Does the Non-Aligned Movement have any future in the wake of India’s growing indifference towards it? (Answer in 150 words)

- Does the Non-Aligned Movement have any future in the wake of India’s growing indifference towards it? (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
NAM as an organisation has little future; non-alignment as a disposition has been reborn in India as multi-alignment. India's indifference is a symptom of that shift, not its cause.

Body
1. The evidence: Modi is the first Prime Minister to skip NAM summits, missing Margarita (2016), Baku (2019) and Kampala (2024), attending only the online COVID contact group.
2. The founding conditions have gone: Bandung (1955) and Belgrade (1961) answered bipolarity and decolonisation; with 120 members and consensus rules, NAM now produces declarations, not decisions.
3. India's grievance: it offered nothing in 1962 and has never named cross-border terrorism, failing the usefulness test India applies to every forum.
4. India's substitutes: the 2023 G20 presidency, the Quad, BRICS and the Voice of the Global South Summits reach the same constituency with more control.
5. What survives: a numerical caucus at the UN alongside the G77, and a legitimising vocabulary for strategic autonomy.

Conclusion
NAM will persist as a forum and fade as an instrument. India keeps the principle and discards the platform, leaving the movement alive without its most consequential author.