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

Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Saeed Naqvi | Who remembers Rabuka, the man who seized power from 6L...

Today Rabuka, on his third spell as Prime Minister, is a household name

25 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

Moroccos forward #19 Youssef En-Nesyri (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal during the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter-final football match between Morocco and Portugal at the Al-Thumama Stadium in Doha on December 10. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | World Cup show spotlights Qatar as a nation apart

When all of the GCC was quaking at Iran's emergence, Qatar maintained very practical trade relation with Iran.

2 Jan 2023 12:23 AM IST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AFP)

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)

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