Cdr Abhilash Tomy - The man who brought laurels to India in the Golden Globe Race. Watch this video and navigate through the voyage of madmen - The Golden Globe Race and how Cdr Abhilash sailed through the storms.

Women in the Indian Navy are scaling new heights and pushing the envelope. This time MAKS brings you Vitamin Sea and Women Power (Nari Shakti), in this episode featuring two young women naval officers, Lt Cdr Dilna K and Lt Cdr Roopa, the indomitable and intrepid duo of Indian Navy, who are currently at sea, on a 240- days long circumnavigation expedition ( Navika Sagar Parikrama II). Cmde Srikant Kesnur (Retd) spoke to #DilRoo & Capt Prashant Menon, OIC, OSN, just few days before they embarked on this inspiring adventure, making this episode an archival treasure. Listen in for exciting stories and experiences of #DilRoo as they approach their first stopover at the port of Freemantle, Australia.

In this episode we bring to you the voyages of Indian Naval officers.

#MaritimeConversations is delighted to present to you with permission from #Vyakhya and thanks to #SangamTalks & #Vyakhya, a panel discussion on *‘Bombay to Mumbai: How Stories, Sea, and Struggle Shaped a City’* conducted during the MaxCity VoW Literature Festival held in Mumbai on 1-2 March 2025.

Meluha Maritime brings to you this special episode of #MaritimeConversations on the interface dynamics between media and military in times of conflict using Kargil and Op Sindoor as the backdrop. This episode is a collaboration between 'Meluha Maritime', 'Sawaal that Matters' and 'Deflomacy'. Watch Cmde Srikant Kesnur in conversation with two seasoned journalists Palak Sharma and Deeksha Saksena.

In this episode of Maritime Conversations, Cmde (Dr) Srikant Kesnur, former Director of Maritime Warfare Centre, Western Naval Command and Officer in Charge of the Naval History Project (NHP) talks about the Naval Uprising (also called Naval Mutiny) of February 1946. This talk was part of a seminar on the Naval Uprising conducted by the Maritime History Society, Indian Navy, in September 21 and is being shared here again, for our viewers, to add some perspective about that significant event in our history.

This episode of Maritime Conversations celebrates one of Indian Navy's most loved Admiral - MP Awati. Cmde Srikant Kesnur, VSM (Retd) and Swaroop Anand discuss the icon that Admiral Awati was.

On 29 August 2023 we marked the anniversary of the commissioning of the first INS Mysore which was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 29 August 1957. She became the flagship of the Indian Navy, taking over from the first INS Delhi, whose commissioning anniversary we celebrated in July. The erstwhile Delhi and Mysore were our first big ships and pioneered India’s blue water journey. They heralded the era of the big ships and laid the foundation for a growing navy. Today the newer incarnations of these ships lord over the seas. The first avatars though have iconic status in the Navy. In this episode, Swaroop Anand and Commodore Srikant Kesnur talk about these legendary ships of the Indian Navy and what they meant for the Indian Navy and the nation.

This special episode of Maritime Conversations brings to you an announcement on a one of its kind Literature Festival - The MaxCity VoW Litfest at the NGMA, Fort, Mumbai, and Kitab Khana, Fort, Mumbai, on 01 and 02 March 2025. This LitFest focuses on Geopolitics, Military and Strategic issues, Business and Commerce, Maritime and Ocean Affairs, Diplomacy, Statecraft and Public Policy,  Science and Technology and such like. This conversation between Swaroop Anand and, two of the key festival organizers, Probal Dasgupta and Srikant Kesnur also has details of the venue and participants.