{"podcast":{"title":"Beyond the Indus","slug":"beyond-the-indus-6300750","podcast_index_feed_id":6300750,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10bd9973c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://thediplomat.com/category/beyond-the-indus","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44837767/e8dcc3c525e58869.jpg","author":"The Diplomat","episode_count":50,"summary":"Join host Tushar Shetty every month as he and expert guests delve deep into one of the world's most culturally diverse, economically vibrant, and politically chaotic regions: South Asia.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T06:20:20.072542+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-indus-6300750"},"episode":{"title":"Siddhant Kishore on BRICS and the New Geopolitics of Asia","slug":"siddhant-kishore-on-brics-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-asia","published_at":"2026-09-16T15:22:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-indus-6300750/siddhant-kishore-on-brics-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-asia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-indus-6300750","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-diplomat-indus/episodes/Siddhant-Kishore-on-BRICS-and-the-New-Geopolitics-of-Asia-e3ouht9","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10bd9973c/podcast/play/125830505/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-16%2F415a0cb3-7853-27ed-c591-85c65c2307d2.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Beyond the Indus, Siddhant Kishore, a New Delhi and Washington D.C.-based national security and foreign policy analyst, and former analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, joins host Tushar Shetty to examine the BRICS summit in New Delhi and the strategic realignment underway across Asia. They discuss the consensus preserved in the New Delhi Declaration and India’s diplomatic win on Pahalgam, the tactical stabilization between New Delhi and Beijing and why it falls short of realignment, the costly Iran-U.S. stalemate and Washington's undefined war aim, the Houthi advance on the Bab al-Mandeb and the reconstitution of Iran’s proxy network, the operational hollowness of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, and the hedging by U.S. allies as Washington’s security commitments turn conditional.","meta_description":"In this episode of Beyond the Indus, Siddhant Kishore, a New Delhi and Washington D.C.-based national security and foreign policy analyst, and former anal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3003,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-the-indus-6300750/episodes/siddhant-kishore-on-brics-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-asia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-the-indus-6300750/siddhant-kishore-on-brics-and-the-new-geopolitics-of-asia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}