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Saeed Naqvi
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The writer is a senior journalist and commentator based in New Delhi
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AFP)Opinion
    Saeed Naqvi | America's dream world order needs Russia, Europe to be...

    Lord Ismay, Nato's first secretary-general, had succinctly outlined the alliance's purpose: to keep the Soviet Union out...

    19 Dec 2022 9:13 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...

    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)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

    14 Aug 2022 12:12 AM IST

    NewsOpinion
    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

    NewsOpinion
    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)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 Nato...

    2 July 2022 11:08 PM IST

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