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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 [...]
Michael Brecher, India and International Relations (IR)
First appeared in Eurasia Review, 30 January 2022, and The Wire, 31 January 2022 PDF Version KM SEETHI-ER-Jan 2022- Michael Brecher India and International RelationsWalking down the corridors of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) [...]
Specters Of Communal Frenzy: Will ‘The Desert Become A Garden’?
First in Eurasia Review, 29 December 2021 “I am terribly afraid of my identity as a minority Christian in my own homeland and the fear is more horrible than anything else,” according to a Delhi-based scholar [...]
General Bipin Rawat Remembered
First Published in Eurasia Review, 10 December 2021 India mourns the unexpected loss of General Bipin Rawat—India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)—his wife and other defence personnel who died after an Indian Airforce helicopter (Mi-17VH) [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]