Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) Cmde Srikant B Kesnur is the Director, Maritime Warfare Centre (MWC) Mumbai & is a distinguished academic with a keen interest in Maritime & Naval History, Defence and Diplomacy. 8 posts Twitter
Why I Would Want To Join The Indian Navy All Over Again To breathe pure air, to stay close by the sea (or sometimes, as we experienced, in the hills) and to transact business in an efficient environment is a blessing hard to describe. Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 19 Jul 2022 Read more
A Navy That Dares, A Navy That Cares From defence diplomacy to humanitarian assistance, the Indian Navy goes far beyond combat operations! Read on to know more Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd), Tiya Chatterji 2 Aug 2021 Read more
12 years of 26/11: Lessons Learnt From The Mumbai Terror Attacks "12 years since the fateful Mumbai terror attacks, today is a good time to pause and reflect on where we have reached to prevent the recurrence of such incidents." Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 26 Nov 2020 Read more
Remembering Vice Admiral Nilkanta Krishnan – Indian Navy’s Great Combat Leader (Redux) Capt Mohan Ram a retired Navy officer, in a recent memoir, described Krishnan as “He was incandescently brilliant and had awesome command of the English language and ready repartee”. Let us take a dive into one of India’s most fascinating contemporary maritime figures. Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 6 Nov 2020 Read more
Ships of Yore – How Delhi and Mysore Pioneered Indian Navy’s Blue Water Odyssey (Redux) “They say, ‘old soldiers do not die, they simply fade away’, but what about old ships? Mariners, since time immemorial, have believed that ships have souls, they have a sense of destiny, and they inhabit and roam around the seas long after their physical demise.” Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 6 Nov 2020 Read more
Remembering Vice Admiral Nilkanta Krishnan – Indian Navy’s Great Combat Leader Capt Mohan Ram a retired Navy officer, in a recent memoir, described Krishnan as “He was incandescently brilliant and had awesome command of the English language and ready repartee”. Let us take a dive into one of India’s most fascinating contemporary maritime figures. Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 6 Nov 2020 Read more
Ships of Yore – How Delhi and Mysore Pioneered Indian Navy’s Blue Water Odyssey “They say, ‘old soldiers do not die, they simply fade away’, but what about old ships? Mariners, since time immemorial, have believed that ships have souls, they have a sense of destiny, and they inhabit and roam around the seas long after their physical demise.” Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 15 Oct 2020 Read more
Of Solitude and Substance "While soldiering is indeed a lonely profession, its maritime counterpart aka military seafaring is lonelier still and, within seafaring, hydrography is, arguably, the loneliest of all avocations." Commodore Srikant B Kesnur (Retd) 14 Aug 2020 Read more