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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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Vakkom Moulavi Matters Today?
Why Vakkom Moulavi Matters Today? Problems of Engaging Modernity and the Muslim Reform Movement in Kerala K.M. Seethi This article is written in commemoration of the 145th anniversary (28 December) of Vakkom Moulavi who played a [...]
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 [...]
Current Affairs
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The Global South in ‘Northern-led’ Order/Disorder: Reading the Baku Declaration and the CHOGM 2018 Communiqué
K.M. Seethi Countercurrents, 24 April 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/24/the-global-south-in-northern-led-order-disorder-reading-the-baku-declaration-and-the-chogm-2018-communique/ Two of the recent international documents concerning the future of the Global South should attract the attention of the foreign policy observers in India for several reasons. One is [...]
റോഹിൻഗ്യൻ അഭയാർത്ഥി പ്രശ്നം: അതിർത്തികളിൽ അരിച്ചും ഒഴുകിയും ജീവിക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യർ
റോഹിൻഗ്യൻ അഭയാർത്ഥി പ്രശ്നം: അതിർത്തികളിൽ അരിച്ചും ഒഴുകിയും ജീവിക്കുന്ന മനുഷ്യർ മാതൃഭൂമി ആഴ്ചപ്പതിപ്പ് ഏപ്രിൽ 2018 കെ. എം. സീതി രോഹിൻഗ്യൻ വംശജരുടെ അതിജീവനം വീണ്ടും അനിശ്ചിതത്തിലേക്കു നീങ്ങുന്നു. മ്യാന്മാറും ബംഗ്ലദേശും കഴിഞ്ഞ നവംബറിൽ ഒപ്പിട്ട കരാർ ഒരു ജലരേഖയായി മാറിക്കഴിഞ്ഞതായി ഐക്യരാഷ്ട്ര സംഘടനയുടെ തന്നെ മുതിർന്ന ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർ ഇപ്പോൾ [...]
A 2014 Project to Revive India’s Historical ‘Spice Route’ Remains a Non-starter
A 2014 Project to Revive India's Historical 'Spice Route': a Non-starter K.M.SEETHI Economic and Political Weekly (Web Exclusive) Vol. 53, Issue No. 10, 10 March 2018 (https://www.epw.in/engage/article/india-should-consider-project-mausam-more-seriously-order-counter-chinas-belt-and) While inaugurating the Kochi Metro in June 2017, Prime [...]