Sayantan Haldar is an Associate Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme.
At ORF, Sayantan’s work is focused on Maritime Studies. He is interested in questions on geopolitics, maritime security, and regionalism in the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic.
Sayantan holds a PhD in International Relations from South Asian University, New Delhi, following earlier studies in Political Science at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge, London). Some of Sayantan’s academic work has been published in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, International Affairs, Maritime Affairs, among others. He frequently writes opinion pieces in Hindustan Times, The Hindu, The Telegraph, etc.
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Jun 09, 2026Rising To the China Challenge
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Jun 02, 2026CSC Will Elevate SL’s Weight in the Indian Ocean
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Apr 16, 2026Bolstering Deterrence Through Submarine Dominance
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Mar 11, 2026A Maritime Turn For The US-Iran Conflict
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Feb 06, 2026Union Budget 2026-27: India’s Foreign and Security Policy Priorities
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Jan 16, 2026The Year Gone By, The Quad’s Year of Interregnum
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Jul 08, 2025Quad meeting: How square is quadrilateral?
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Jun 27, 2025Jostling for Primacy: India’s China Challenge in the Indian Ocean
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May 30, 2025Why Maritime Borders Are Critical in India’s National Security Thinking
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May 21, 2025The Russia-China push in the arctic – a new strategic flashpoint
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Jan 28, 2025Changing contours of Quad under Trump 2.0
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Dec 26, 2024Why 2025 could be India’s maritime moment