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The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi

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)

Saeed Naqvi | Will the protests compel Iranian regime to begin...

The Iran unrest began in September when 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in the morality police's custody

5 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Unwounded in midterms, will Biden explore Ukraine peace?

With this ambiguous verdict in hand, Mr Biden doesn't need an endless war in Ukraine to redeem himself

20 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

Rishi Sunak will take charge as Britains first Indian-origin Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

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 11:04 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 File Photo)

Saeed Naqvi | Hijab in Iran & India: Some enlightenment for SC judges

The minority factor aggravates the problem to an extent that Justice Hemant Gupta of the Supreme Court appears not to...

24 Oct 2022 3:21 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | RSS' Bhagwat and Muslims: Recalling Bhaurao Deoras'...

Muslims, traditionally a Congress vote bank, began to feel uncomfortable with the Congress. There was a reason

10 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Gorby's model: 1980s' Sweden as socialism was being...

Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform

9 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

Salman Rushdie (AP file photo)

Saeed Naqvi | The Satanic' furies: A look at the genesis

Rushdie and The Satanic Verses will encroach on the world's attention now and then indefinitely for political football

28 Aug 2022 12:15 AM IST

On the midnight of 15 August 1947, India came into existence. (Photo: AFP/AP)

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

14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

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

The culture of dependence on the former colonial masters to fill our foreign pages is all-pervasive

31 July 2022 12:10 AM IST

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 7:15 AM IST

A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

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 Nato...

2 July 2022 11:08 PM IST

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)

Saeed Naqvi | The Prophet stir: If communalism hurtles at velocity,...

Has the RSS & BJP plugged their ears so firmly that Atal Behari Vajpayee's whisper doesn't reach them:

17 Jun 2022 1:39 AM IST