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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.

REFLECTIONS | How To Live After Defeat: Lessons From Near, Far | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | How To Live After Defeat: Lessons From Near, Far |...

No one among India’s nearly 50 lakh Central government employees and 69 lakh pensioners can predict exactly what...

19 Jun 2026 10:57 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | After Starmer: Will UK Go From Frying Pan Into Fire? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | After Starmer: Will UK Go From Frying Pan Into Fire? |...

All this is a major setback for Sir Keir’s centre-left Labour Party which swept the polls in the 2024 general election...

19 May 2026 10:43 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | If World Cuts Arms Spend; More Funds For Essentials | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | If World Cuts Arms Spend; More Funds For Essentials |...

It all sounds as complicated as 19th century Europe’s Schleswig-Holstein dispute which, Lord Palmerston famously...

8 May 2026 11:20 PM IST

Reflections | Did Iran Talks Fail Only Due To Nuke Distrust? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Did Iran Talks Fail Only Due To Nuke Distrust? | Sunanda...

At the same time, Mr Trump is on record as saying that last year’s US strikes “completely and totally obliterated”...

13 April 2026 11:39 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Widening Tax Net In India: Will Tail Still Wag The Dog? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Widening Tax Net In India: Will Tail Still Wag The Dog?...

Filing tax returns may seem like just another feel-good formality for the more and more individuals whose numbers...

3 Feb 2026 9:43 PM IST

Reflections | Amid US Threats, Tehran Burns: Is There Way Out? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Amid US Threats, Tehran Burns: Is There Way Out? |...

Protests are nothing new in Iran. Ever since the 1979 Islamic revolution, some 93 million Iranians have battled a...

19 Jan 2026 10:10 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? |...

Ironically, neither Ukraine nor the world might have feared this larger global peril if Ukraine had not been one of four...

5 Dec 2025 10:02 PM IST

Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

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-Ray

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?

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-Ray

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-Ray

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