Saba Naqvi
Journalist at Freelance
Books, In Good Faith (2012) Capital Conquest (2015). Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee to Modi ( 2018) Politics of Jugaad (2019). Saffron Storm (2024)
Articles
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4 days ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Vivek Katju |Vaishna Roy
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared in posters the past week wearing military fatigues, invoking Operation Sindoor, it may have been a dramatic image, but it was also a deeply problematic one. In most democracies, the visual of a civilian elected leader in combat should trigger unease, not applause. Across the border in Pakistan, we have seen what happens when military generals depose civilian rulers and then their strategies become central to statecraft.
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2 weeks ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy
The problem with an India-Pakistan conflict is that it is both very predictable and highly risky. This time around we went into a short duration military conflict after a horrific terrorist attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir. The hostilities ended after US President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had brokered a ceasefire. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however, said that Pakistan approached India for a ceasefire; he also stated that India would not succumb to nuclear blackmail.
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3 weeks ago |
deccanherald.com | Saba Naqvi
The government should put investigative agencies on the job of locating the trolls and book them under various sections of the law to send a message.
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4 weeks ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy
As the government announces plans to include caste in the next census—the first comprehensive caste enumeration since 1931—the nation grapples with fundamental questions about its social fabric. To understand the implications of this, senior journalist Saba Naqvi interviewed Sumeet Mhaskar, labour sociologist and thinker, as part of Frontline Conversations.
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1 month ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy
The past can hold clues to an uncertain future. Indira Gandhi was hailed for India’s decisive victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan, leading to the birth of Bangladesh. She had seemed invincible then, but in that victory also lay the seeds of her destruction. The Congress became a party built around a “Supreme Leader”, which eventually turned out to be bad for its health, and the cost of war jolted the economy as inflation went through the roof.
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strategically, this is an attempt to somehow strengthen hand of unelected governors in states ruled by elected Opposition. The law on federal powers is clear but it requires steel to stand up in this age of sycophants. First big test for New CJI. https://t.co/wzJcVGf9Gp
Presumably he has the go ahead and support of his party to defend the words used about #ColSophiyaQureshi in particular and Muslims in general.
#BREAKING BJP Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah moves #SupremeCourt against Madhya Pradesh HC's suo motu direction for registration of FIR against him over his comment calling #ColonelSofiyaQureshi a "sister of terrorists" Shah has been booked u/s 152, 196(1)(b), and 197(1)(c) of BNS https://t.co/NVtaUyZ4yI
But looking for a sensible answer on what has caused this sudden air disaster again?
AQI 500 what the hell happened to national capital
