| Saeed Naqvi | |
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| Occupation | journalist, television commentator, interviewer |
Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer, and a Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.[1] 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 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. [1][2][3]
Currently anchoring a Primetime show “In Conversation” based on interviews with world statesman and other celebrities on NewsX, one of India’s most influential news channel. The transcripts are posted on the website of Observer Research Foundation.
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He was a Parvin Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, US. He studied Journalism at the Thomson School of Journalism, Cardiff, UK.
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 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, he famously sneaked in along with fellow photographer, Raghu Rai and they not only filed new reports, but also took photographs inside.[4][5]
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 a international affairs series entitled World Report for Doordarshan, featuring interviews with major world leaders.
Thereafter it produced a series of programmes entitled Hamara Bharat (My 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.
§ Afghanistan – Will the US leave? § The Arab Spring – Promises and Challenges – based on extended journeys in the region § The future of Syria
Interviewed world leaders like, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Fidel Castro, Col. Qaddafi, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Henry Kissinger, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Shimon Peres, Israel, UN Secretary Generals Perez de Cueller Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-Moon, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Ali Akbar Vilayati, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, Tariq Aziz of Iraq, Rafsanjani of Iran, Foreign Secretary of State Colin Powel, Ahmad Chalabi, Iraqi Shia leader, Benazir Bhutto, President Jacques Chirac, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Prince Hassan of Jordan, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul, President George Vassilieau of Cyprus, among others, in over a hundred countries.
The award was conferred "for his outstanding contribution towards promoting communal harmony and national integrity".[6]