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The archetypal variation of the two-day Trivandrum Dialogue connected ‘The Significance of the Maritime Domain: Evolving Maritime Issues for India successful the Emerging Dynamics of Geopolitics’ got nether mode present connected Tuesday.
Inaugurating the programme, erstwhile Director General of the Indian Coast Guard Vice Admiral M.P. Muralidharan (retired) highlighted the increasing centrality of oceans successful nationalist and planetary strategy and described the infinitesimal arsenic peculiarly important for mariners and maritime professionals.
Reflecting connected the humanities challenges of beingness astatine sea, Mr. Muralidharan recalled aboriginal navigation babelike connected celestial guidance and uncharted waters. He besides traced India’s deep-rooted maritime traditions by citing references successful the Arthashastra to ships, ports, and maritime trade; and noted that the country’s long-standing civilisational engagement with planetary maritime routes extended to regions specified arsenic China and Japan.
He besides referred to the disruption of India’s maritime assemblage during assemblage regularisation and its gradual revival since the 1970s. The country’s agelong coastline and expanding maritime interests marque effectual maritime extortion and governance a strategical necessity, helium pointed out.
The lawsuit is jointly organised by the Central University of Kerala (CUK), Institute for the Study of Developing Areas (ISDA) and the Kerala International Centre (KIC).
Delivering the statesmanlike address, erstwhile diplomat and KIC manager T.P. Sreenivasan observed that maritime neighbourhoods often foster stronger relations than onshore borders, and added that oceans are emerging arsenic cardinal spaces of accidental amid the rupture of the existing planetary order.
He besides stressed the request for strategical autonomy, selective practice successful the Indian Ocean Region, and the preservation of multilateralism with the United Nations astatine its core.
CUK School of Global Studies Dean Suresh Rangarajan, ISDA president Mohanan Bhaskaran Pillai and manager V. Rajendran Nair besides spoke.
Vizhinjam International Seaport Ltd. (VISL) managing manager Divya S. Iyer, who led a plenary session, presented the seaport arsenic a aboriginal gateway for planetary trade, a catalyst for port-led industrialisation, and a hub for maritime logistics, coastal and inland trade, tourism integration, and bunkering services.
