Ankur Kundu
Ankur Kundu is a trainee marine engineer at India's well-known Marine Engineering and Research Institute (MERI) as well as a freelance maritime journalist. His areas of expertise include geopolitics, international relations and marine technology, and he reports daily on maritime developments in and around the Indian subcontinent. He may be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-kundu-36293b178 and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lad_prog?s=08.
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