It has been a week of ups and downs. A week of blessings, successes, excitement, but also of reflection. India was reeling from the success of the 18th BRICS Summit in Delhi while detractors cribbed about food choices, and the discourse on why the 80-year-old NSA munched peanuts during the plenary sessions. Some even went so far as to spread malicious rumours about the event. But our true success lay in the fact that we managed to get 11+ senior world leaders together under one roof, and the New Delhi Declaration was signed unanimously.The week also saw other interesting occurrences….