On 20 October 2025, on the occasion of Deepavali , the great Indian festival of lights, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking from aboard India ’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant , drew attention to the centrality of the Indian Ocean in India ’s strategic calculus. He recalled that 66% of the world’s oil supply and 50% of global container shipments pass through the Indian Ocean. “And in securing these routes”, he said “the Indian Navy stands guard like the sentinel of the

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