Learnings for India from its G20 journey

At a broader level, what matters is what India was able to do and what it has learned about the world in the course of its presidency.

It is tempting to focus on what hasn't happened during India's G20 presidency. Delhi hasn't been able to get all 20 leaders to the Summit; think of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin's absence this weekend. The likelihood of delivering a joint communique is bleak; think of Russia and China backtracking from even the agreed-upon language around the war in Ukraine at the last summit in Bali and the fact that all ministerials had to settle for a chair summary and

For the first time, Indian diplomacy found itself at the centre of navigating every fault line that permeates the international order. (File)