On the eve of an expanded BRICS summit in India, Prime Minister Modi convened with Russian President Putin and Iranian President Pezeshkian — three leaders whose nations sit at very different intersections of global power, yet who gathered beneath the same roof to ask a shared question: what does sovereignty look like in a world still shaped by Western-led institutions? The meeting was less a diplomatic courtesy than a signal — that eleven nations, collectively vast in population and economic weight, are actively imagining an alternative architecture for the global order.