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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 [...]
Migration, Cultural Remittance, and the Social Landscape of Kerala
Migration, Cultural Remittance, and the Social Landscape of Kerala KM SEETHI Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/25765949.2023.2165010 The social landscape of Kerala—the southwest Indian state—has undergone significant changes in the last [...]
Human Mobility and Reverse Migration in Asia: Triggers and Travails
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Polity and Society Human mobility is an inherent feature of all societies, triggered by several factors that co-exist with diverse conditions determining the choice of people regarding the destination [...]
Islamist Outfit Masquerading under ‘Republic’ Banned in India
Published in Global South Colloquy and Eurasia Review Living in a pluralist society with a bit of courage and confidence is anything but comforting today. A major reason is the role of self-styled ‘agencies’ with ascriptive [...]
India’s Arctic policy regime and its geopolitical significance
First published in Policy Circle, 8 September 2022 India’s Polar policy has assumed considerable significance with the notification of its Arctic Policy early this year and the passing of the Indian Antarctic Law by the Indian [...]
Current Affairs
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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 [...]
Necropower and ‘Death as Political’ in Palestine
Necropower and ‘Death as Political’ in Palestine Published in Eurasia Review, 17 May 2021. Courtesy to Indian Express, 16 May 2021 where an abridged version had already appeared. This is an edited article of Eurasia Review. [...]
Global South Colloquy
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Beyond the Galwan valley: In Search of a ‘New Normal’ in India-China Relations
K.M. SEETHI First published in Global South Colloquy, 18 June 2020 The Galwan valley encounter between India and China, which took an unanticipated but a significant number of casualties on both sides, is certainly a major [...]
A ‘Testing Time’ for Ageing: Geronticide or Necropolitics?
KM SEETHI Published in Global South Colloquy/Countercurrents, 8 April 2020 With the Covid-19 proliferation taking on a dreadful speed, humanity is in the throes of an unprecedented breakdown. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) seems [...]
Health Security Beyond Borders: India’s Search for Partnership in Times of Pandemic
Health Security Beyond Borders: India’s Search for Partnership in Times of Pandemic K.M. Seethi Global South Colloquy, 16 March 2020 The regional entity in South Asia—South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC)—seems to have a new [...]
Countercurrent
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Why the Calamity in Kerala is a ‘National Disaster’?
Why the Calamity in Kerala is a ‘National Disaster’? KM SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents | 19 August 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/19/why-the-calamity-in-kerala-is-a-national-disaster/ The south Indian State of Kerala has been going through a calamity of unimaginable proportions following the [...]
India’s Emerging Role in the Indo-Pacific: Rise of Sub-imperialism?
India’s Emerging Role in the Indo-Pacific: Rise of Sub-imperialism? K.M.SEETHI First Published by Countercurrents, 2 August 2018 Is India sliding itself into the world capitalist centre as a ‘sub-imperialist’ country fulfilling the ‘responsibilities’ of the [...]
Pakistan Elections: Poised for Challenging “Political Innings” with Imran Khan
K.M. Seethi First Published by Countercurrents, 27 July 2018/ Global Research, 27 July 2018 The state of Pakistan is now poised for a change, as predicted by many in the context of the General Elections held [...]