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

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

Saeed Naqvi | Syria is still in the eye of the storm even after 10...

The free run the US and regional allies like Saudi Arabia had to alter the ground realities in Syria ended when the...

9 April 2021 4:26 AM IST

Saeed Naqvi | Acknowledge potential of Pope-Sistani historic tryst

Pardon my Lucknow chauvinism, but the benighted city once had intimate links with the centre of Shia Islam, Najaf, in...

28 March 2021 4:06 AM IST

The Gandhis state of funk may have been enhanced last week by Gujarat where, contrary to the promise of 2017, the Congress has been beaten to a pulp by the BJP in the local body elections. (Photo: PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Gandhis have had it if Congress flops in May

As for the Congress Party (The House), senior members have already bolted and joined the BJP

13 March 2021 4:30 AM IST

US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, following campaign events in New Jersey. (AFP)

Only Walter Mitty can dream Afghan troop withdrawal before US election

The US involvement in Afghanistan has been a great tragedy

24 Oct 2020 11:54 AM IST

Senior Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad and other opposition lawmakers protest against the farm and labour bills at Parliament House in New Delhi. (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Whenever cornered, BJP says 'Eulalie' to opposition...

That's how the ruling party gets to enjoy so much legislative and executive leverage

27 Sept 2020 7:17 PM IST

Still from the movie Agraharathil Kazhutai. Source: iffigoa.org

Saeed Naqvi | How Congress fell between two stools and I lost Lucknow

I once prided my hometown of Lucknow as the world centre for satire, wit and an elegant inter-communal irreverence

12 Sept 2020 6:23 PM IST

Rahat Indori was five years old when the much loved poet Majaz died of a stroke after he was found on the freezing terrace of a country liquor shop in Lucknows Qaisar Bagh. Photo: Twitter

Saeed Naqvi | Rahat Indori, a theme for Bollywood with built-in lyrics

What will be Rahat's place in literature?

4 Sept 2020 4:42 PM IST

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (PTI)

Saeed Naqvi | Will Erdogan's Islamist play at Hagia Sophia rescue his...

A powerful anti-West Islamist party, Refah, or Welfare, took shape and spread like prairie fire

13 Aug 2020 7:48 PM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (AFP)

Saeed Naqvi | With cinema as guide, is conflict the destiny of India &...

Let's begin with Breaking with Old Ideas on China during Mao's Great Leap Forward

16 July 2020 5:24 PM IST