♤ ASEAN-centred institutions,

♤ Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO),

♤ Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping for pursuing political and security interests.

These engagements in multiple forums for varying economic, political and security purposes have, as argued by Shashi Tharoor, made the Non-Aligned Movement “largely incidental” to India’s pursuit of its national interest since the end of the Cold War. This view suggests that the idea of non-alignment remains relevant in terms of strategic autonomy and has increasingly expressed in terms of multi-alignment. The NAM, on the other hand needs to reinvent or reorient itself to remain relevant. This provides India both an opportunity and challenge.