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Russia, U.S. and the Churning Arctic Geopolitics
First Published in Eurasia Review, 18 June 2021The Arctic geopolitics has become one of the strategic policy planks of big powers. This has been reflected in the separate statements issued by the Russian President Vladimir Putin [...]
Italian Marines Case: From Setbacks to Settlement
Published in Eurasia Review, 13 June 2021. An earlier version had appeared in Sri Lanka Guardian and the South Asia Analysis GroupIn less than two days after the return of the 45-year-old Kerala expat, Becks Krishnan, [...]
Lakshadweep: Redlines of Identity, Security and Governance
First Published in Eurasia Review, 7 June 2021. Full version appeared in Global South Colloquy, 7 June 2021 Even as the issues pertaining to Lakshadweep have been brewing for months and attempts are underway [...]
Simmering Discontent in Lakshadweep: Narratives and Reality
First published in Eurasia Review on 1 June 2021. An extended version has appeared in Global South Colloquy, 1 June 2021.“One cannot but find the emerging situation in Lakshadweep Archipelago very bizarre, unheard in the life-world [...]
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 [...]
Current Affairs
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2+2 Dialogue = Withering Away of India’s ‘Strategic Autonomy’?
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 6 September 2018 The outcome of the 2+2 Dialogue between the Foreign and Defence Ministers of India and the United States held in New Delhi is on expected lines. It is [...]
‘New’ Kerala: From ‘Hortus Malabaricus’ to the ‘Gadgil Report’
‘New’ Kerala: From Hortus Malabaricus to the Gadgil Report K.M. Seethi ‘Dutch treat’ and ‘Dutch courage’ are (often informal and sometimes carrying a pejorative connotation) referred to the two specific instances of how people find themselves [...]
Dreams of a ‘New Kerala’: Crisis as Opportunity
Dreams of a ‘New Kerala’: Crisis as Opportunity K.M. Seethi Written for The Woke Journal The South Indian State of Kerala is now in the midst of a paradigm-reassessment in the wake of floods and landslides [...]