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Sunderlal Bahuguna: The Quintessence of ‘Sacred Ecology’
First Published in Eurasia Review, 26 May 2021; An extended version appeared in Global South Colloquy, 26 May 2021 Way back in the late 1960s, American ecologist Garrett Hardin had posed a question: Why are ecologists [...]
Expats in Distress: From ‘God’s Own Country’ to the ‘Holy Land’
First published in Eurasia Review, 20 May 2021 with a repost in Global South Colloquy Life for many expats in the Gulf/West Asian countries is part of a larger struggle against ever-increasing odds of daily encounters—be [...]
Necropower and ‘Death as Political’ in Palestine
Necropower and ‘Death as Political’ in Palestine Published in Eurasia Review, 17 May 2021. Courtesy to Indian Express, 16 May 2021 where an abridged version had already appeared. This is an edited article of Eurasia Review. [...]
Contours of India’s Arctic Policy
Contours of India’s Arctic Policy It appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, 13 May 2021 India’s Arctic Policy (IAP), notified as a draft document in early January 2021, has come as a shot in the arm [...]
The Left Front Victory in Kerala: A New ‘Yenan of India’ in the Making?
First Published in Eurasia Review, 4 May 2021 Amid new waves of COVID-19 in India, four states (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam) and one Union Territory (Puducherry) went to polls in the past [...]
The Arctic Region in a Strategic Melting Pot
K.M. SEETHI Originally Published in Eurasia Review, 22 March 2021, available at https://www.Eurasiareview.com /22032021-the-arctic-region-in-a-strategic-melting-pot-analysis/ The Arctic region—the northernmost part of the Earth—has been the cynosure of global geopolitical interests since beginning of the 21st [...]
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Beyond the Galwan valley: In Search of a ‘New Normal’ in India-China Relations
K.M. SEETHI First published in Global South Colloquy, 18 June 2020 The Galwan valley encounter between India and China, which took an unanticipated but a significant number of casualties on both sides, is certainly a major [...]
A ‘Testing Time’ for Ageing: Geronticide or Necropolitics?
KM SEETHI Published in Global South Colloquy/Countercurrents, 8 April 2020 With the Covid-19 proliferation taking on a dreadful speed, humanity is in the throes of an unprecedented breakdown. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) seems [...]
Health Security Beyond Borders: India’s Search for Partnership in Times of Pandemic
Health Security Beyond Borders: India’s Search for Partnership in Times of Pandemic K.M. Seethi Global South Colloquy, 16 March 2020 The regional entity in South Asia—South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)—seems to have a new [...]
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The Global South in ‘Northern-led’ Order/Disorder: Reading the Baku Declaration and the CHOGM 2018 Communiqué
K.M. Seethi Countercurrents, 24 April 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/24/the-global-south-in-northern-led-order-disorder-reading-the-baku-declaration-and-the-chogm-2018-communique/ Two of the recent international documents concerning the future of the Global South should attract the attention of the foreign policy observers in India for several reasons. One is [...]
Kerala’s Remittance Economy: Impending Crisis
Kerala’s Remittance Economy: Impending Crisis K.M. SEETHI Countercurrents, 5 February 2018 The ‘insider-outsider’ problematic of diaspora gives every Malayali’s life a degree of tension and uncertainty today. For the six million remittance-dependent population of Kerala, no [...]