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Links to the last articles of Jawed Naqvi.

Religion, cinema and politics	(September 4, 2008)
Religious violence hastens India’s leap into deeper obscurantism	(September 1, 2008)
The fair journalists of yore	(August 28, 2008)
The link between Kashmir, global ferment and two nawabs	(August 25, 2008)
News without Musharraf	(August 21, 2008)
India didn’t need a Zia; its liberal leaders did the job well	(August 18, 2008)
A medal in a pawnshop	(August 14, 2008)
Muslim role models and villains are a matter of convenience	(August 11, 2008)
Terror by rumour	(August 7, 2008)
Saarc is a rich kaleidoscope of people who disagree with it	(August 4, 2008)
Gandhi’s talisman for Rahul	(July 31, 2008)
How the state connives with fanaticism, instead of fighting it	(July 28, 2008)
Apartheid, war and bribery	(July 24, 2008)
When bad economics comes into conflict with democracies	(July 21, 2008)
Thank God for Marxists	(July 17, 2008)
How long will India continue to carry the White Man’s burden?	(July 14, 2008)
Stalin’s ghost over Kashmir	(July 10, 2008)
Is your leader a visionary or an illusionist? Let the roosters decide	(July 7, 2008)
A pilgrimage in Lahore	(July 3, 2008)
The idiom of the olive branch in India-Pakistan context	(June 30, 2008)
Textbook prejudices	(June 26, 2008)
From IMF to IAEA: India’s crash course in secrecy	(June 23, 2008)
Religion and cholesterol	(June 19, 2008)
Indian army gets respect abroad, but faces siege within	(June 16, 2008)
Gutter and press	(June 12, 2008)
After the hurly-burly of polls a pair of hooves is all you get	(June 9, 2008)
The slave’s dream	(June 5, 2008)
Raise a toast to Colonel Ketchup of the Indian army	(June 2, 2008)
Snapshots from Kashmir	(May 29, 2008)
Correct school textbooks before writing the university thesis	(May 26, 2008)
A good judge of art	(May 22, 2008)
Dalai Lama likes peace but he chooses where he wants it	(May 19, 2008)
Bushels of rice	(May 15, 2008)
Iraq effect: Americans board buses, Indians find it infra dig	(May 12, 2008)
A different kettle of fish	(May 8, 2008)
A peace memorial to Gujarat’s victims of fascist violence	(May 5, 2008)
Meet Majaaz the Muslim	(May 1, 2008)
How Ahmedinejad affects Indian and American electoral fortunes	(April 28, 2008)
Gunning for culture	(April 24, 2008)
If news is essentially a local affair can there be South Asian TV?	(April 21, 2008)
Information or propaganda	(April 17, 2008)
Nepal’s lesson for us: Maoists make excellent democrats	(April 14, 2008)
Perhaps alarmist, perhaps not	(April 10, 2008)
Once a Marxist critique now shared by hundred others	(April 7, 2008)
Once a Marxist critique now shared by hundred others	(April 7, 2008)
Religion in uniform	(April 3, 2008)
A heady brew of nationalism, mythology and calendar art	(March 31, 2008)
Another sad chapter for Kashmir	(March 27, 2008)
In Delhi, Asma and Yasin learn a few ‘home’ truths	(March 24, 2008)
A curse of all armies	(March 20, 2008)
Too many cooks, or a hundred flowers blooming in Kashmir?	(March 17, 2008)
In praise of self-criticism	(March 13, 2008)
And now, Dr Singh must cook a fine meal for Mr Vajpayee	(March 10, 2008)
Colonialism’s clerical errors	(March 6, 2008)
Globalisation and the story of an unremitting siege mentality	(March 3, 2008)
Time to judge the judiciary?	(February 28, 2008)
Religious revivalism in Nepal gets help from secular friends	(February 25, 2008)
After the euphoria	(February 21, 2008)
Is the fulcrum of India-Pakistan ties about to shift to Sindh?	(February 18, 2008)
The questioning spirit	(February 14, 2008)
Taslima lives somewhere in Delhi, Hussain in Dubai	(February 11, 2008)
The mockingbirds of Gujarat	(February 7, 2008)
Whistling in the dark, PM braces for power outage	(February 4, 2008)
Revolution and charity	(January 31, 2008)
Of spouses, ‘friends’ and double standards that don’t fit	(January 28, 2008)
Notes from an Indian village	(January 24, 2008)
An old relationship punctuated by a new political grammar	(January 22, 2008)
An award or a requiem?	(January 17, 2008)
A war of borrowed idioms, narrow definitions	(January 14, 2008)
Race, nationalism & foolishness	(January 10, 2008)
To recapture the scent of flowers, the morning breeze	(January 7, 2008)
As good neighbours should	(January 3, 2008)
Could Benazir defy the adverse rules governing martyrdom?	(December 31, 2007)
Reincarnating a monarch	(December 27, 2007)
The corporate world gets their model chief minister again	(December 24, 2007)
Terror by clerical error	(December 20, 2007)
If he loses, Narendra Modi could still join the Congress	(December 17, 2007)
Lawyers were children once	(December 13, 2007)
For the leader from Gujarat, Hitler is too mild a rebuke	(December 10, 2007)
Before the flak jackets came	(December 6, 2007)
Could corporate exposes be the test for class journalists?	(December 3, 2007)
Sufi linkages	(November 29, 2007)
DATELINE NEW DELHI	(November 26, 2007)
Of Commonwealth & Majrooh	(November 22, 2007)
A thumping majority that Dr Singh does not have	(November 19, 2007)
The curse of Stalin in Nandigram	(November 15, 2007)
Quite unnoticed, Kashmir settles down for another winter chill	(November 12, 2007)
Subversion or liberation?	(November 8, 2007)
The real agenda: surrender of sovereignty by hook or by crook	(November 5, 2007)
Regime change — for a fee?	(November 1, 2007)
Can we resist fascism with indignation alone?	(October 29, 2007)
We were far more liberal then	(October 25, 2007)
War on terror, a cure worse than the disease?	(October 22, 2007)
Flip side of the legal brief	(October 18, 2007)
A salad bowl going stale	(October 11, 2007)
Musharraf’s election as seen from self-absorbed Delhi	(October 8, 2007)
Would Bhagat Singh be a smiling citizen of India today?	(October 01, 2007)
Rashomon factor in Musharraf-Sharif spat	(September 27, 2007)
India the world’s new terror capital? BJP thinks so	(September 24, 2007)
Taming the nature of the beast	(September 20, 2007)
Don’t trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you	(September 17, 2007)
Mythology of a nation’s friends and its perceived enemies	(September 10, 2007)
A notch below the white man, a touch above the black	(September 3, 2007)
A few great parliaments and a few un-elected MPs	(August 27, 2007)
Dodging Pakistani sleuths to cover a war and a coup	(August 20, 2007)
Need for an uncensored history from 1857 to 1947	(August 13, 2007)
‘Soon India’s jails will be choc-a-block with Muslims’	(August 6, 2007)
The strange cases of Mohammed Haneef and Iftikhar Gilani	(July 30, 2007)
Lal Masjid and Golden Temple are like chalk and cheese	(July 23, 2007)
We can blacklist Dr Jekyll, but are we safe with Mr Hyde?	(July 9, 2007)
Why are India and Pakistan reluctant to honour their common hero?	(July 2, 2007)
A hallowed institution that mirrors the split personality of a nation	(June 25, 2007)
Looking for common remedies to a rabid malaise	(June 18, 2007)
A few good reasons to remember Pablo Neruda today	(June 11, 2007)
The disappearing act of a character called Sukhi Lala	(June 4, 2007)
Let’s not talk about Kashmir, so how about Israel then?	(May 28, 2007)
‘Where one burns books, one will soon burn people’	(May 21, 2007)
The day the cow-killer and the cow-worshipper were friends	(May 14, 2007)
The ugly American is passé; welcome the ugly Indian	(May 7, 2007)
Wish Mr Sharma a pleasant trip to New York	(April 30, 2007)
India needs a new altar of reason, not more religion	(April 23, 2007)
Wages of fanaticism are paid in different foreign currencies	(April 16, 2007)
A revolving door for democrats, dictators and bankers	(April 9, 2007)
Saarc’s tortuous journey like a cyclist’s interrupted dream	(April 03, 2007)
Has a new slave dynasty taken power in South Asia?	(March 26, 2007)
Rare chance to change the discourse to secular issues	(March 19, 2007)
For signs of peace, look out for vultures	(March 12, 2007)
In praise of a brand new spring offensive	(March 5, 2007)
India to send bomb disposal squad for World Cup	(March 3, 2007)
Big rise in Indian defence budget	(March 1, 2007)
BJP defeats Congress in 2 states	(February 28, 2007)
Terrorism and the quest for a colour blind cat	(February 26, 2007)
Indian train blast probe takes bizarre turn	(February 24, 2007)
Kasuri in Delhi; talks to send strong anti-terror warning: Sober response to carnage; media avoids finger-pointing	(February 21, 2007)
Cross-border peace is easier than peace at home	(February 19, 2007)
EU wants India to join NPT, CTBT	(February 17, 2007)
We are happy, says Indian minister	(February 13, 2007)
How to avert a summit of lotus eaters	(February 12, 2007)
Dealing with common foe	(February 7, 2007)
Why is Rahul Gandhi a target for Hindutva, Zionist groups?	(February 5, 2007)
Mirwaiz asks India to consider Musharraf proposals	(February 2, 2007)
Of native cultural prowess and borrowed military grandeur	(January 29, 2007)
Progress in talks despite terror threats, says Singh	(January 25, 2007)
A prescription for Indians to seriously fight racism	(January 22, 2007)
Leaders of Kashmir to focus on common plan	(January 18, 2007)
India’s tryst with destiny: a dream, a nightmare	(January 15, 2007)
The perfidy of the vanquished	(January 8, 2007)
Mirwaiz reminds Ban of Kashmir dispute	(January 6, 2007)
Mukherjee’s agenda for talks cleared	(January 5, 2007)
N-sites lists swapped	(January 4, 2007)
Is rest of the world safe from American hangman?	(December 31, 2006)
Ireland-like approach needed: Mirwaiz	(December 30, 2006)
Back-channel talks held in Lahore, says paper	(December 27, 2006)
Santa should trim his beard, better still shave it off	(December 25, 2006)
‘India’s Kargil hero insulted’	(December 22, 2006)
Singh seeks peace treaty with Pakistan	(December 21, 2006)
US can’t stop N-tests, dictate Iran policy: Singh	(December 19, 2006)