Praful Bidawi

Prominent Indian journalist, political analyst and activist. Founder of Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND) based in New Delhi. Winner of the Sean McBride International Peace Prize by the International Peace Bureau in recognition of his work opposing nuclear weapons development in South Asia.

Triumphalism over Myanmar Raid / Perils of covert operations

If torturing one person saves a hundred lives, wouldn't that be justified? This argument may seem attractive, but it's dangerously wrong. It violates the right to life and often produces false results which might lead to yet more violence.

18 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Praful Bidawi Column / AAP's democratic deficit

THE Aam Aadmi Party became the great white hope of Indian democracy in February when it stopped the Modi juggernaut in Delhi with a spectacular election victory.

8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

PRAFUL BIDWAI COLUMN / Meaning of AAP's victory

It has been described as the halting of the “saffron juggernaut,” the Bharatiya Janata Party's worst recent political drubbing, and Narendra Modi's Stalingrad, the battle that became a turning point in World War-II.

14 February 2015, 19:21 PM