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ട്രംപിന്റെ വരുംകാലം, ലോകം
First Published in Madhyamam Weekly 27/01/2025 വൈറ്റ് ഹൗസ് വീണ്ടും ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപിന് വേണ്ടി വാതിൽ തുറന്നു. അധമമായ ഒന്നാണ് രാഷ്ട്രീയ പ്രവർത്തനം എന്ന് നാൽപ്പതു വർഷങ്ങൾക്കു മുമ്പ് വീമ്പിളക്കിയ ഒരാളായിരുന്നു അദ്ദേഹം. കഴിവുള്ളവർ നല്ല കച്ചവടം ചെയ്യുമെന്നും അന്ന് ട്രംപ് പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. ഇന്ന് രാഷ്ട്രീയം തന്നെയാണ് നല്ല [...]
Trump in White House: Is he set to cross redlines in international affairs?
First Published in The Wire, 24 January 2025 With Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, the world finds itself grappling with an era of brash proclamations and heightened geopolitical tensions, where each presidential decree oscillates [...]
Trump’s Greenland Strategy: Aiming For Higher Stakes In The Arctic?
First published in Eurasia Review, 22 January 2025 In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump declared: “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, [...]
MT Vasudevan Nair – The Writer Who Gave Voice to Kerala’s Soul
First Published in The Wire, 26 December 2024 M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Kerala’s literary genius and celebrated filmmaker, has passed away at the age of 91 in Kozhikode. His demise marks the end of an era for [...]
The Munambam Land Dispute, Mired in Legal, Religious, and Social Complexities
This is the full text (unedited) version of the article appeared in The Wire, 11 November 2024. The Wire article is a shortened version. The dispute over Waqf land in Munambam, Kerala, has become a minefield [...]
Trump 2.0 And The World Economy: The Challenges Of Protectionism And Unilateralism
First published in Eurasia Review, 7 November 2024 The re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 has set the stage for a significant shift in both American domestic and international policy. Returning to the White House in [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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The Bay of Bengal Community in times of Natural Disasters
The Bay of Bengal Community in times of Natural Disasters KM SEETHI First appeared in Countercurrents, 30 August 2018 4th BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) Summit is being held in [...]
Kerala Flood Disaster: The Continuing Saga of Coastal States’ Insecurity
Kerala Flood Disaster: The Continuing Saga of Coastal States’ Insecurity K.M.SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 23 August 2018 The flood disaster that struck the entire state of Kerala following the unprecedented monsoon has raised many questions [...]
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 [...]