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Indian Ocean: Why India Is Looking West

NEW DELHI: From the eastern shores of Africa till the United States in the far east—this geographical expanse now comes under the ambit of Indo-Pacific, as India sees it. It’s not just the area that has undergone a sea change, according to the Indian construct. The focus too is seeing a shift. On ‘Simply Nitin’, our editor-in-chief decodes why India is looking west when it comes to the Indian Ocean.

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Nitin A. Gokhale is a media entrepreneur, one of South Asia's leading strategic affairs analyst and author of over a dozen books so far on military history, insurgencies and wars.

Starting his career in journalism in 1983, he has since led teams of journalists across media platforms.

A specialist in conflict coverage, Gokhale has covered the insurgencies in India’s North-East, the 1999 Kargil conflict and Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009.

Gokhale now travels across the globe to speak at seminars and conferences, and lecture at India’s premier defence colleges. He has founded three niche portals, Bharatshakti.in, stratnewsglobal.com and Interstellar.news.