Darshana Baruah
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Biography
Publications
Darshana M. Baruah is a nonresident scholar with the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Baruah is also currently a visiting fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, where she is working on a book about the significance of strategic islands in the Indian Ocean region. Her primary research focuses on maritime security in Asia and the role of the Indian Navy in a new security architecture. Her work also examines the strategic implications of China’s infrastructure and connectivity projects as well as trilateral partnerships in the Indo-Pacific.
![Islands of opportunity: Where India and Australia can work together](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/20171103ran8566787_362.jpg?itok=ZCYt9zvt)
Islands of opportunity: Where India and Australia can work together
Joint access to Andaman and Nicobar islands and Cocos island offers a chance to extend patrols and strategic ties.
![Delhi’s new Indian Ocean diplomacy](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/India.jpg?itok=WaVzqjl0)
Delhi’s new Indian Ocean diplomacy
In response to China, Delhi is re-framing all its Indian Ocean engagements - political, military and diplomatic.