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REALIGNING INDIA’S NATIONAL MARITIME DAY TO KARTIK PURNIMA AND THE BALI JATRA- A POLICY PROPOSAL

India’s National Maritime Day, observed on 05 April each year, commemorates a single episode in India’s colonial history, the maiden voyage of the SS Loyalty under the British-Indian flag in 1919 from Bombay to London.[1] …

RECONNECTING ANCIENT SEA LANES THROUGH THE INDIA–OMAN MARITIME HERITAGE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Maritime Heritage and Museums during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Sultanate of Oman on 18 December 2025 marks a pivotal moment in India-Oman relations.[1] …

SOUTH AFRICA’S OCEAN20 — WHY THE G20 NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND AFRICAN OCEANS BETTER

Keywords G20; Oceans20 (O20); South Africa; African Union; Ocean20SA; Ocean Actions, Green Renewable Energy; Just Transition Each year, once the G20 Leaders’ Declaration is released, stakeholders across sectors begin parsing the…

LEVERAGING THE KOREAN MODEL FOR MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN INDIA

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has come to be globally acknowledged as a central mechanism for integrated and sustainable ocean governance. Conceptualised as an ecosystem-based and area-oriented planning framework,…

REVIEW OF “THE BLUE COMMONS: RESCUING THE ECONOMY OF THE SEA”

Author: Guy Standing. Penguin Random House UK, 2022. 584 pages, Rs. 965, ISBN: 978-0-241-47587-4 (Hard Bound) The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea, written by Guy Standing, draws attention to one of the planet’s…

TÜRKIYE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIA VIS-À-VIS BANGLADESH — A BRIDGE TOO FAR

Keywords: TÜRKIYE–BANGLADESH RELATIONS, INDIA–BANGLADESH TENSIONS, TÜRKIYE IN SOUTH ASIA, STRATEGIC COMPETITION IN SOUTH ASIA, INDIA–BANGLADESH MARITIME COOPERATION, GEOPOLITICS OF BANGLADESH, EXTERNAL ACTORS…

CRITICAL REVIEW: THE BLUE ECONOMY INDEX 2025 (CHINA–INDIAN OCEAN BLUE ECONOMY THINK TANK NETWORK - CIOBEN)

Yangfang Li and Yishuang Yang. Blue Economy Index (2025) in the Indian Ocean: Contributing to a Sustainable and Innovative-driven Future. China–Indian Ocean Blue Economy Think Tank Network (CIOBEN), April 2025. Introduction The Blue…

BEYOND CAUTION: REFRAMING INDIA–TAIWAN COOPERATION IN A TRANSFORMING INDO-PACIFIC

The connections between India and Taiwan are relatively recent, carefully calibrated, and often astonishingly understated, yet they carry considerable scope for constructive cooperation. Taiwan increasingly demonstrates areas…

ENHANCING DEFENCE INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION WITH VIETNAM

Keywords: India-Vietnam; Comprehensive Strategic Partnership; Defence Industry Cooperation; Maritime Security; Indo-Pacific The ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ between India and Vietnam, signed in 2016, has progressively…

PROTECTING THE PAST BENEATH THE WAVES: LAW, POLICY, AND THE FUTURE OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY IN INDIA

The seas around India are not merely peripheral frontiers; they are repositories of history. Beneath the surface lies an archive of trade, migration, knowledge, and technology that stretches across millennia. India, with its…

THE 'ECONOMICS OF GEOGRAPHY' - THE UNDERLYING 'ZERO-SUM-GAME' OF THE INDIA-US RELATIONSHIP A 'STRATEGIC-RESOURCE'-BASED VIEW

There has been a cataclysmic outpouring of both disappointment and anger across the world, and more recently in India, with President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs as a repressive tool to preserve the hegemony and dominance…

RESOURCE MINING AND OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IN INDIA

On 28th November 2024, India’s Central Government — more specifically the Ministry of Mines — launched the first tranche of thirteen offshore blocks for auction.[1] Three of these blocks are for ‘construction sand’ off the coast…