Northern Sea Route

"Risks related to the Bosporus and the Strait of Hormuz might require alternative routes," stated deputy PM Khusnullin.

A monsoon that sustains more than a billion people is being rewritten, one melting season at a time, in a sea most Indians will never see. That isn’t a metaphor. It’s a data point. It means India’s Arctic stake isn’t mainly about trade or minerals. At its core, it’s also existential, in a way no ally’s is.