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Saeed Naqvi
About the AuthorSaeed Naqvi
The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | America’s dream world order needs Russia, Europe to be...

    A change in the world order means gains and losses. The United States and the West will, sooner or later, lose their...

    19 Dec 2022 8:50 AM IST

    In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of Basij paramilitary force in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Will the protests compel Iranian regime to begin...

    When Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei turns up in Isfahan, Iran’s city of culture and learning, and delivers...

    5 Dec 2022 8:51 AM IST

    A file photo of US President Joe Biden (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Unwounded in midterms, will Biden explore Ukraine peace?

    America’s electorate had been “willing to wound” President Joe Biden in the midterm elections, but...

    20 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

    Britains Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak attends a news conference addressing the governments response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, inside 10 Downing Street in London. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Children of Macaulay go global with Sunak’s rise

    Had Macaulay manifested himself by some miracle in the Calcutta of the 1950s and 1960s, he would have considered himself...

    6 Nov 2022 10:13 PM IST

    Muslim women gather to participate in a march against banning Muslim girls wearing hijab from attending classes at some schools in Karnataka, in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Hijab in Iran & India: Some enlightenment for SC judges

    To beat Internet restrictions in Iran, America provided the “Liberation Technology” movement of the Obama...

    24 Oct 2022 3:18 AM IST

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    Saeed Naqvi | When I met the Queen & Philip in Delhi in 1983

    My only meeting with Queen Elizabeth II was when she conferred an MBE on Harry Miller, a working-class Welshman who had...

    25 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Mikhail Gorbachev. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Gorby’s model: 1980s’ Sweden as socialism was being...

    “The world was a better place during the Cold War”, I said. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev put his head back...

    9 Sept 2022 12:03 AM IST

    Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | The ‘Satanic’ furies: A look at the genesis

    Hindu consolidation against one community can easily mutate into consolidation against the biggest minority

    28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

    On the midnight of 15 August 1947, India came into existence. (Photo: AFP/AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Why freedom came early: In August 1947, not June 1948

    Instead of August 15, 1947, our Independence Day could well have been June 30, 1948. That was the hurried decision of...

    14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

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    Saeed Naqvi | Walk the talk on ‘atma nirbharta’: Need new culture...

    Isn’t it a shame that champions of “atma nirbharta” (self-sufficiency) still depend on the old...

    31 July 2022 12:06 AM IST

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    Saeed Naqvi | North vs South: For Muslims, the experience is wholly...

    In the North, manufactured daily incidents keep communalism on a continuous simmer and folks huddle and wonder what the...

    20 July 2022 7:14 AM IST

    A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Most US allies are getting tired of a prolonged war in...

    That Russia was consistently -'provoked-' has been clear as daylight since 1998 when the US Senate voted in favour of...

    3 July 2022 12:13 AM IST

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