Saeed Naqvi
{{short description|Indian journalist}}
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| spouse = Aruna Naqvi(1964-Current)
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Saba Naqvi
Zeba Akhtar
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.observerindia.com/cms/sites/orfonline/html/aboutus/profiles/saeednaqvi.html|title=Research Faculty – Mr. Saeed Naqvi|publisher=Observer Research Foundation}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2540181.stm|title=Muslim hopes and fears: Analysis|last=Naqvi|first=Saeed|date=December 2002|publisher=BBC News}}{{cite web|url=http://www.education.nic.in/cd50years/q/6j/BE/6JBE0501.htm|title=Shri Saeed Naqvi|publisher=Department of Education, Govt. of India|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417015218/http://education.nic.in/cd50years/q/6J/BE/6JBE0501.htm|archive-date=17 April 2009}}
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/17000630/Hidden-camera.html|title=Hidden camera: Photographer Raghu Rai on how he sneaked into the ashram for a shot of the Beatles|work=Mint|date=17 May 2008}}{{cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/16235409/The-spring-of-821768.html|title=The spring of '68|date=17 May 2008|work=Mint}} 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.{{Cite web |date=2022-01-18 |title=When India changed the course of The Beatles' lives forever |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/when-india-changed-the-course-of-the-beatles-lives-forever-7726376/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}
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 to 1997 WORLD REPORT produced an international affairs series entitled World Report for Doordarshan, featuring interviews with major world leaders.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
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|date=March 2024}}
During his long career, Saeed Naqvi has interviewed world famous leaders and politicians including Nelson Mandela,{{Cite web |title='I've not met a more charismatic man than Mandela' |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/ive-not-met-a-more-charismatic-man-than-mandela/20131206.htm |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Rediff |language=en}} Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Benazir Bhutto, Mohammad Najibullah, Hamid Karzai, Shimon Peres, Gorbachev,{{Cite web |title=Ek Tha Tiger is my most political film |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/7-days/ek-tha-tiger-is-my-most-political-film/cid/386921 |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Telegraph|location=India |language=en}} Tariq Aziz and more{{Cite web |title=Hamid Ansari to release Urdu and Hindi editions of "Being the Other: The Muslim in India" |url=https://www.milligazette.com/news/13-books/16442-hamid-ansari-to-release-the-urdu-and-hindi-editions-of-being-the-other-the-muslim-in-india/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Milli Gazette – Indian Muslims Leading News Source |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=What We Did When Our Government Collapsed: My Father Saeed Naqvi’s COVID Story |url=https://thewire.in/health/saeed-naqvi-delhi-second-covid-19-wave-oxygen-cylinder |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Wire}}{{Cite news|newspaper=The Times of India|date=27 October 2016|title=Saeed Naqvi|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/litfest/delhi-litfest-2016/speakers/saeed-naqvi/articleshow/55049972.cms|access-date=2021-10-13|language=en}}
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.
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His latest book is a literary work where he wrote a drama in English
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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'.{{Cite web |date=2016-11-10 |title=Committee on Global Thought |url=https://cgt.columbia.edu/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=CU Global Thought |language=en}} He delivered the 18th Narendran Memorial Lecture on 'Saffron surge: can it be stopped' at the Trivandrum Press Club on 18 August 2019.{{Cite news |author=Staff Reporter |date=2019-08-07 |title=Only free media can counter saffronisation: Saeed Naqvi |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/only-free-media-can-counter-saffronisation-saeed-naqvi/article28873458.ece |access-date=2024-03-06 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}
He was also given a Tedx Talk in Jamia Millia Islamia on 16 October 2017.{{Citation |title=Imbalances in the Global Media and Terrorism {{!}} Saeed Naqvi {{!}} TEDxJMI |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFiQNLWg3zA |access-date=2024-03-06 |language=en}}
Personal life
Saeed Naqvi is born and brought up in Mustafabad, Lucknow.{{Cite web|last=Naqvi|first=Saeed|date=2017-08-18|title=India is 70, but what celebration for this family?|url=https://www.asianage.com/opinion/oped/180817/india-is-70-but-what-celebration-for-this-family.html|access-date=2021-09-11|website=The Asian Age}} He studied at La Martinière College, Lucknow.{{Cite magazine|author=Irfan Ahmad |date=7 July 2016 |title=The mourning after|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20160718-muslim-in-india-saeed-naqvi-book-829208-2016-07-07|access-date=2021-09-11|magazine=India Today|language=en}}
Naqvi married to Aruna Naqvi{{Cite web |title=Being the Other: The Muslim in India |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/book-reviews/being-the-other-the-muslim-in-india |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}} and has three daughters, journalist Saba Naqvi and writer Farah Naqvi{{cite web|url=https://lucknowliteraryfestival.com/saba_naqvi/|title=Book Launch 'In Good Faith' By Saba Naqvi}} and Zeba Akhtar. His mother is Atia Naqvi while his brother is Shanney Naqvi.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Books
- Reflections of an Indian Muslim (1993)
- The Last Brahmin Prime Minister (1996)
- Being the Other: The Muslim in India (2016){{Cite web |title=From Syncretism to Sectarianism, a Troubled Journey Through Modern India |url=https://thewire.in/books/being-the-other-saeed-naqvi |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The Wire}}
- Watan mein ghair وطن میں غیر : Hindustani Musalmaan (2018) – Urdu translation of Strangers in their own country: The Muslims in India
- The Muslim Vanishes (2022)
Awards
- National Integration Award 2003, awarded by the National Commission for Minorities in New Delhi on 18 December. The award was conferred "for his outstanding contribution towards promoting communal harmony and national integrity".[http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/01-15Jan04-Print-Edition/0101200440.htm Awards] The Milli Gazette, January 2003, accessed June 2007
References
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External links
- [https://saeednaqvi.com/ Personal website]
- [http://www.expressindia.com/news/columnists/saee/20001201.html Saeed Naqvi, columns] at The Indian Express
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100812124052/http://outlookindia.com/peoplehome3.aspx?pid=4255&author=Saeed+Naqvi Saeed Naqvi, columns] at Outlook
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100709082448/http://blogs.newsx.com/saeednaqvi/ Saeed Naqvi] at NewsX
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Category:La Martinière College, Lucknow alumni
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Category:Kirori Mal College alumni
Category:Indian television talk show hosts
Category:Indian newspaper editors
Category:20th-century Indian journalists