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Saeed Naqvi
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The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi
    Security personnel keep vigil during a two-hour relaxation in the curfew imposed by administration in wake of possible communal flare-up over controversial remarks by two now-suspended BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammad, at Bhaderwah in Doda district, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    The Prophet stir: If communalism hurtles at velocity, where’ll it...

    Has the RSS & BJP plugged their ears so firmly that Atal Behari Vajpayee’s whisper doesn’t reach them: -"We cannot...

    17 Jun 2022 1:41 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    A forgotten story of 1971: When India’s frigate, helicopters, troops...

    Sadly, the successful intervention has been forgotten, possibly because it was overshadowed by the bigger Bangladesh war...

    30 May 2022 6:58 AM IST

    Smoke rises from an air defence base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa as world leaders decried the start of Russian invasion that could cause massive casualties and topple Ukraines democratically elected government. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Sanctions hit Europe as US wants it weak: Putin adviser

    The re-emergence of Russia with the help of friends who don’t want Western hegemony, is unacceptable to the West

    11 May 2022 12:36 AM IST

    Bulldozers being used to remove illegal structures during a joint anti-encroachment drive by NDMC, PWD, local bodies and the police, in the violence-hit Jahangirpuri area, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)Opinion
    Jahangirpuri kills Ramzan spirit: Id will be observed, but not...

    The weaker the intellect, the greater the tendency to deviate from fact and logic into miracle and magic

    28 April 2022 11:57 PM IST

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Can Imran do in Pakistan what Erdogan did in Turkey?

    Anti-Americanism is a sure-fire electoral trick in a Muslim country that nurses a deep grievance against the US

    18 April 2022 12:45 AM IST

    U.S. President Joe Biden. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | From Iraq 1991 to Ukraine, America’s decline evident

    The anxiety about China’s rise is now being replaced by something much more complex - the Sino-Russian embrace

    31 March 2022 11:27 PM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Is BJP turning into Congress led by Sardar, minus Nehru?

    What gave BJP winning numbers was its secular, economic measures — rations, cash, money for housing. Is this not some...

    17 March 2022 11:46 PM IST

    Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Biblical saying revisited: He who wins shall lose...

    As perceptions supersede reality in how international affairs are played today, Ukraine has, as predicted, led to a huge...

    4 March 2022 3:13 AM IST

    In this file photo, singer Lata Mangeshkar laughs at the launch of her hindi music album Saadgi or Simplicity, on World Music Day, in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | A monochromatic wasteland cannot create another Lata...

    Lata Mangeshkar’s passing away does end an epoch but her music will remain part of the air generations will breathe

    21 Feb 2022 6:56 AM IST

    A girl holds a sign during a protest against US military involvement with Russia over Ukraine during a rally in Times Square, New York, on February 5, 2022. (AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Ukraine doesn’t expect invasion; but Biden, Boris...

    The image of the Western alliance in lockstep, ready to go for Mr Putin’s jugular, isn’t borne out by the facts on...

    7 Feb 2022 2:16 AM IST

    The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. (AP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Moscow’s brief foray doused Kazakh turmoil, hasn’t...

    I run my eyes with wonder because the turbulence is totally incompatible with the image of serenity etched on my mind

    23 Jan 2022 1:37 AM IST

    Mikhail Gorbachev (Twitter)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | Wasn’t world a better place in middle of the Cold War?

    My memory of the events three decades ago is of a personal nature as I was the only journalist who interviewed Mikhail...

    10 Jan 2022 1:39 AM IST

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