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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham, in Varanasi, Monday, Dec 13, 2021. (DC File Image)

Saeed Naqvi | Kashi Corridor: Would Ghalib, Ray & Bismillah recognise...

All rivers have a lore for people settled on their banks and beyond, but the Ganga is different because it is special to...

27 Dec 2021 3:34 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. (AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | After Putin trip, India closer to the poker table on...

Militancy gestating next door, in Afghanistan, and in the notice of closest friend America places New Delhi in an...

13 Dec 2021 3:58 AM IST

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi visiting US President Ronald Reagan at the White House. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | When Indian diplomacy left both Moscow & US annoyed

In Washington, the PM was persuaded that the decision to recognise the Polisario should be, well, delayed if not...

29 Nov 2021 2:53 AM IST

Terrorists cannot be trained with the fanciest weapons, pillowed with cash, drugged for violent killings and, after the assignment, expected to resume their lives as regular tax-paying citizens. Representational Image. (AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | Terror in post-US Afghan: What is New Delhi's take?

It was precisely to boost the FSA's war-making abilities that the CIA and the Pentagon created a budget that ran into...

6 Nov 2021 1:09 AM IST

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (PTI Photo)

Saeed Naqvi | To be or not to be Congress president, that is the...

Erasing public memory is a device in electoral politics which is given acceleration by television's magic

22 Oct 2021 2:17 AM IST

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | US doesn't really want to know why it lost in Kabul

The macabre headlines about US Marines urinating on a pile of dead Afghans made Page One in many newspapers

9 Oct 2021 1:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden meets in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (PTI Photo)

Saeed Naqvi | PM to return from US with global power play compass

The nuclear deal of 2015 conferred on Tehran the kind of legitimacy that was to have enabled it to balance power in the...

25 Sept 2021 6:44 AM IST

Far from being settled, Afghanistan is perilously poised. Yasif Nazari, 6, leans on a flag pole as he wears an Afghanistan military uniform as he listens to speakers at a rally to support the Afghan government Representational Image. (AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Clarity likely on Afghan situation after Sept. 16-17...

False flag action by one agent provocateur will invite a hundred dark analyses

9 Sept 2021 11:47 PM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden's end to US forever wars'...

What happened in Afghanistan was a process set into motion as early as the 1970s, where imperial interests were directly...

29 Aug 2021 3:24 AM IST

The Kanpur riots yielded more sociological narratives of a different kind. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | From Warsaw to Kanpur: A tale of 2 cities

Parallels between the two episodes in Warsaw and Kanpur have risks

13 Aug 2021 2:14 AM IST

The Americans will obviously have plans to keep an eye on the Bagram airbase too. Represenatational Image. (Twitter)

Saeed Naqvi | Will air attacks rise after US troops leave Af, Iraq?

The Taliban are pretending to throw a ginger fit should Turkey deploy troops to protect the airport

2 Aug 2021 2:29 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Recalling Iraq's tragedy in 2003 & statesmanship of PM...

Worldview India's journalists remember April 2003 for the kind of journalism Indians haven't practised before or since

23 April 2021 12:00 AM IST