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May 21, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #Kashmirceasefire, #MehboobaMufti, #PMModi, #rajnathsingh, #Ramadan, kashmir

Ramadan Ceasefire In Kashmir Meaningless If Media War Continues

I have never seen the electronic media so totally defiant of the BJP government. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s avowed intention

Editorial World

May 11, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #IranNucleardeal, #PresidentTrump, #Saudi, Israel, Syria, US

Record For US President: Tears Multilateral Deal Then Publicly Endorses Torture

In the Trump multiplex, three shows are on simultaneously. First, the stages between the announcement of withdrawal from the deal

Editorial

May 4, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #BJP, #Congress, #Gowda, #JDS, #Karnatakaelections, #Karnatakapolls, #Kumaraswamy, #Siddaramaiah, #Yeddyurappa

Winners May Be Losers In Karnataka’s Catch 22 Endgame

It was what a film director would have described as a perfect take. “You are a beginner” says he, grinding

Editorial India

April 28, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #amitshah, #BJP, #Congress, #Karnatakapolls, #RahulGandhi, #Siddaramaiah, #Yedurappa

Book Ringside Seats For May 15 Post Poll Poker In Bengaluru

On May 15, when the Karnataka election results are announced, and the Congress, BJP and Deve Gowda’s JDS find themselves

Editorial World

April 19, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #Iran, #MiddleEast, #PresidentPutin, #PresidentTrump, #Russia, #UnitedStates, SaudiArabia, Syria

Syrian War Being Dragged On Basis Of Lies For Ulterior Reasons

If war begins in Syria, it will be on absolutely trumped up charges about the use of poison gas by

Editorial

April 5, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #HarshMander, #Hindu-Muslimharmony, #HinduMuslim, #RamchandraGuha

The Raging Guha-Mander Debate Deserves Wider Participation

You are Here: Tweet, Like, Share, Comment, Subscribe…be the Voice of Free Press! Copy Edited By Adam Rizvi, The India

Editorial

March 27, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #Iran, #Iraq, #MiddleEast, #NikkiHaley, #PresidentTrump, #UN, #WMD, SaudiArabia

Can Saud And Israel Drag Trump Into War With Iran?

The New York Times Op-Ed page headline said it all: “I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s

Editorial

March 17, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #BiplabkumarDeb, #BJP, #CPM, #ManikSarkar, #Tripuraelections

Tripura Ends CPM Tedium By Trading Decency For False Eldorado

The extraordinary feat the BJP has pulled off leaves one breathless. Which other Chief Minister in the country will have

Editorial

March 17, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #Hashimpura, #HinduMuslim, #RohingyaMuslims, India

Hashimpura, Srebrenica And Rohingyas in Rakhine: Similar And So Different

Incidents, similar in their chilling monstrosity, came to mind when I saw photographs of a row of Rohingya Muslim young

Editorial

February 17, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #Beatles, #Maharishi, #Mahirishimaheshyogi, #Miafarrow, #TheBeatles, Haridwar, Holi

Ashram Notebook 50 Years Ago: Beatles, Maharishi, Crows And Catapults

I received a call from an editor reminding me of my stay with the Beatles 50 years ago this February

Editorial

January 21, 2018 Saeed Naqvi

India is a multi ethnic, multi linguistic, multi religious “pluralistic society” outside the cow belt

Image courtesy: Indiafacts.org I missed out on the “tumult” these past weeks in circumstances which remind me of Shah Sarmad,

Editorial

December 30, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Congress, #Elections, #Gujarat, #HinduMuslim, #Muslims, #RahulGandhi

Mother Of All Paradoxes: Muslims Indispensable For The Hindutva Project

The Hindutva project would come down like melting ice cream if there were no Muslims, no Kashmir and no Pakistan

Editorial

December 12, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Ayodhya, #BabariMasjid, #defeatcommunalism, #Hindu-Muslimharmony, #Ramtemple

Three Mosques: “Muslim Generosity Would Electrify Hindu Masses”

The 25th anniversary of Babari Masjid demolition will rekindle debate: why was it demolished, historical wrongs, Mandal Commission inviting a

Editorial

December 7, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Elections, #left, #municipalelections, #Right, #Spain, AAP

How does AAP and movements like them go forward?

I probably move in the wrong circles, because nobody I know has a good word for the Aam Aadmi Party.

Editorial India

November 27, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Akbar, #BHU, #DilipKumar, #Gujaratriots, #Jaisi, #Khwaja, #MFHussain, #Mohani, #Mustafabad, #Padmavati, #RanaPratap, #RasoolanBai, #TIO, #UstadFaiyyazKhan

Padmavati Controversy: Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair

Padmavati, in a sense, is a neighborhood story. My village, Mustafabad, happens to be in Rae Bareli, which embraces numerous

India Opinion

November 14, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Lynching, #MehboobaMufti, #sharma, #Terrorism, #TheIndiaObserver, #TipuSultan, kashmir, Srinagar

Pinned Against The Wall: Losing The Argument In Srinagar

The arrival of Dineshwar Sharma, formerly of the Intelligence Bureau, as the Centre’s interlocutor in the troubled state, has clearly

Editorial India Opinion World

October 14, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #ANI, #BJP, #Congress, #CPM, #gujrat, #Hidu, #Hindu Mahasabha, #Hindu Raj, #hinduraj, #hindurashtra, #Karunakaran, #Keralla, #Krishna Temple, #MumbaiRiots, #Muslims, #Pandit madan Mohan, #RSS, #Sachar Committee, #Saffron, #Srikrishna Commission, #The India Observer, #TIO, #UP CM, #V N Gadgil, #Yogi, Adam Rizvi, Hindutva, India, Mountbatten, Narendra Modi, PTI, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Saeed Naqvi

Is Hindu Rashtra Unnecessary? India Became Hindu Raj in 1947

LIKE, SHARE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE. Follow us on Instagram/FB, Thanks. Copy Edited By Adam Rizvi: How indistinguishable the Congress ideologically is from

Editorial

October 14, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Iran, #RohingyaMuslims, SaudiArabia, Shiamuslims, Syria

Globalization Of Terror: Syrian Intelligence Sheds Light On Rohingya Exodus

Evidence of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state since the 7th century is not accompanied by a narrative of harmony with

Opinion

September 29, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #AtalBihariVajpayee, #Barzani, #GeorgeWBush, #IraqiKurdish, #ISI, #Nourial-Maliki, #TheIndiaObserver, #Trump, Turkey

Referendum In Iraq’s Kurdish North Sets Cat Among Pigeons

Iraqi Kurdish region’s planned referendum on September 25 for independence has set the cat among the pigeons. Last minute efforts

India News

September 24, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #andolan, #Bhutan, #darjeeling, #GJM, #gorkhaland, #Kolkata, #MamtaBanerjee, #nepali, #rajnathsingh, bimalgurung

Gorkhaland Total Bandh Enters Fourth Month As Leaders Duck

Darjeeling, Thimpu, Gangtok, Siliguri are a tight cluster on any map even in a large Atlas. Because of the recent

Opinion

September 14, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #gaurilankesh

Needed A Non-Doctrinaire Left To Carry Gauri Lankesh Vision

Encouraged by the spontaneous outpouring of sympathy and resolve across the country after Gauri Lankesh’s murder, I began to ferret

Opinion

September 3, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #BeijingMoscow, #BRICS, #Indo-China, #US-Russia

BRICS Summit Against Backdrop Of Plummeting Washington-Moscow Relations

Two recent events will influence attitudes at the 9th BRICS summit at Xiamen, China, from September 3 to 5 –

Opinion

August 29, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #Lucknow, #OCIcard, #pakistanvisa, India

What Does This Story Say About The 70th Anniversary?

This is a true story. I am revisiting it with a purpose: so that it collides head on with the

India Opinion

August 19, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #amitshah, #Ayodha, #hindutava, #iushratjehan#ahmadpatel, #modi, #RahulGandhi, #TheIndiaObserver

Ahmad Patel Barely Survives To Keep Sonia’s Rahul Hopes Alive

It would be rank bad form to describe Ahmad Patel as a form of life under Sonia Gandhi’s furniture, because

India Opinion sports

August 12, 2017 Saeed Naqvi #cricket, #keshavmaharaj, #moeenali, #ranjitsinghji, India

From Moeen Ali to Ranji: Hindu-Muslim In Cricketing Diaspora

When he completed his hat-trick by trapping South Africa’s Morne Morkel Leg Before wicket in the third test match at