Saeed Naqvi

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About Me

Saeed Naqvi: Saeed Naqvi has been a quintessential reporter and foreign correspondent for over four decades. He has travelled the length and breadth of India and visited over a hundred countries in pursuit of stories. He has covered most wars since the 1971 war with Pakistan which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh. Other wars covered include the Sir Lanka Civil War, 1971, Sino-Vietnam war, 1979, US bombing of Libya, 1986, the first coup in Fiji, 1987, Nicaragua war, 1989, Operation Desert Storm, 1991, US occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq, 2003, Syrian civil war, 2011. Saeed has interviewed world statesmen, like Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Muammar Qaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Benazir Bhutto, President Hamid Karzai, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, J.R. Jayawardene, President Hashemi Rafsanjani and scores of others. His writings, lecture tours and short films on India’s composite culture have been path breaking efforts, as have been his documentaries on Indian Peace Keeping Forces and the Indian diaspora in unexpected lands. His books are “Reflections of an Indian Muslims” and “The Last Brahmin Prime Minister” have been prescient. “Being The Other: The Muslim in India” published in July 2016.

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