India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has just wrapped up a marathon visit to five countries in the last eight days. This has been his longest foreign visit in over a decade, covering Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia.

In fact, as of July 2025, Modi has undertaken 90 international trips to 78 countries, including visits to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly since May 2014. In the first seven months of 2025, he has visited France and USA (February 10-14); Mauritius (March 11-12); Thailand and Sri Lanka (April 3-6); Saudi Arabia (April 22); Cyprus, Canada and Croatia (June 15-19) and now Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Brazil and Namibia (July 2-9). These foreign trips between 2014 and 2025 have certified him as India’s most widely travelled Prime Minister by far.

The latest international sojourn was aimed at firmly establishing India’s footprint across the Global South. Modi attended the 17th BRICS Summit in Brasilia (Brazil), multiple bilateral engagements and received four national awards (27 overall since 2014). India’s focus this time was on expanding her cooperation in critical minerals, energy and digital infrastructure.

What did this trip in particular achieve? First and foremost, this eight-day trip was used by India to highlight the growing and menacing tentacles of terrorism, especially state-sponsored terrorism, without naming any specific nation, though it was clear as daylight that his sight was trained on a........

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