Sibtain Naqvi is an independent researcher and author and on focuses institutional and cultural history. A frequent contributor to Pakistan's English newspapers, Naqvi's research has been presented in Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia and other international universities and his essays have been published by Oxford University Press in Pakistan's Radioactive Decade. He has been heavily cited in Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation by Mark L. Clifford and Janet Pau and co-sponsored by Time Magazine, Asia Business Council and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Besides Unravelling Gordian Knots, Sibtain Naqvi has also authored Chronicling Excellence: A History of IBA, Cobwebbed World of Sadequain: A Retrospective, Ghalib: Call of Angel, Sadequain: Drawings 1970, Surah-e-Rehman: Calligraphy and Rubaiyaat-e-Kuliyaat-Sadequain (The Complete Quatrains of Sadequain).