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Saeed Naqvi
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The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi
    Spains defender Jose Luis Gaya Pena (C) celebrates scoring the opening goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 European qualifying round group B football match between Spain and Georgia at the Nuevo Vivero stadium in Badajoz on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | World Cup show spotlights Qatar as a nation apart

    American exceptionalism is not all that exceptional after all. The fact emerged in bold relief after the superbly...

    2 Jan 2023 12:02 AM IST

    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

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