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വിഎസ്സ് – ജൈവരാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിന്റെ വിപ്ലവാഗ്നി
കാൽനൂറ്റാണ്ട് മുമ്പാണ്. എറണാകുളം ജില്ലയിലെ ഒരു സമ്മേളനവേദിയിൽ വെച്ച് വിഎസ്സുമായി സംസാരിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു. അന്ന് പ്രതിപക്ഷനേതാവാണ്. കാസർഗോട്ടെ ചില പഞ്ചായത്തുകളിൽ മാരകരോഗം ബാധിച്ച മനുഷ്യരെയും മൃഗങ്ങളെയും കുറിച്ച്ശ്രീപദ്രെയുടെ ലേഖനങ്ങളും അതിനു കാരണമായ എൻഡോസൾഫാൻ കീടനാശിനിയുടെ ദീർഘനാളത്തെ ഉപയോഗവും ശ്രദ്ധയിൽപെടുത്തി. അന്ന് 'കേരളമോണിറ്ററി'ൽ വന്ന എന്റെ ലേഖനത്തെക്കുറിച്ചു പറയുകയും ചെയ്തു. തല്ക്കാലം [...]
VS – A Life of Conscience and Courage
First published in the The Hindu, 23 July 2025 V.S. Achuthanandan lived by a guiding principle: public service must be grounded in integrity. For him, ethics and politics were profoundly interlinked—one could not exist meaningfully without [...]
Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan: A Century of Struggles, A Political Life of Integrity
First Published in The Wire, 22 July 2025 V.S. Achuthanandan (VS) passed away on Monday afternoon, marking the end of a political era rooted in integrity and conviction. In a time when politics is driven by [...]
International Justice Or Selective Justice? Hope And Hypocrisy In A Rule-Based World Order
First published in Eurasia Review, 21 July 2025 On two separate fronts last week, the struggle over international justice revealed the deep contradictions of our times. In the United States, a federal judge blocked the enforcement [...]
പശ്ചിമേഷ്യ – ട്രംപിന് പ്രധാനം കച്ചവടം
Full text of Mathrubhumi article പശ്ചിമേഷ്യ അനിശ്ചിതത്വത്തിന്റെയും അപ്രതീക്ഷിതനീക്കങ്ങളുടെയും പല അദ്ധ്യായങ്ങൾ കണ്ട ഒരു സങ്കീർണമേഖലയാണ്. ഏറ്റവുമൊടുവിൽ നടന്ന ഇസ്രായേൽ-ഇറാൻ യുദ്ധവും അമേരിക്കൻ വ്യോമാക്രമണവും പരമ്പരാഗതസംഘർഷങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് വ്യത്യസ്തമാകുന്നത് യുദ്ധലക്ഷ്യങ്ങളും യുദ്ധതന്ത്രങ്ങളും അമേരിക്കൻ ഭരണകൂടത്തിന്റെ പുതിയ വിദേശനയതാല്പര്യങ്ങളുമായി ചേർന്നുപോകുന്നു എന്നത്കൊണ്ടാണ്. "അമേരിക്ക-മുമ്പിൽ" എന്ന ട്രംപിന്റെ പ്രമാണവാക്യം അടിവരയിടുന്നത് യുദ്ധത്തിനായാലും [...]
All We Seldom Imagine: Women’s Life-Worlds Unveiled
First published in Eurasia Review, 31 January 2025 Films that explore the alienation of women amidst the frenetic pace of life carry a deep impact, reflecting the universal human yearning for connection, love and belonging. These [...]
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Russia, U.S. and the Churning Arctic Geopolitics
First Published in Eurasia Review, 18 June 2021The Arctic geopolitics has become one of the strategic policy planks of big powers. This has been reflected in the separate statements issued by the Russian President Vladimir Putin [...]
Italian Marines Case: From Setbacks to Settlement
Published in Eurasia Review, 13 June 2021. An earlier version had appeared in Sri Lanka Guardian and the South Asia Analysis GroupIn less than two days after the return of the 45-year-old Kerala expat, Becks Krishnan, [...]
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 [...]
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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Trumponomics: Is Post-Fordism on Reverse Gear?
KM SEETHI Published in Countercurrents, 14 September 2018; also in William Bowels Info, 14 September 2018 https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/14/trumponomics-is-post-fordism-on-reverse-gear/ (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) US President Donald Trump has been speaking with hyperbole, over the [...]
Bolstering Nepal-China Connectivity: Kathmandu goes beyond a Zero-sum Game in South Asia
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 9 September 2018. https://countercurrents.org/2018/09/09/bolstering-nepal-china-connectivity-kathmandu-goes-beyond-a-zero-sum-game-in-south-asia/ Nepal and China have made a significant step in bilateral relations by finalizing the text of the protocol to the proposed agreement that would help facilitate [...]
2+2 Dialogue = Withering Away of India’s ‘Strategic Autonomy’?
K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 6 September 2018 The outcome of the 2+2 Dialogue between the Foreign and Defence Ministers of India and the United States held in New Delhi is on expected lines. It is [...]