Saba Naqvi

Author, journalist and commentator, Saba Naqvi is one of India’s best known political analysts. She has published four books. In Good Faith, published in 2012, chronicles a two-year-long journey across India in search of syncretistic traditions and pluralist communities. It is the book closest to her heart and the Marathi edition of the book is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2022. Capital Conquest, 2015, is about the emergence of the AAP, the so-called citizen’s party that now rules Delhi. Her third book, Shades of Saffron: from Vajpayee to Modi, released in June 2018, chronicles the journey of the BJP that Saba covered for two decades. It’s a first-hand account with the author as the primary source of news and information and has profiles of all the leading figures in the BJP’s ascent to power; the Hindi edition is published by Vani Prakashan. Saba’s next book, Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook was published in 2019.

The former political editor of Outlook magazine (under the legendary editor Vinod Mehta), Saba writes columns in leading national dailies and websites. She is also an election analyst on television and YouTube channels and a known political commentator.

Saba has been a Reuters fellow at Oxford University, a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Centre at Hawaii, has been selected for the Asia Leadership Fellow Award given by the Japan Foundation at Tokyo and the US State Department’s fellowship for leading professionals from across the world.