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The Pen and the Poll Booth
First appeared in The Wire Some of Kerala’s most celebrated cultural voices—K. Satchidanandan, Sara Joseph and M.N. Karassery—have stepped onto the political stage to declare that two terms of Left governance in the state are enough [...]
Trade as Coercion: How U.S. Is Forcing India into an Unequal Deal
First appeared in Policy Circle The new India–United States trade framework is being presented as a diplomatic success. Headlines speak of American tariffs falling from 50 percent to 18 percent and of a new era of [...]
André Béteille (1934–2026): A Thoughtful Voice In Indian Sociology
First Published in Eurasia Review Indian sociology in the 1950s and 1960s was a discipline searching for direction. Much of its language was borrowed from colonial anthropology or from philosophical readings of tradition. Caste appeared in [...]
Michael Parenti and the Art of Seeing What Power Hides
First published in The Wire In the decades after the Second World War, American academia settled into a language of managerial reason, empirical caution, and institutional confidence. It was within this challenging intellectual climate that Michael [...]
Boiling Iran: Economic Collapse, State Violence, And The Threat Of Intervention
First appeared in Eurasia Review Iran is passing through one of the most dangerous moments since the revolution in the late 1970s. What began as economic distress has turned into nationwide unrest, and what started as [...]
The End of an Era and the Start of Uncertainty
First published in Eurasia Review, 1 January 2026 The first twenty-five years of the twenty-first century have been turbulent and unforgiving. Conflict, instability, and social strain have become continuing features of international life. As the world [...]
Current Affairs
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‘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 [...]
Redlines In Kabul: Post-9/11 Promises And Predicament – OpEd
First Published in Eurasia Review, 11 September 2021; also posted in GSC Dossier, 11 Sep 2021 The 9/11 terrorist attacks had marked a defining moment in international relations. Even as the world community remembers its horrific [...]
Global South Colloquy
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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 [...]
Military coup in Myanmar: ‘Garrison State’ back to dismantle democracy?
Fears of a military takeover in Myanmar came true in the early hours of 1 February when the powerful army resorted to a series of measures which included detention of the State Counsellor Aung San Suu [...]
Many Voices, Still Many Worlds
Writing on the feats and flaws of modern science way back in 1951, humanist writer and literary genius M. Govindan (1919-1989) brought in the story of al-Hameed—a landlord in Hyderabad who, over years, lost interest in [...]
Countercurrent
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Unlocking the India-Pakistan Dilemma : Twenty Years of ‘Lahore Declaration’ and Missed Opportunities
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 21 February 2019; also appeared in Global South Colloquy, 21 February 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/21/unlocking-the-india-pakistan-dilemma-twenty-years-of-lahore-declaration-and-missed-opportunities/ http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/unlocking-the-india-pakistan-dilemma/ Many treaties and agreements in international relations are the natural outcome of conflicts and wars between two [...]
Kashmir: Back to Square One?
K.M. SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 16 February 2019; also appeared in Global South Colloquy, 16 February 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/16/kashmir-back-to-square-one/ http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/kashmir-back-to-square-one/ The terror attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir), which killed dozens of [...]
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 [...]