Whose Kashmir is it? “India’s; period” There is no need for a footnote or a full stop to this statement. 71 years hence, everybody knows it: the people of Kashmir, Pakistan and its military, Caliphate cognoscenti, UNHRC, university intelligentsia, media, separatists, method anarchists, powerbanks who recharge the funds and supports…
Introduction – Belt and Road Behind Belt and Road: China and India are two ancient, continuous civilisations. They survived the onslaughts of invaders through the last millennium and although imperialism ravaged and impoverished them, they ‘stood up’ again in the 1940s. They experimented with imported economic models of Marxism and…
Fisheries Research In Indian Ocean Region – Defining India’s Role Indian Ocean region is a complex region in terms of resources, trade, politics, and human races. The Indian Ocean, as a common resource, has supported trade within the region and along with it, the exchange of cultures, traditions and food…
Ocean; The future of humankind The world oceans play an important role in the sustenance of the planet earth and humankind. Humans have been using the oceans for various purposes; as a source of food, to travel and explore and to trade and acquire wealth. The oceans balance the ecosystem…
Since the 1990’s, India’s strategic outlook has steadily evolved from being a land power to becoming a maritime power. The change was prompted by its growing trade and the need for security of its trade and energy routes. Consequently, the sphere of interest for India also expanded from South Asia…
In 1885, just over two decades after the Meiji Restoration, the Imperial Japanese Navy coined a term, Kaikoku Nippon which meant Maritime Japan. It was a movement to create catalysts for all round maritime progress for a fundamentally maritime nation. While the Japanese Navy germinated the intellectual seeds, it was…
Landing of terrorists on Mumbai coast in November 2008 and subsequent mayhem caused in the city by the killings of scores of residents jolted the country’s security experts and political masters from their somnolent attitude towards securing the vast coastline. The historical mindset that threat to India’s security would emanate…
Indian Ocean, that at one time had been described as a ‘British Lake’ became a thoroughfare for maritime trade that crossed through the Suez Canal and the Malacca Straits connecting the growing economies of the East and the West by carrying raw materials, oil and finished goods. It had seen…
Introduction The oceans provide priceless ecosystem and spiritual services. They also provide many materials, livelihood and esthetical services like biological resources such as fish As a protein, plants, energy, material resources, recreation, tourism and so on. But all these services are under threat now. Rising population and consumerism, resource scarcities…
The idea of Sagarmala is to modernize and develop the Indian ports, integrate them with the industrial clusters and connect it through road, rail, inland and coastal waterways so that the ports become the drivers of India’s economic growth story. India has a long coast-line, and, if the experience of the developed world –…
