BIMSTEC a sunny prospect in BRICS summit at Goa
SUHASINI HAIDAR, THE HINDU | 16 October 2016 19:27 IST

When leaders of countries that make up half the world’s population and nearly a quarter of global GDP ($17 trillion combined) gather, it is a display of muscle that the world is bound to watch.
Added to their economic clout, the leaders themselves are formidable strongmen, both regionally and globally: Prime Minister Modi, President Xi, President Putin, President Zuma and the new Brazilian President Temer who replaced strongwoman Dilma Rousseff.
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