Praful Bidwai

Independent journalist

Former senior editor of The Times of India, Praful is a freelance journalist and regular columnist for several leading newspapers in India. He is an associate editor of Security Dialogue, published by PRIO, Oslo; a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation (INESAP) and co-founder of the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND). He is a co-recipient, with Achin Vanaik, of the International Peace Bureau's Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000. His latest book, co-authored with Achin Vanaik, is New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Interlink 1999).
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Areas of interest

Nuclear Disarmament in South Asia; Nuclear Weapon Free Zones; Alternative Security; Communalism in India

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

South Asia on a Short Fuse. Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament
(Co-author with Achin Vanaik) Introduction by Arundhati Roy, Oxford University Press, India, 1999

In the US, the book has been published as New Nukes. India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament
slightly different from the OUP volume in editing style and number of appendices, Interlink Publishing, USA, 1999

Testing Times. The Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban
(Co-author with Achin Vanaik) Dag Hammerskjöld Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden 1996

Religion, Religiosity and Communalism
(Co-editor with Harbans Mukhia and Achin Vanaik) South Asia Books, October 1996

India Under Siege. Challenges Within and Without
(With Muchkund Dubey, Anuradha Chenoy and Arun Ghosh) South Asia Books, November 1995

Contributions to books

"Atoms for Peace: A Failed Promise"
Survey of the Environment '99, The Hindu, 1999

"India's Nuclear Daze. The Domestic Politics of Nuclearization"
(With Achin Vanaik) Testing the Limits, TNI/IPS Amsterdam/Washington, August 1998

"Nuclear India: A Short History"
Out of Nuclear Darkness. The Indian Case for Disarmament, MIND (Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament), New Delhi, 1998

"Communalism and the Democratic Process in India"
(With Achin Vanaik) Jochen Hippler (eds). The Democratisation of Disempowerment TNI/Pluto Press, 1995

"India and Pakistan"
(With Achin Vanaik) Security with Nuclear Weapons
New York, Oxford University Press, 1991

Journal articles

From What Now to What Next:
Reflections on three decades of international politics and development [PDF], Development Dialogue No. 47, June 2006

Papers and speeches

From Ambiguity to Abstinence: Towards Nuclear Disarmament in South Asia
Talk INESAP Meeting in Shanghai, September 1997