India, April 11 -- India recently circulated a draft Arctic Paper for public comments. A final document is now awaited. India's Arctic attention has a brief-but-significant timeline, starting with expeditions in 2007 to the Arctic Ocean; the opening of a research station, Himadri, in 2008, at the international research base at Ny-Alesund in Svalbard, the northernmost island in the world belonging to Norway; and then being granted Observer Status to the Arctic Council in 2013 along with other Asian countries such as China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea....