K.M. Seethi
The air strikes in Balakot, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, by the Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets set in motion waves of jubilation in India and a deluge of anger and war cry in Pakistan. Launched in...
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 to have the armoury to legitimate the Darwinian dictum—“Survival of the Fittest.” Even the...
“Chinese party system, towards a paradigm shift”
Press
Release 26 February 2019
“The
Chinese political system is switching over to a new paradigm of party system
with non oppositional parties being allowed to participate in the management of
state affairs,” says Professor Zang Xiuling,...
The plight of refugees across the world continues to be as disheartening as it has been over decades. Even as nations and international institutions continue to acknowledge and honour the courage, determination and strength of the millions of displaced...
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The enduring conflict scenario in West Asia—at the heart of which is the Israel-Palestine issue—creates pangs of angst and pinpricks to many. The long-running question is if it could be resolved any time soon or...
“Dalit feminist question is at the core of debates in the Women’s movement in India,” says DU Historian and Feminist
“The greatest divide in the women's movement in India is the Dalit feminist question, whether it is issues of the...
We won’t be erased or airbrushed out of history. Even though there appears to be no life in anything resembling a vibrant antiwar movement, especially on college campuses, the endless wars the U.S. now fights go on with lives lost and...
K.M. Seethi
The Persian Gulf region has become a veritable powder keg with the United States taking a more aggressive position on Iran, while Saudi Arabia, UAE and other regional powers keep lining up behind Washington with an equally aggressive...
“Four decades of reform and opening up had catapulted China into the second largest economy and the second largest defence spender in the world, besides its appetite having changed from strategic guidelines of Deng Xiaoping’s ‘keep a low profile’...
on Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
When trying to interpret, understand and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive but intersecting models of how capitalism works....