Saeed Naqvi’s Being
the Other: The Muslim in India, (Aleph, 2016) is both a hot potato and a
fragrant mango. Perhaps this should be the other way around: a fragrant mango
and a hot potato. In the Introduction the veteran journalist and commentator
says he had:
“Intended this book to
be memoir. However, in its final form, a part of it is a procession of images,
‘scratches on the mind’. The rest comprises my observations and eye witness
accounts of various seminal events in c
is the author of two novels, Comrade Sahib and A Twisted Cue. He was an assistant editor of The Indian Express and a war correspondent during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
