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Praful Bidwai (born 1949) is an Indian journalist, political analyst, and activist. His analysis and activism heavily leans towards Marxism though.

After studying at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay(he dropped out of college), Bidwai's first notable work in journalism was as a columnist for Economic and Political Weekly of Bombay, beginning in 1972. He was later an editor of Business India and a special correspondent for Financial Express of Bombay. 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 published regularly in the Hindustan Times, The Tribune, Rediff.com, Frontline, the Kashmir Times, and more than twenty other newspapers. He also contributed to Pakistani publications including The Nation.

Bidwai is also a veteran peace activist with anti-America 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, a leftist group, in recognition of their work opposing nuclear weapons development in South Asia. Critics often claim that his anti-nuclear crusade is restricted to India while ignoring the nuclear abilities of its two hostile neigbors, the Islamic republic of Pakistan and Communist China. His bias is attributed to him being a self-acclaimed Marxist.[1]

Praful Bidwai is a fellow (traveller?) of the Transnational Institute.

Bidwai authors a regular column, "From the World's Most Dangerous Place", on the website Antiwar.com.

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