Can the humble khichdi be an inspirational integer binding together that motley geopolitical melange called BRICS? The 11-member formation, with 10 more eagerly-beaverly waiting to join up - which summitted in New Delhi not too long back with considerable circumstance and not a little pomp--seeks to act as a counterbalance to a homogenised scheme of things represented by a grouping called the G-7 (Gee! 7 only?) not to mention an Uncle Sam-son seemingly determined to bring down the pillars of a rules-based order in favour of a rule-based disorder of one-man, one-rule, beginning and ending in the Oval Office.
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