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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 [...]
The Arctic Council: future scenarios for the international forum
What is the importance of the Arctic Council in resolution of today's problems? The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and the Information and Analytics Center of the Project Office for the Development of the Arctic (PORA) [...]
Beyond the Udaipur Killing Lies the Spectre of Blasphemy. It’s Time to Banish the Ghost
First published in The Wire on 9 July 2022 The ghastly killings of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Udaipur, and Umesh Kolhe in Amravati have sent shock waves across the country. Lal was hacked to death by Riyaz Attari [...]
What India must do to protect its ties with the Islamic world
First published in Indian Express, 11 June 2022 India’s diplomatic dilemma over the outrage from the Muslim countries — in the wake of remarks on the Prophet by two BJP leaders, one of whom has been [...]
Religion and Diplomacy: India’s Higher Stakes
First published in Eurasia Review, 8 June 2022 Religion in many societies is a veritable powder keg, and any inept handling of issues related to faith has tricky implications for social and political life, as much [...]
The Ukraine War: Russia Runs Roughshod Over International Law
First published in Eurasia Review, 15 March 2022 The war in Ukraine still keeps the world on tenterhooks, with the humanitarian crisis getting worse after 18 days. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February [...]
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 [...]