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Praful Bidwai
Praful Bidwai was a journalist, political analyst, author and activist. He started his journalistic career as a columnist for the Economic and Political Weekly, beginning in 1972. ...visualizza altroPraful Bidwai was a journalist, political analyst, author and activist. He started his journalistic career 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. His articles were published regularly in the Hindustan Times, Frontline, Rediff.com, and other outlets. He had also been published in The Guardian, The New Statesmen and Society (London), The Nation (New York), Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), and Il Manifesto (Rome). A veteran peace activist, he helped found the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND), based in New Delhi, was a member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation, and was one of the leaders of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, India. He is the author of The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future (Orient Blackswan, 2011). He has coauthored Testing Times: The Global Stake in a Nuclear Test Ban (Dag Hammerskjold Foundation: Uppsala, 1996), New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament (Interlink, 1999), both with Achin Vanaik; Religion, Religiosity and Communalism, with Harbans Mukhia and Achin Vanaik (South Asia Books, 1996); and India Under Siege: Challenges Within and Without, with Muchkund Dubey, Anuradha Chenoy and Arun Ghosh (South Asia Books, 1995). He was the coeditor (with M.N.V. Nair) of The History of the Trade Union Movement in India, 1941-47 (Indian Council of Historical Research, 2005). He passed away on 23 June 2015 while attending a conference in Amsterdam. Bidwai was a fellow at Transnational Institute at Amsterdam in the Netherlands.visualizza meno