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Imran Khan’s Next Innings: Bowling Alone?
K.M. SEETHI First Published in Global South Colloquy, 26 June 2020 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has again a wrong ball in his hand which will surely hit headlines with fiddly pay-offs. The news that the [...]
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 [...]
Mandir-Masjid Battle in Ayodhya: A Historic Verdict
http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/mandir-masjid-battle-in-ayodhya-a-historic-verdict/ K.M.Seethi First Appeared in the Global South Colloquy, 9 November 2019 The Ayodhya verdict of the Supreme Court is no doubt ‘inevitable’ in ending the long drawn out battle between ‘beliefs’ and ‘facts.’ While categorically [...]
The Making of Nuclear Disasters: “Chernobyl”
KM SEETHI “Chernobyl”—the five-part miniseries—has created sensation across the world, with a record number of viewers. It was screened on HBO and Sky Atlantic in May-June, and the last episode was on 3 June. It is [...]
Current Affairs
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Modi’s Politics of ‘Soft Power’ in times of Hard Realities of the Indian Diaspora
K.M. Seethi First Published in Countercurrents, 22 January 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/22/modis-politics-of-soft-power-in-times-of-hard-realities-of-the-indian-diaspora/ Even as the general elections are round the corner, the Narendra Modi Government makes it a point to use religion and culture as effective tools to sustain [...]
‘Hartal Raj’ under the Sangh Hegemony
‘Hartal Raj’ under the Sangh Hegemony KM SEETHI Image Credit: AFP First Published in Countercurrents, 4 January 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/04/hartal-raj-under-the-sangh-hegemony/ Kerala still appears to have been languished in a self-imposed prison of hartals in spite of all [...]
Critical International Relations Theory: ‘Subversive’ Historicist Tradition
Robert Cox (1926-2018) Remembered K. M. Seethi First Published in Countercurrents, 2 November 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/11/02/historicizing-international-relations-theory-robert-cox-remembered/ http://ppesydney.net/tributes-to-robert-w-cox/ Robert Cox is a scholar-extraordinary in the discipline of International Relations (IR) His writings continued to inspire scholars in both [...]