Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr Jagannath Panda’s Op-ed piece on the Maldives crisis tiled ‘Male and the Elephant-dragon Power struggle’ was published in The Asian Age on February 18, 2018. The article analyses how the ongoing Maldivian crisis is emerging as a geopolitical tussle between China and India to influence the island country’ political Affairs, and how the economic powerhouses are trying to stamp a mark on the archipelagic nation’s political future in the Indian Ocean.