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Peace & Security
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28° 38' 7.1088" N, 77° 13' 29.856" E
Praful Bidwai

Independent Journalist

TNI Fellow and former senior editor of The Times of India, Praful is a freelance journalist and insightful columnist for several leading newspapers in South Asia writing regularly on all aspects of Indian politics, economy, society and its international relations. 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).

Nuclear Disarmament in South Asia; Nuclear Weapon Free Zones; Alternative Security; Communalism in India; India; Pakistan; Indian electoral politics

Praful Bidwai is a co-recipient, with Achin Vanaik, of the International Peace Bureau's Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000.

English

Praful Bidwai regularly publishes in Khaleej Times, The New Internationalist, Rediff.com, Navhid Times, The Times of India, Frontline, The Hindu, Inter Press Service and Tehelka.com

Selected publications: 
New Nukes
The World at the Climate Crossroads

Recent content by Praful Bidwai

Glaciers are still melting… (25 Oct 2010)

Although an estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch­ange on rapid recession of  Himalayan glaciers has become a political issue in India,  its scientific foundations are quite solid.

Equity: the unaddressed agenda (11 Mar 2010)

India's Finance Minister's first budget has failed to seize an opportunity to raise social spending and reduce In­dia’s obscene rich-poor, inter-sectoral and geographical inequalities.

War on Maoists (11 Mar 2010)

The Indian government must at once stop the military operation against its own citizens in the tribal heartland and open unconditional talks with the Maoists.

Israel as a rogue state (2 Mar 2010)

Israel's practice of illegal assasinations, such as the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhough in Dubai, is in line with its ruthless policy of consolidating its occupation, expanding illegal settlements, and tightening its economic hold over Palestinians — in defiance of Security Council resolutions and global opinion.

Need-based development in a free, just society: the lasting legacy of Mahatma Gandhi (17 Feb 2010)

An emphasis on popular mobilisation,  essential to enfranchising the millions who were excluded from public life and political processes for centuries, remains one of Gandhi’s epochal successes.

Himalayan blunder (15 Feb 2010)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should create a special commission to cross-check all references in its report if errors such as the one on Himalayan glaciers are not to recur.

Imperative to resume India-Pakistan dialogue (8 Feb 2010)

Due to its lack of a coherent policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, India is repeatedly losing opportunities to help stabilise this critical part of its neighbourhood.

A pragmatic ruler (26 Jan 2010)

Jyoti Basu gave the Indian Left parties a unique perspective on practical politics and acquired an unmatched national stature and universal respect.

India’s non-aligned policy (18 Jan 2010)

Contrary to some current criticisms, non-alignment was a logical, rational and ethical response to polarisation and inequity, that allowed India to pursue its national interest while providing moral-political leadership to the global South.

 

Fouling up the air (12 Jan 2010)

India has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further.

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