The hollow edifice of Indian diplomacy has crumbled yet again, this time on the global stage of the BRICS summit. In a spectacle of abject failure, India’s desperate campaign to defame Pakistan over the Pahalgam attack ended in utter humiliation. After being rebuffed at the QUAD, New Delhi’s cry-bully tactics were once more contemptuously dismissed by the world’s rising powers, confirming its growing irrelevance and exposing the bankruptcy of its foreign policy.
For weeks, the Indian diplomatic machine sputtered on fumes of its own propaganda, attempting to pressure BRICS nations into parroting its tired, evidence-free allegations against Pakistan. The result was not merely a refusal but a surgical dismantling of India’s entire narrative. What happened at the BRICS summit wasn’t a debate; it was an intervention. First, they refused to indulge India’s obsession by naming Pakistan. Then came the knockout blow, a sentence expertly crafted to dismantle India’s whole argument: that terrorism “should not be associated with any nationality.” In that moment, with even its ally Russia siding against it, India was no longer a partner at the table. It was the problem child, the one the adults had finally decided to discipline in public. It was the kind of humbling experience aspiring world leaders aren’t supposed to endure, and one they rarely recover from.
This public humiliation reveals the chasm between India’s delusions of being a “Vishwa Guru” (world teacher) and its actual standing as a petulant, regional agitator. While major powers seek to address complex global challenges, India remains pathologically fixated on its toxic obsession with Pakistan, attempting to hijack every international forum with its broken-record complaints. The world is signaling not just fatigue, but disgust. It is implicitly—and rightly—demanding that India substantiate its wild accusations or be silent.
The diplomatic triumph belongs entirely to Pakistan, whose mature and dignified diplomacy has successfully exposed India’s campaign of falsehoods. While India threw tantrums, Pakistan engaged with the world as a constructive partner, and the world has responded in kind. It has chosen to stand with a nation offering stability over one that perpetually sows discord.
The BRICS summit, therefore, marks a watershed moment. It is the point at which India’s diplomatic house of cards finally collapsed. The charade is over. By crying wolf one too many times without showing anyone the wolf, India didn’t make the world fear Pakistan; it just made everyone tired of the shepherd. New Delhi is now facing a painful, schoolyard truth in front of a global audience: your old stories get stale, and tantrums don’t win you allies. They just earn you the world’s pity and contempt.
