India Rising: One of the most fascinating trends (to me) in the international sphere is the recent rise of India.
Although it's been largely overshadowed by the surge of China to the forefront of industrial nations, I think India's metamorphosis is more significant.
In the past ten years, India has finally broken the monopoly of the Congress Party and become something closer to a multiparty parliamentary system. While my outsider's eye balks at the BJP's Hindu Nationalism, the fact that more than one party can draw votes in national elections is a good thing.
The political liberalization has been matched by an economic liberalization that has given the coutnry a foothold in Internet technology.
A truly interesting post on the influence of English on India can be found here.
Money quote:

Is this change really taking place? It is hard to tell, because the first stage is largely internal, invisible. A person who has ventured onto the continuum still has full control of the original regional Indian language, and if this is the regional language you have always interacted with him (or her) in, you will both continue this practice. The breakthrough comes as you notice, for the first time, that such people understand essentially everything you say in English, in more and more contexts. They reply, in Hindi, to questions asked of others in English.

Then come the bigger and bigger chunks of English unselfconsciously inserted into your discourse. The surprise, or amusement, when you use, for example, the Shuddh Hindi word for ‘per cent’: ‘per cent’ is a numerical concept that exists in English space! The effortless English spoken with foreigners (whose English is far less fluent than theirs!), while you both continue to speak in your shared Indian language. And then one day they put you out of your misery by switching altogether into English to explain something technical. After which they go back to Hindi for casual discourse with you.

My own (limited and anecdotal) experience with this is very similar. To listen to the lilting bounce between a Hindi, Bangla, or Urdu wordset and an English wordset in regular conversation is a fun experience.
So, if this is spreading from the pan-Indian post-British elite to the middle classes, what does that mean for the future of English and the future of the "Anglosphere"?
Those thoughts are discussed in comments here.
I for one am more than willing to welcome India into a general commonwealth of English-speaking nations. Somebody has to balance against China.