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Muthanga: Tribal Land Struggles Amid Promises And Perfidies – OpEd
Eurasia Review, 20 February 2023 It’s been twenty years since the state of Kerala in South India witnessed an unprecedented tribal land struggle. It was on 19 February 2003 that the Adivasi (tribal) community in the [...]
Migration, Cultural Remittance, and the Social Landscape of Kerala
Migration, Cultural Remittance, and the Social Landscape of Kerala KM SEETHI Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/25765949.2023.2165010 The social landscape of Kerala—the southwest Indian state—has undergone significant changes in the last [...]
Human Mobility and Reverse Migration in Asia: Triggers and Travails
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Polity and Society Human mobility is an inherent feature of all societies, triggered by several factors that co-exist with diverse conditions determining the choice of people regarding the destination [...]
Islamist Outfit Masquerading under ‘Republic’ Banned in India
Published in Global South Colloquy and Eurasia Review Living in a pluralist society with a bit of courage and confidence is anything but comforting today. A major reason is the role of self-styled ‘agencies’ with ascriptive [...]
India’s Arctic policy regime and its geopolitical significance
First published in Policy Circle, 8 September 2022 India’s Polar policy has assumed considerable significance with the notification of its Arctic Policy early this year and the passing of the Indian Antarctic Law by the Indian [...]
The Arctic Council: future scenarios for the international forum
What is the importance of the Arctic Council in resolution of today's problems? The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and the Information and Analytics Center of the Project Office for the Development of the Arctic (PORA) [...]
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A New ‘Washington Consensus’ : ‘Indo–Pacific’ and India’s Emerging Role
K.M. Seethi Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 54, Issue No. 8, 23 Feb, 2019 https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/8/commentary/new-%E2%80%98washington-consensus%E2%80%99.html The United States administration is fervently promoting the “Indo–Pacific” as an alternative geopolitical construct to mobilise a large number of countries in [...]
Unlocking the India-Pakistan Dilemma : Twenty Years of ‘Lahore Declaration’ and Missed Opportunities
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 21 February 2019; also appeared in Global South Colloquy, 21 February 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/21/unlocking-the-india-pakistan-dilemma-twenty-years-of-lahore-declaration-and-missed-opportunities/ http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/unlocking-the-india-pakistan-dilemma/ Many treaties and agreements in international relations are the natural outcome of conflicts and wars between two [...]
Kashmir: Back to Square One?
K.M. SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 16 February 2019; also appeared in Global South Colloquy, 16 February 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/16/kashmir-back-to-square-one/ http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/kashmir-back-to-square-one/ The terror attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir), which killed dozens of [...]
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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 [...]