The art of the interview, festive demand and new multilateral groupings
Mint's journalists tried to take all their interactions very seriously. Many of our correspondents unsheathed the interview technique to bring us exclusive reports and analytical pieces. They're yours to judge.
Here's the best of our journalism from this week: The 15th BRICS summit in South Africa's Johannesburg resulted in fresh members being added to the bloc of nations that seemed to challenge the G7 and other major global groupings when it was first created. However there's been much discussion with little result from the time Brazil, Russia, India, China and eventually South Africa, came together to try and take a better place in globalised world economy that saw them as the future engines of growth. Shashank Mattoo reported on the developments in Jo'berg and also explained the summit's outcome.
We got a bevy of columnists weighing in on various aspects, including whether Russia and China are trying to turn into a patently anti-West group (Harsh V. Pant), unpacking the expansion of the group with geopolitical scenarios (Rajrishi Singhal) and drawing false historical comparisons with the Non-Aligned Movement (Pankaj Mishra). New Delhi is gearing up to host the most powerful political leaders in the world at the G20 (Group of Twenty) Summit starting September 9.
In its wake, the B20 Forum, a gathering of top leaders from the global business community, got underway. Mint journalists interviewed many of them: Varun Sood and Satish John spoke to Michael Miebach, chief executive officer of Mastercard, the global payments technology behemoth. Miebach weighed in on the future of payments, India's digital stack and how Mastercard is using AI.
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