India, Nov. 23 -- The G20 Summit in South Africa, the first to be held in Africa since the forum's inception in 2008, has been significant in many ways.

First, it has taken forward the vision and agendas that India had outlined under its presidency in 2023. The Johannesburg meet privileged the interests of the Global South: The advocacy for greater financing to combat the climate crisis, for instance, reflects this. The six initiatives Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined at the summit need to be read against this backdrop. The proposals he framed within a vision of "Integral Humanism", a political philosophy associated with Deendayal Upadhyay, a founding leader of the BJP, call for a rethink on the development priorities advanced by th...