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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 [...]
Killings, Suppression and the Blasphemy Ruse: Pakistan’s Minorities Are Beleaguered
First Published in The Wire, 3 February 2022 The gruesome killing of a priest, William Siraj, in Peshawar cast a pall of fear and anger over Pakistan’s minority communities. The shocking incident is again a warning [...]
Current Affairs
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Contours of India’s Arctic Policy
Contours of India’s Arctic Policy It appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, 13 May 2021 India’s Arctic Policy (IAP), notified as a draft document in early January 2021, has come as a shot in the arm [...]
The Arctic Region in a Strategic Melting Pot
K.M. SEETHI Originally Published in Eurasia Review, 22 March 2021, available at https://www.Eurasiareview.com /22032021-the-arctic-region-in-a-strategic-melting-pot-analysis/ The Arctic region—the northernmost part of the Earth—has been the cynosure of global geopolitical interests since beginning of the 21st [...]
Holy shrine demolition in Pakistan: Beyond ‘Apology and Forgiveness’
KM SEETHI- SAAG March - 2021- Holy Shrine Demolition in Pakistan-PDF South Asia Analysis Group Paper No 6768 - 16 March 2021(SAAG in arrangement with Eurasia Review and Sri Lanka Guardian) “If you want to see [...]
Global South Colloquy
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Mandir-Masjid Battle in Ayodhya: A Historic Verdict
http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/mandir-masjid-battle-in-ayodhya-a-historic-verdict/ K.M.Seethi First Appeared in the Global South Colloquy, 9 November 2019 The Ayodhya verdict of the Supreme Court is no doubt ‘inevitable’ in ending the long drawn out battle between ‘beliefs’ and ‘facts.’ While categorically [...]
The Making of Nuclear Disasters: “Chernobyl”
KM SEETHI “Chernobyl”—the five-part miniseries—has created sensation across the world, with a record number of viewers. It was screened on HBO and Sky Atlantic in May-June, and the last episode was on 3 June. It is [...]
Trumponomics of ‘Smart Trade’: Unfair Trade Practices vis-à-vis China and India
K.M. Seethi First Published in Global South Colloquy, 2 June 2019 http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/trumponomics-of-smart-trade-unfair-trade-practices-vis-a-vis-china-and-india/ Is the world economy poised to enter the phase of what the Dutch trend-watcher Adjiedj Bakas called ‘Slowbalisation’? The trend forecasts say that the [...]
Countercurrent
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From the ‘Promised Land’ to the Land of Betrayals
From the ‘Promised Land’ to the Land of Betrayals KM SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 21 July 2018 Israel—once Palestine, the holy land of three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam—has been declared a mono-religious State with [...]
Limits to ‘Cultural Securitization’
Shashi Tharoor and Limits to ‘Cultural Securitization’ K.M. SEETHI First published in Countercurrents, 16 July 2018 A reference to ‘Hindu Pakistan’ by Shashi Tharoor, in a speech, sparked off another controversy across the media and political [...]
The Quest for ‘Zone of Peace’ in the Himalayas
Nepal’s Critical Engagements with India and China KM SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 5 July 2018 The tiny Himalayan State Nepal continues to be economically vulnerable, primarily because of its geopolitical status as a land-locked country. This [...]