Top
Home » Sunanda K Datta Ray
Sunanda K Datta Ray
About the AuthorSunanda K Datta Ray
Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda...

    Pakistan’s armed forces are only between two-and-a-half to three times smaller than India’s, having been built up at the...

    24 Nov 2025 10:03 PM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Synagogue Attack Exposes Britain’s Cauldron Of Hate | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Synagogue Attack Exposes Britain’s Cauldron Of Hate |...

    The sequence of events seems like a nightmare now compared with the Manchester in whose warm friendship my adolescent...

    8 Oct 2025 1:04 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain Drain?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump Targets India: End to the Biggest Brain...

    If US President Donald Trump’s brutally sudden fiat isn’t just a bargaining ploy, it has cut short what could have...

    24 Sept 2025 9:38 PM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Can Delhi, Beijing Avoid The Mistakes Of The Past? | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Can Delhi, Beijing Avoid The Mistakes Of The Past? |...

    That tale seems apposite as members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a strategic forum of four democracies...

    12 Sept 2025 11:40 PM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? |...

    India must also beware of the sleight of hand practised by some American diplomats when Jawaharlal Nehru was clamouring...

    29 Aug 2025 10:06 PM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Trump’s Tariffs: Targeting Of India Has A Long History | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Trump’s Tariffs: Targeting Of India Has A Long History |...

    Not that India is a stranger to the blunt bullying practised by some North American politicians. Although Prime Minister...

    14 Aug 2025 11:52 PM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Can Commonwealth Find A Role, With Help From India? | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Can Commonwealth Find A Role, With Help From India? |...

    The 56-member Commonwealth might even succeed in devising a peace formula for a West Asia whose warring entities --...

    17 July 2025 10:46 PM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Trump’s ‘Hammer’ Create a New West Asia?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Trump’s ‘Hammer’ Create a New West Asia?

    To complicate matters, Narendra Modi’s India, too, enjoys close diplomatic and defence ties with Israel while viewing...

    3 July 2025 10:02 PM IST

    Book Review | What Indira Was ThinkingBooks
    Book Review | What Indira Was Thinking

    Frank pins Indira badges on dhotis, turns C.R. Das into an Allahabad-wallah, delays the Bangladesh war by a decade to...

    21 Jun 2025 3:50 PM IST

    Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism WonBooks
    Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism Won

    While Reed’s book is now of mainly archival interest, Ashis Ray’s recalls history in the making

    17 May 2025 1:40 PM IST

    Mamata BanerjeeColumnists
    Reflections | Blow to Teachers Might be Biggest Crisis for Mamata |...

    On April 3, the Supreme Court cited extensive fraud in the recruitment process to sack thousands of state-run and...

    29 April 2025 1:46 AM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv |...

    Clearly, Mr Vance missed the symbolic defiance of Mr Zelenskyy’s military-style black sweatshirt adorned with Ukraine’s...

    11 March 2025 11:04 PM IST

    X