Tag India geopolitics analysis

The Brightest Bulb in a Dim Chandelier

Elderly Indian man wearing a red turban and white clothing, seated outdoors with arms resting on his knees

India remains the only BRICS nation still worth watching—but survival is not ascent. Demographics and geography offer inputs, not guarantees, and history is crowded with almost-powers that stalled below the summit. India’s promise is real, but so are its constraints. The question is not whether it can rise, but whether it can change fast enough to matter.