“Old world is crumbling: Bharat is pushing to rewire the new global order”, Firstpost, 29 Sep 2026.

“As the United Nations enters its 81st year, it is important to note how India, the largest democracy in the world and the most populous nation, has always striven for and supported multilateralism, multilateral institutions and multipolarity. It has been a founding member of almost all multilateral institutions including the United Nations — even before it achieved independence from the time of the San Francisco Conference. In the post-World War II era when the newer institutions were being crafted, New Delhi’s approach was to stand for the cause, welfare and interests of the developing world which is now called Global South.

The UN and its other allied organisations from Bretton Woods Institutions to WTO and WHO have failed to recognise and live up to the reality of the 21st century, when the politico-economic and geo-strategic pivot has shifted to South and the East. Moreover, the crass and consistent unilateral actions by the very arbiters of the so-called rules-based order have been instrumental in its demise and increasing ineffectiveness leading to its irrelevance. That would be the biggest danger to global governance and international law which is being challenged and undermined by the very powers that wish to dictate yet defy it.

In a situation mired in wars, conflicts and unpredictability, the quest for strengthening and rather reviving multilateralism and multilateral institutions acquired stature and urgency for countries like India which champion it by following strategic autonomy, multi-alignment and cause of the global south through diversification and consolidation of the interests of developing countries across the plethora of institutions and organisations from the trilaterals to quadrilaterals to plurilateral formats mainly focused around geoeconomic landscape…………”

Read the full article at Firstpost.