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Seasons Fade Into Memories – OpEd
Eurasia Review, 5 June 2023 The current state of the world’s bio-ecosystem begs immediate attention and demands acknowledgement of a crisis that reverberates on a grand scale. The magnitude of the environmental crisis today is of [...]
China’s Forays Into Antarctic Region Amid Growing Western Concerns – Analysis
Eurasia Review, 17 May 2023 Concerns over China’s expanding activities in the Polar regions seem to have grown with the recent reports of the construction of its new Antarctic station near the Ross Sea. The resumption [...]
Seafarers in Distress: The ‘Heroic Idun’ Episode
The Wire, 7 May 2023 Amid international media reports of a US-bound Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker being seized by Iran with 24 Indian crew members onboard, there was a silver lining from Abuja. A Nigerian court freed 26 [...]
‘NATOization’ Of The Arctic Theater: Implications Of Changing Nordic Strategy – Analysis
Eurasia Review, 10 April 2023 Finland’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance (NATO) is a significant game changer in European security architecture which has palpable implications for Arctic geopolitics and Nordic security. While Sweden’s application for NATO [...]
Beyond ‘Napoleonic Imperium’: Fallout Of The Ukraine War – OpEd
Eurasia Review, 23 February 2023 Even as the world is grappling with the horrendous effects of the year-long Ukraine war, Russia and the United States seem determined to keep the ball rolling—apparently in an unrelenting cold [...]
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 [...]
Current Affairs
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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 [...]
Global South Colloquy
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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 [...]
Countercurrent
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Farewell to INF Treaty: Setting Multilateralization for N-Person’s Game?
K.M. Seethi First Published in Countercurrents, 5 February 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/05/farewell-to-inf-treaty-setting-multilateralization-for-n-persons-game/ The Unites States withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1987) and the subsequent Russian decision to quit the regime generated considerable fears and anxieties [...]
National Awards: Ethics of Conferment and Politics of Selection
K.M. Seethi First Published in Countercurrents, 27 January 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/27/national-awards-ethics-of-conferment-and-politics-of-selection/?fbclid=IwAR1CPHVDvRR-TQ_DKE1Q7aSA_yAzIu7oE4ztjprJNtIfcNXOlpIctutkEsU As expected, the announcement of the national awards for 2019 again brought forth a storm of controversy in India. This time it has drawn special [...]
‘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 [...]