: India Bets on Common Digital Currency, Joint Navies & Russia's Starlink Rival  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_2RAgO4vI  Think BRICS the expanded BRICS countries are making significant announcements, including India's Chairship launch and the RBI's digital currency initiative. These developments point to a major global power shift in how global commerce and security operate, highlighting the growing financial sovereignty of the global south. This signals a shift in geopolitics and economics.

India's central bank proposes linking BRICS' digital currencies, sources say
 https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-central-bank-proposes-linking-brics-digital-currencies-sources-say-2026-01-19/  By Jaspreet Kalra and Nikunj Ohri India's central bank has proposed that BRICS countries link their official digital currencies to make cross-border trade and tourism payments easier. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recommended to the government that a proposal connecting the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) be included on the agenda for the 2026 BRICS summit,

RBI’s BRICS Digital Currency Proposal: A Step Towards De-Dollarisation? Nidhi Thakur January 21, 2026 https://www.swastika.co.in/blog/rbis-brics-digital-currency-proposal-a-step-towards-de-dollarisation 
The Reserve Bank of India is known for its conservative and well-calibrated policy approach. Any participation in a BRICS digital currency framework would likely be:
    Limited to trade settlement, not domestic use
    Fully compliant with FEMA and RBI regulations
    Introduced in pilot phases before scaling up

India’s regulatory focus remains on financial stability, capital controls, and systemic risk management.

This is why the proposal is better viewed as an additional option rather than a replacement for existing systems.

The death of a lifeline called NREGA  https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/the-death-of-a-lifeline-called-mgnrega    Ajit Ranade

VB–GRAMG dismantles the justiciable right to work; it recentralises control, shifts the fiscal burden to states and weakens labour’s bargaining power in rural India. 

NREGA  gave legal status to the State’s obligation—under Article 41 of the Constitution—to secure the right to work, turning it into an enforceable entitlement

. The EGS was financed through a tax on urban workers and backed by a statutory guarantee of rural employment. Its genius lay in its
simplicity: work on demand, locally determined public works, and wages paid as a matter of right

 The design of EGS itself was inspired by pilot projects implemented in the early 1960s, under the leadership of V.S. Page, a dhoti-clad Gandhian, who was the Speaker of Maharashtra’s Legislative Council for a record 18 years

SHANTI or surrender?  an unsettling shift in India’s nuclear liability regime and governance 

the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010  did not confine liability solely to plant operators—the entities that run nuclear facilities—but extended it to suppliers as well. These suppliers include manufacturers and vendors of reactors, components, fuel and nuclear technology. Clause 17(b) of the 2010 Act empowered operators to seek compensation from suppliers if a nuclear incident resulted from defective equipment or substandard materials, preventing any link in the supply chain from evading responsibility.

Russia and France chose to work within India’s legal framework.  American corporations...created a geopolitical impasse, chilling US
nuclear bids in India despite the landmark 2008 Indo–US Civil Nuclear Agreement... sought to  dilute Clause 17(b), with the argument that it diverged from international frameworks such as the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. 

SHANTI 2025 decisively removes supplier liability, placing full accountability on the plant owner—typically a public-sector entity such as the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)