Saeed Naqvi

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Saeed Naqvi
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Saeed Naqvi - September 2016
Born1940 [1]
Occupation(s)journalist, television commentator, interviewer
SpouseAruna Naqvi(1964-Current)
Children Farah Naqvi [2]

Saba Naqvi

Zeba Akhtar

Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer. He has interviewed world leaders and personalities in India and abroad, which appear in newspapers, magazines and on national television, remained editor of the World Report, a syndication service on foreign affairs, and has written for several publication, both global and Indian, including the BBC News , The Sunday Observer , The Sunday Times , The Guardian , Washington Post , The Indian Express , The Citizen and Outlook magazine. At the Indian Express, he started in 1977 as a Special Correspondent and eventually becoming, editor, Indian Express, Madras, (1979–1984), and Foreign Editor, The Indian Express, Delhi in 1984, and continues to writes columns and features for the paper. [3] [4] [5]

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Career

Saeed Naqvi started his journalist career as Staff Reporter with The Statesman , Delhi in 1964, later he became editor of the Sunday Magazine. During this period, in spring of '68, when The Beatles visited India, he along with fellow photographer, Raghu Rai filed new reports and photographs for newspapers. [6] [7] He stayed in the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram as a disciple to capture the story of The Beatles stay in Ashram, Rishikesh, Himalaya. He reported from the inside about the life and living of John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. [8]

As editor and producer, of WORLD REPORT, a weekly foreign affairs show on Doordarshan (the national network) called Worldview India, apart from a prime time international news and features series entitled It's A Small World (1997–1999) for Star TV. From 1986–1997 WORLD REPORT produced an international affairs series entitled World Report for Doordarshan, featuring interviews with major world leaders.[ citation needed ]

Thereafter it produced a series of programmes entitled Hamara Bharat (Our India) on India's syncretic culture. Saeed has been Editor, Foreign Editor, Foreign Correspondent for major Indian dailies – The Indian Express, The Statesman and written for a range of publications like New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Boston Globe and others.[ citation needed ]

During his long career, Saeed Naqvi has interviewed world famous leaders and politicians including Nelson Mandela, [9] Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Benazir Bhutto, Mohammad Najibullah, Hamid Karzai, Shimon Peres, Gorbachev [10] and more [11] [12] [13]

Famous Bollywood film director Kabir Khan assisted Saeed Naqvi. He worked for Naqvi as a cinematographer and travelled to many countries for documentary and interview shooting. [10] [9]

Author

His latest book is a literary work where he wrote a drama in English 'The Muslim Vanishes'. This book has been published by the penguin. The theme of the book became the topic of the discussion among the scholars. In this book, author imagine a society where Muslims abruptly vanished. [14] [15]

Lecture

Saeed Naqvi is giving talk at Tedx Talk JMI on 16th October, 2017. Saeed Naqvi at Tedx Talk.jpg
Saeed Naqvi is giving talk at Tedx Talk JMI on 16th October, 2017.

He has been called for lectures and talks by prestigious institutions, societies and clubs. He was invited by Columbia University in 2016 to talk about his book 'Being the Other: The Muslim in India'. [16] He delivered the 18th Narendran Memorial Lecture on ‘Saffron surge: can it be stopped’ at the Trivandrum Press Club on 18 August 2019. [17]

He was also given a Tedx Talk in Jamia Millia Islamia on 16 October 2017. [18]

Personal life

Saeed Naqvi is born and brought up in Mustafabad, Lucknow. [19] He studied at La Martinière College, Lucknow. [20]

Naqvi married to Aruna Naqvi [21] and has three daughters, journalist Saba Naqvi and writer Farah Naqvi [22] and Zeba Akhtar. [21] His mother is Atia Naqvi while his brother is Shanney Naqvi.[ citation needed ]

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Awards

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  2. ↑ Naqvi, Farah (27 May 2021). "What We Did When Our Government Collapsed: My Father Saeed Naqvi's COVID Story". The Wire.
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  5. ↑ "Shri Saeed Naqvi". Department of Education, Govt. of India. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009.
  6. ↑ "Hidden camera: Photographer Raghu Rai on how he sneaked into the ashram for a shot of the Beatles". Mint . 17 May 2008.
  7. ↑ "The spring of '68". Mint. 17 May 2008.
  8. ↑ "When India changed the course of The Beatles' lives forever". The Indian Express. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  9. 1 2 "'I've not met a more charismatic man than Mandela'". Rediff. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  10. 1 2 "'Ek Tha Tiger is my most political film'". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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  14. 1 2 "Review: 'The Muslim Vanishes' Is a Universal Plea for Empathy in Times of Apathy". The Wire. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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  21. 1 2 "Being the Other: The Muslim in India". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  22. ↑ "Book Launch 'In Good Faith' By Saba Naqvi".
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