MULTIPLE FRAMES FOR MARITIME CONSCIOUSNESS

November 17, 2020

In the words of Late Prof B. Arunachalam, “Long before man learnt the art of saddling a horse, he had learnt the skills of paddling in waters.” Eventually, man became more terrestrial. An increasing sea blindness directed our attention to the mainland. Yet, flourishing movement and migration, trade and commerce...

INDIAN NAVY ALWAYS ROSE TO OCCASION IN COUNTRIES AT SEA

October 26, 2020

For 70 years, the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations have stood as a beacon of multilateralism and international solidarity, the embodiment of the highest ideals of the UN. From Sierra Leone to Cambodia, Timor Leste, Namibia, El Salvador and elsewhere, UN peacekeeping has helped countries move from war to peace, proving...

INDIA AND THE UNITED NATIONS: PEACE AND GOOD ORDER AT SEA

October 24, 2020

“Unlike peacekeeping operations which occur after a situation has degenerated into a violent confrontation, ‘keeping the peace at sea’ operations would be intended to prevent the degeneration in the first place. This is what effective policing is all about. It is the constabulary role, and it is one which navies...

From scrap to seaward skies: A tribute to Viraat’s final voyage

September 21, 2020

An aircraft carrier is a dynamic capability that can be deployed over the entire area of maritime interest for as long as four decades, and is, therefore, one of the most optimum utilisations of resources spent on such an acquisition.”—Adm Sunil Lanba (2018) When a decorated war veteran, an articulate...

Revisiting India’s maritime heritage through Samudra Setu

September 3, 2020

Size is never an indication of significance, is a maxim that has taken the world by storm even as a little virus has steered the waves of our imagination and attention through nearly six months. The resulting world has turned somehow more egalitarian with connectivity through two-dimensional digital media breaking...