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Praful Bidwai (born 1949) is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist.
Journalist and columnist
After failing to complete graduation at Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai , bitter Bidwai's first notable work in journalism was as a columnist for Economic and Political Weekly of Mumbai, beginning in 1972. He was later an editor of Business India and a special correspondent for Financial Express of Mumbai. He served as editor of The Times of India between 1981 and 1993, eventually becoming its Senior Editor. During this time he was The Times' most published journalist. Bidwai is currently a columnist whose stories are published regularly in the Hindustan Times, The Tribune, Rediff.com, Frontline, the Kashmir Times, and more than twenty other newspapers. He frequently writes for the international news agency IPS, and has also contributed to Pakistani publications including The Nation. Bidwai authors a regular column, "From the World's Most Dangerous Place", on the website Antiwar.com, and is a regular columnist for the The Hindu.
Peace activism
Bidwai, a Maharashtrian from Mumbai is also a veteran peace activist with anti-Imperialist moorings . He helped found the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND), based in New Delhi, is a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation, and is one of the leaders of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, India. Along with Achin Vanaik, Bidwai is the author of New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Interlink, 1999). In 2000, Bidwai and Vanaik were awarded the Sean McBride International Peace Prize by the International Peace Bureau in recognition of their work opposing nuclear weapons development in South Asia. Praful Bidwai is a fellow of the Transnational Institute.
Bibliography
Books
- South Asia on a Short Fuse. Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament, with Achin Vanaik (Oxford UP, 1999)
- In the US, the book has been published as New Nukes. India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Interlink Publishing: USA, 1999)
- Testing Times. The Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban, with Achin Vanaik (Dag Hammerskjöld Foundation: Uppsala, 1996)
- Religion, Religiosity and Communalism, with Harbans Mukhia and Achin Vanaik (South Asia Books, 1996)
- India Under Siege. Challenges Within and Without, with Muchkund Dubey, Anuradha Chenoy and Arun Ghosh (South Asia Books, 1995)
Selected articles
- ""Atoms for Peace: A Failed Promise" In: Survey of the Environment '99, The Hindu, 1999
- "India's Nuclear Daze. The Domestic Politics of Nuclearization" (With Achin Vanaik) In: Testing the Limits, TNI/IPS Amsterdam/Washington, August 1998
- "Nuclear India: A Short History" In: 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) In: Jochen Hippler (eds). The Democratisation of Disempowerment TNI/Pluto Press, 1995
- "India and Pakistan" (With Achin Vanaik) In: Security with Nuclear Weapons New York, Oxford University Press, 1991
References
External links
- Biographical notes
- Biographical information from the Transnational Institute
- Archive of articles from rediff.com
- IPS Praful Bidwai’s contributions to the news agency Inter Press Service