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The things I learned with Raghu Rai

Saeed Naqvi Raghu and I entered the portals of The Statesman, New Delhi, in the same year, 1964-65. A paradox attended his adoration for his elder brother Paul, tall with strong features, a thoughtful photographer, because his admiration was tinged with sibling rivalry, not vicious but competitive, mimicking. When he entered The Statesman, two features about him stood out – a rugged face on a tall frame and a penetrating...

Did Netanyahu mislead Trump on Iran's fire power?

Saeed Naqvi I would never have expected the liberal right-wing, Israel-friendly news magazine, The Economist, to have on its cover a headline in large fonts – Advantage Iran. There is now a willingness in the ruling class circles to accept Iran’s upper hand in a conflict with Israel (and the US). This contradicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's (Also called Bibi) persistent sales pitch to Trump that a joint ...

Did Netanyahu mislead Trump on Iran's fire power?

Saeed Naqvi I would never have expected the liberal right-wing, Israel-friendly news magazine, The Economist, to have on its cover a headline in large fonts – Advantage Iran. There is now a willingness in the ruling class circles to accept Iran’s upper hand in a conflict with Israel (and the US). This contradicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's (Also called Bibi) persistent sales pitch to Trump that a joint ...

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Mark Tully and the BBC radio were synonymous

Saeed Naqvi In the front seat, with the driver, was Mark Fineman of the Los Angeles Times, when their car was stopped at an improvised toll barrier outside Lord Krishnan’s town, Mathura. “Mark”, an Indian reporter in the rear seat shouted. “Tell him you are a journalist and he will let you go.” The toll keeper had heard the name, Mark. His eyes lit up. He waved to his friends who were smoking bi...

Winners and losers In Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Saeed Naqvi What is the urgency driving Donald Trump to push his Gaza peace plan, even by dishonest means if necessary? In his eagerness to bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump resorted to subterfuge, straightforward knavery. Even more compelling than his yen for the Nobel was the pressure of global public opinion, which chastises the US collaborating with Israel’s unspeakable brutality, the genocide of Gaza, frame by frame on live T...

West will lose power but not without creating a mess

Saeed Naqvi President James Monroe must have turned in his grave at the Monroe Doctrine, named after him, being desecrated by the rank outside powers, China and Russia. The two are standing four square behind Venezuela strongman Nicolas Maduro, even as the US is embarking, for the umpteenth time, on an audacious regime change operation in Caracas. The Monroe Doctrine was designed to keep outside powers from what the US considers its backya...

Ukraine, Gaza wars will end with a bang, not a whimper

Saeed Naqvi Ukraine and Gaza are TV serials streaming interminably on our screens because the authors do not know how to script the final scene. The general drift of the story is known, but not the end. The end to the Gaza war is in perpetual delay because both the US and Israel are embarrassed by admitting that global exceptionalism for one and regional exceptionalism for the Jewish state ring hollow with global power shift...

Ukraine, Gaza wars will end with a bang, not a whimper

Saeed Naqvi Ukraine and Gaza are TV serials streaming interminably on our screens because the authors do not know how to script the final scene. The general drift of the story is known, but not the end. The end to the Gaza war is in perpetual delay because both the US and Israel are embarrassed by admitting that global exceptionalism for one and regional exceptionalism for the Jewish state ring hollow with global power shifting rapidly...

Khamenei has no links with India, but Khomeini did with Barabanki, UP

Saeed Naqvi An implausible story making the rounds on social media has its origins in an extraordinary initiative launched by the External Affairs Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Foreign Secretary Jagat Mehta in 1979 when New Delhi’s relations with Iran suddenly evaporated with the fall of the Shah and the Ayatollah’s ascent to power in Tehran. Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revol...

Khamenei has no links with India, but Khomeini did with Barabanki, UP

Saeed Naqvi An implausible story making the rounds on social media has its origins in an extraordinary initiative launched by the External Affairs Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Foreign Secretary Jagat Mehta in 1979 when New Delhi’s relations with Iran suddenly evaporated with the fall of the Shah and the Ayatollah’s ascent to power in Tehran. Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revol...

Is Trump's Gaza Riviera plan ploy to usurp strip’s oil deposits

Saeed Naqvi It quite beats me that President Donald Trump is willing to go thousands of miles across the oceans to empty Gaza of Palestinians and take it over to develop the seafront as a Riviera. “Beautiful, beautiful,” he said smacking his lips. The Sunday Essay He will be poaching in the land promised by the Bible exclusively for Jews. Well, Miriam Adelson, Billionaire-owner of Las Vegas Sands, a Jewish philanthropis...

Who won the Israel-Hamas war?

Saeed Naqvi There is a growing school of thought led by the US, that the West is fighting with its back to the wall in West Asia and Ukraine not to obtain victories in these theatres but to protect Western hegemony now in free fall. All eyes are on Trump. How will he cope with this predicament - by erecting safety nets to cushion this fall or by making fortress America great again, lapped by the two oceans? The latter course implies le...

Syria regime change shifts focus from Gaza, Ukraine conflicts

Saeed Naqvi “Assad has fled his country. His protector Russia was not interested in protecting him any longer.” This is the observation of President-elect Donald Trump on the events in Syria. How will these words echo with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fighting with his back to the wall in Ukraine? If Russia can drop Assad, will Trump keep an albatross around his neck? Behind The News Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, l...

Syrian regime change shifts focus from Gaza, Ukraine

Saeed Naqvi “Assad has fled his country. His protector Russia was not interested in protecting him any longer.” This is the observation of President-elect Donald Trump on the events in Syria. How will these words echo with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fighting with his back to the wall in Ukraine? If Russia can drop Assad, will Trump keep an albatross around his neck? Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, literally fighting with ...

Post Gaza query: Israel In new world order minus the hegemon?

Saeed Naqvi When the dust settles on the Israel-Gaza war, Israel will be confronted with an existential question: should it redesign itself to harmonize with the region and beyond, or continue in old, exceptional ways? The exclusive Israeli-style vengeance witnessed in the 51 days of bombardment, a jaw for a tooth, was possible only with the US hegemon standing four-square behind all of Israel’s actions. The Sunda...

Why Putin will not attend G20; Will Xi Jinping?

Saeed Naqvi It was known that President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20, but will Xi Jinping attend? Let me take up Putin first: Putin did not attend the Bali Summit last November. The reasons that kept him away from that meeting have not gone away. Why then would he have acted differently on this occasion? Sunday Story Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, attended in his place. When he got up to speak, parti...

If you make Imran Khan impossible, you make the Army rule inevitable

Saeed Naqvi Liberal democracy, the one that is yoked to capitalism, already in hopeless disrepair worldwide, received another drubbing next door in Pakistan. With innovative audacity, the establishment attempted to play Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. The Prince, in this case, has been locked up in jail. It happened like this. The Pakistan Cricket Control Board produced a video clip on the history of Pakista...

Changing global equations in the aftermath of the Ukraine war

Saeed Naqvi The Ukraine war has already yielded one of its most important outcomes even though the Western media does not dwell on it with enthusiasm. It is now confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that US hegemony has been irreversibly replaced by a multi-polar world. G7 is a grouping in decline; BRICS is the expanding reality. In this altered order, nations are busy consolidating their slots. The Turkish President, Recc...

How Muslims in Mandela’s cabinet Outgrew their religious identity

Saeed Naqvi When a school invited me for a talk on Mandela Day last week, accompanied by my TV interview with Madiba, as he was affectionately called, I was transported back to one of the most exciting assignments I had done – the end of Apartheid in South Africa in February 1990. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of the Soviet Union. This, in its wake, unfroze conflicts across the globe which had ...

India has to maintain its policy of strategic autonomy at any cost

Saeed Naqvi The passing away of Subhash Chakravarty last month has not been much noticed because Subhash or Dada, as some of us called him, as a long-time chief of the Bureau of The Times of India did not have the exposure of, say, a Kuldip Nayar. More than his readers, fellow journalists would remember him. He was more of a newshound than a popular writer. Editors got hooked on him because of the vast quantities of informa...

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