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

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

Saeed Naqvi | A forgotten story of 1971: When India's frigate,...

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

30 May 2022 6:58 AM IST

The Ukraine story will certainly take a turn once the identity of senior Western officials, generals and mercenary groups at Azov are revealed. (Representational Image/ AP)

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