ABSTRACT
Our institutions of global governance, centred on what may be called the UN system, were designed for the most part at the end of the Second World War and reflected the politico-economic realities of that age […] There has been a sea change since then. Bipolarity has given way to multipolarity […] It is obvious that if the system was being designed today it would be very different […] India, as the largest democracy in the world and an emerging economy that has achieved the ability to grow rapidly […] will continue to strive for the reform of the United Nations to make it more democratic. 1
