Journalist and Columnist
Praful Bidwai is an Leftist political analyst and commentator, a social science researcher, and an activist on issues of peace, global justice, human rights and environmental protection.
Bidwai's journalistic career spans four decades. His first notable work in journalism was as a columnist for the "Economic and Political Weekly", beginning in 1972. He then worked for magazines and newspapers including "Business India", "Financial Express" and "The Times of India" between 1981 and 1993, eventually becoming its Senior Editor. He was "The Times group's" most published journalist for 20 years, writing analytical and investigative articles on themes including politics and political economy; economic policy and industrialisation strategies; international relations; energy, the environment and sustainable development; religion, ethnicity and politics; social conflict, communalism and nationalism; science and technology; and nuclear weapons disarmament and peace..
Bidwai is currently a columnist whose articles are published regularly in the Hindustan Times, Frontline, Rediff.com, and other outlets. He has also been published in The Guardian (London), The Nation (New York), Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), and Il Manifesto (Rome).
In July 2011, United States authorities confirmed that Bidwai supported and attended many Pakistani ISI funded anti-India events in the United States hosted by illegal Pakistani lobbyist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has since been arrested.
Read more about this topic: Praful Bidwai
Famous quotes containing the word journalist:
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)