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BRICS beyond the Dollar: How India is leading the bloc into avenues of AI, digital payments, quantum tech

The 2026 leg of the BRICS Summit stands out in more ways than one, mainly because of how India, the hosting nation, is steering the agenda and goals away from conventional geopolitics and trade into new realms of digital payments, AI innovation, quantum technology, and more to make the bloc sustainable in the wake of global issuesborn out of conflicts and to navigate around the conflicts that arise out of tussle between the big players, particularly the West.