Aboard the Indian Naval Academy, where men and women train hard to wear the whites of an officermore-inA navy can’t be away from water, and hence Ezhimala, by the backwaters and the Arabian Sea in Kannur district of Kerala, is a fine spot to train cadets for India’s seafaring force. The village, a flourishing seaport of yore cradled against the Western Ghats, is now home to the Indian Naval Academy. The 2,538-acre campus is a mini-India, with young men and women from all over the country training hard to wear the officer’s whites. Lieutenant Juhi Kashyap from Varanasi, who had completed her training, is the first from her family to join the Navy. “It was while working as a probationary officer in the Bank of Baroda that I came across the Indian Navy advertisement.

Source: The Hindu May 26, 2018 18:33 UTC