Recent Articles
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Killings, Suppression and the Blasphemy Ruse: Pakistan’s Minorities Are Beleaguered
First Published in The Wire, 3 February 2022 The gruesome killing of a priest, William Siraj, in Peshawar cast a pall of fear and anger over Pakistan’s minority communities. The shocking incident is again a warning [...]
Michael Brecher, India and International Relations (IR)
First appeared in Eurasia Review, 30 January 2022, and The Wire, 31 January 2022 PDF Version KM SEETHI-ER-Jan 2022- Michael Brecher India and International RelationsWalking down the corridors of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) [...]
Specters Of Communal Frenzy: Will ‘The Desert Become A Garden’?
First in Eurasia Review, 29 December 2021 “I am terribly afraid of my identity as a minority Christian in my own homeland and the fear is more horrible than anything else,” according to a Delhi-based scholar [...]
General Bipin Rawat Remembered
First Published in Eurasia Review, 10 December 2021 India mourns the unexpected loss of General Bipin Rawat—India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)—his wife and other defence personnel who died after an Indian Airforce helicopter (Mi-17VH) [...]
‘Deserts’ Imagined/Reimagined: Reading Camels in the Sky – Review
First published in Eurasia Review, 10 November 2021 Desert travel writing tends to evoke feelings of excitement, enthusiasm and surprises. In an article in The Times Literary Supplement, Caroline Eden wrote that deserts “offer a cultural and [...]
Between Hunger and Poverty: Politics and Policies of Estimation
First published in Eurasia Review, 17 October 2021 Hunger and poverty are so intertwined that reports concerning one have implications for the other, and a palpable common factor is food security. The release of the Global [...]
Current Affairs
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‘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 [...]
Distress Signals from Colombo
Distress Signals from Colombo K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 30 October 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/10/30/distress-signals-from-colombo/ Sri Lanka has landed itself in an unexpected, unprecedented crisis with the President Maithripala Sirisena taking decisions having tricky political implications. Citing differences [...]