India, Sept. 29 -- Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made a fervent pitch for India to be the permanent member at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), a demand which has been growing over the years and resonates with the new geopolitical realities of the world. By openly backing India and Brazil for permanent membership of the UNSC, Lavrov touched upon a question that has lingered for decades and has now become need of the hour: does the United Nations, in its current structure, truly reflect today's geopolitical realities?
Eighty years have passed since the UN was conceived in the aftermath of the Second World War. The victors of World War II - the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China - made ...