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Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author From 2000, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of News week InternationalIn 2010 he became Editor in charge of Time Magazine
In 2010, the Govt. of India honored him with thePadma Bhushan for his contribution towards journalism.
Zakaria was born in Mumbai to a Kankani Muslim family. His father, Rafiq Zakaria was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic Scholar, His mother, Fatma Zakaria was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India.
In October 2000, he was named Editor of Newsweek International and wrote a weekly foreign affairs column. In August 2010 it was announced that he was moving from Newsweek to Time magazine, to serve as a contributing editor and columnist.
He has written on a variety of subjects for the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, The News Yerker and as a wine columnist for the web magazine Slate.
Zakaria is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1998), The Future of Freedom (Norton, 2003), and The Post american World (2008); he has also co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books).
Zakaria said at the time, “The place is so dysfunctional... any stirring of the pot is good. America’s involvement in the region is for the good." He argued for a United Nation-sanctioned operation with a much larger force—approximately 400,000 troops—than was actually employed by the administration of President BushAfter the invasion, he frequently criticized the way the Bush administration was running the occupation of Iraq He continued to argue that a functioning democracy in Iraq would be a powerful new model for Arab politics but believes that at this point, an honest accounting would have to say that the costs of the invasion and occupation have been much higher than the benefits. He opposed the Iraq surge in March 2007, writing that it would work militarily but not politically, still leaving Iraq divided among its three communities. Instead he advocated that Washington push hard for a political settlement between the Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, and Kurds, and begin a reduction in forces to only 60,000 troops. In January 2009, he stated flatly that the surge "succeeded," militarily and did better politically than he would have predicted
From 2006, Zakaria has also criticized what he views as "fear-based" American policies employed not only in combating terrorism, but also in enforcing immigration and drug smuggling laws, and has argued in favor of decriminalization of drugs and citizenship for presently illegal immigrants to the United States of all backgrounds.
Zakaria was conferred Indian Aabroo Person of the Year 2008 award on March 20, 2009, in New York. FilmmakerMira Nair who won the award for year 2007, honored her successor. He has received honorary degrees .
In January 2010, Zakaria was given the Padma Bhushan award by the Indian government for his contribution to the field of journalism.
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