To honour the multitudinous achievement of the late Admiral, his family instituted “The Vice Admiral KK Nayyar Fellowship” at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), in May of 2020. The fellowship promotes and supports intellectual and policy-relevant research on subjects of maritime consequence to India and, in doing so, commemorates the life and achievements of this evangelist of Indian maritime thinking.
The inaugural research project of the fellowship has addressed the issue of India’s Coastal Resilience vis- à-vis it’s Urban Agglomerations. Dr Chime Youdon, Associate Fellow, NMF, and Dr Saurabh Thakur, now Consultant, UNODC, were the first Fellows of this fellowship and have undertaken a major research project of great contemporary and future relevance, entitled “Rising Seas and Coastal Impacts: Metropolitan Resilience in India”. This monograph, which is the result of that project, addresses the resilience of Indian interests and infrastructure in and off India’s coastal stretches in general and in its major coastal cities in particular, in the face of the adverse maritime impacts of climate change. The monograph offers eloquent testimony to the late admiral’s vision of nurturing an intellectually effervescent maritime India.