategic autonomy by having more options.

Professor Rajan Kumar, Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, says...