Narendra Modi : Mystery Man of international diplomacy is talking of Mackinder/ Dugin ?

New Delhi/ Varanasi. The mystery is here to stay and it only thickened in Ufa when Narendra Modi delivered his press statement in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. Nearly after 45 years, India joined a security block ,the  SCO, that too along with her estranged sibling Pakistan. Earlier India was in friendship treaty with erstwhile Soviet Union in 1970s. Paradoxically, Narendra Modi's party (then Jan Sangh) was highly critical of this friendship treaty initiated by Indira Gandhi. Modi might have hit the street to oppose this treaty as a party program . But, now as "He-Indira Gandhi", he is striving for something very very big. BRICS and SCO are only a beginning.
                                     The mystery man of international diplomacy said at SCO something strange. One wonders whether this was solely his mental product or was a part of strategic thinking of Indian Foreign Office. Referring Asia/ Eurasia,  Modi said, "For the past few centuries, we have all looked away from the centre of this great landmass, towards the sea and other regions. The time has come to reach out to each other across this region."
                                                  Modi sounds like Halford Mackinder or Alexander Dugin ( the mystery man of Kremlin) .             "Land versus ocean" formulation was never heard in Indian foreign policy. 
                                                 It is not clear whether Modi was referring the domination of ocean powers , England and United States, who heralded era of Imperialism and Colonialism, 17th-18th century onward. But India and China  know quite well what ocean powers did to them.
                                                Perhaps Modi's "land vs. ocean" formulation was benign one. He was only emphasizing the need of connectivity among central and south Asian countries;  but in the era of new cold war one can not say for sure.
                                                 What Mackinder said or Dugin is saying,  is so bizarre for common man. For Indians, who know or care little about geostrategy,  it is as if someone were talking about  Mars. Nevertheless , some Indian ancient tales and myths can provide some clues.
                                                 Lord Rama's Ayodhya was land and Demon Ravana's  Lanka was ocean.  Rama and his monkey army built stone bridge to cross the ocean to  invade golden Lanka and rescue Sita. After destroying Ravana's empire the Rama army returned back to landmass .  The first thing the Lord did was something strange .  He partially destroyed  the bridge by hitting it with bow-end (Dhanushkodi). One can argue the Lord meant - Land should remain land , ocean should remain ocean.
                                                  Then there is something sinister with the ocean- it is audacious, uncaring and threatening. Perhaps for this reason Sage Agastya drank the ocean! 
                                                    Modi talks about Vasudhaiva kutumbakam ( whole world is one family) and Vishwaguru (world teacher) role for India . And Vishwaguru should teach that  Landmass and ocean can live together in peace and harmony.