India, contrary to general feeling, is the odd man in BRICS, an idea originated from former India friendly Russian prime minister Primakov as a triangular summit between Russia, China, and India inorder to tackle, ever assertive US in the post cold war era,especially in the background of inability of Russia to prevent attacks in former Yugoslavia and US incursions in central asia.Emergence of popular,efficient Lula in Brasil,effort from India, Germany,Japan, Brasil, and SouthAfrica to have say in UN,US economic slowdown and looking for new engines of growth for economic stability ,predicted the arrival of BRIC by its own adverseries themself to which SouthAfrica to be welded together later on by insistence from so called south-south cooperation move by India.
Ok ,why India is odd?
Because it is the only reluctant partner in the group.
Russia really want to have a grouping till it develop its economy ,political power in post USSR world, not to forget that its their military market which can be lost to US otherwise.
China sees it as a stage to play mother hen of the group and and poject itself as the helm of bipolar world.
Brasil is found a new successful outward looking foreign policy which may helpful for it to achieve world stage player.
SouthAfrica ,nothing to loose anything is a bonus.
But for India, joining hand with a group which include China,especially when Chinese are still occupying large junk of indian land,continued military support to Pakistan,building naval bases in Indian ocean, continued anti Indian policy of China in world forum including the case of inclusion of India into UN security council with full veto ,will continue to make her as a reluctant partner to certain extent to russian persuasion and also to remain as US spy in the group .
But how can BRICS work without india.it will be as simple and complex as pronoucing BRICS without I, that is BRCS.
