Unsurprising. India has signed up for the US-led "Pax Silica" which is aimed at China.
I don't even understand why India is in BRICS. And I don't understand why BRICS even exist. It's a meaningless organisation.
First, it's Russia who had insisted to have India in BRICS.
Second, at the time, India was led by PM Manmohan Singh. India still had some semblance of professionalism those days. China also kinda trusted India back then. That was the era when India stood a chance develop into the next big thing. Then India voted Narendra Modi and the BJP into power, and then everything changed. From that day on, India's future have been squandered away. Russia had probably learned things the hard way that India can never be trusted. It's when times are bad that you can see who your real friends are.
But BRICS has no mechanism to expel India, so everybody is stuck with this. India is the current chair nation of BRICS, so let's see how Modi unravels it. I think that since India could not be expelled, BRICS should be allowed to die a natural death. The great economies of BRICS should form a new BRICS without effing India next time. Call it BRICS II, or something else.