Sohini Bose (MPhil in International Relations) is a Research Assistant at Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Kolkata, working on Phase II of the project — India’s Maritime Connectivity: Importance of the Bay of Bengal — under the ‘Proximity to Connectivity' research programme. Her latest publications are an Issue Brief entitled In the eye of tempestuous Bay of Bengal: Measuring the disaster resilience of major ports on India’s east coast (ORF: New Delhi, 2019, co-authored), a book chapter in Adluri Subramanyam Raju (ed.) Blue Economy of India: Emerging Trends (Studera Press: 2019, co-authored) and a Report on ‘India’s Maritime Connectivity: Importance of the Bay of Bengal’ (ORF: Kolkata, 2018, co-authored).