India, Sept. 13 -- By the success of the BRICS Plus Summit, it is clear that vastly different perspectives can meet on a common stage and in several cases, reach an understanding amongst themselves.

The success of BRICS 2026 owes much to the energetic search by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chairperson of BRICS for the year, for fashioning a unity of purpose within a cauldron of diversity of policies. He avoided the "either or" policies favoured by some global leaders, and did not hesitate to have cordial summits with Heads of Government with vastly different agendas. Underlying his efforts at securing an "end to endless wars" was a policy driven by a commitment to humanism. Although a longstanding friend of Israel, he had a cordial exch...