The Muslim Vanishes

About Saeed Naqvi

Saeed Naqvi is a well-known Indian journalist. He covered the 1971 war against Pakistan which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh the Sri Lankan Civil War 1971 Sino-Vietnam war 1979 US bombing of Libya 1986 the first coup in Fiji 1987 Nicaragua war 1989 Operation Desert Storm 1991 US occupation of Afghanistan 2002 and Iraq 2003 and the Syrian civil war 2011. He has also conducted long-format TV interviews with world statesmen like Fidel Castro Nelson Mandela Mikhail Gorbachev Saddam Hussain Muammar Qaddafi Benazir Bhutto Henry Kissinger Yitzhak Rabin Shimon Peres Benjamin Netanyahu Hashemi Rafsanjani Hosni Mubarak and Mahathir Mohammad. Among the path-breaking works in the field of India's plural culture and the history of Hindustani classical music is his three-part DVD series on the history of Hindustani classical music. He has produced thirty-five short films on India's composite culture which were considered a landmark. He has authored three books: Reflections of an Indian Muslim (1992) The Last Brahmin Prime Minister (1996) and Being The Other: The Muslim in India (2016).