Recent Articles
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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 [...]
Redlines In Kabul: Post-9/11 Promises And Predicament – OpEd
First Published in Eurasia Review, 11 September 2021; also posted in GSC Dossier, 11 Sep 2021 The 9/11 terrorist attacks had marked a defining moment in international relations. Even as the world community remembers its horrific [...]
Current Affairs
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Pakistan: Still ‘Under Increased Monitoring’ of FATF
K.M. Seethi First published in South Asia Analysis Group (Paper 6761, March 3, 2021) in arrangement with the Sri Lanka Guardian (March 3, 2021) and the Indian Defence Review (March 3, 2021)There is a great deal [...]
Military coup in Myanmar: ‘Garrison State’ back to dismantle democracy?
Fears of a military takeover in Myanmar came true in the early hours of 1 February when the powerful army resorted to a series of measures which included detention of the State Counsellor Aung San Suu [...]
Land jihad? The reality of land scam in Jammu and Kashmir
As the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) went to its first District Development Council (DDC) polls on 28 November 2020, several politicians, bureaucrats, law and order officials, businessmen and other beneficiaries of the [...]
Global South Colloquy
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Modi 2.0: India under ‘Charismatic Authoritarianism’?
K.M.Seethi First Published in Global South Colloquy, 27 May 2019 Read More http://globalsouthcolloquy.com/modi-2-0-india-under-charismatic-authoritarianism/ Also @ Countercurrents, 27 May 2019 https://countercurrents.org/2019/05/modi-2-0-india-under-charismatic-authoritarianism The ultra-Right BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) resounding victory in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in [...]
Countercurrent
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The Higher Education Commission of India Act, 2018
A Requiem for the University Grants Commission K.M.SEETHI First Published by Countercurrents, 1 July 2018 (https://countercurrents.org/2018/07/01/a-requiem-for-ugc/) If the Modi Government’s first year of its rule was marked by the burial of an important institution of national [...]
An IR Scholar with Practical Wisdom
An IR Scholar with Practical Wisdom – Prof K.R. Singh (1932-2018) Remembered KM SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 26 June 2018 There are not many International Relations (IR) scholars in India who can make a reasonable [...]
Kashmir in a dense cauldron of uncertainty
Kashmir in a dense cauldron of uncertainty K.M. SEETHI First Published in Countercurrents, 20 June 2018 Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) politics has once again entered a cycle of uncertainty following BJP’s decision to pull out of [...]