Mainstream Weekly

‘West is West': New American Protectionism and the Indian IT Sector

K M Seethi — 2010-11-10T15:47:50Z

Globalisation is often understood as a process that is identical with liberalisation or the opening up of the local and national borders to the global market. But the process as it has been underway is much more complex than this simple or mechanical linkage between globalisation and ‘open door'. Even as there has been very significant liberalisation in recent years, this has been paralleled by the continuation or even the intensification of protectionism in some countries, including the (…)

- 2010

M.N. Vijayan : The Scholar Who Knew Too Much

K M Seethi — 2007-10-30T23:29:02Z

Professor M.N. Vijayan—a Leftist scholar of great repute, an incisive writer and orator, a social critic and an unyielding political activist which Kerala has ever seen—is now history. Vijayan died at a crucial time when critiquing of the mainstream Left has been seen as ‘game-plans' of the much-reviled ‘media syndicate' in Kerala. But long before the CPI-M unleashed its orchestrated campaign against him, M.N. Vijayan had proved himself to be a ‘dissenter-extraordinary' which not many people (…)

- October 27, 2007