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178th Day Of Lockdown
Sunanda K Datta Ray
Sunanda K Datta-Ray | After COVID devastation, India to need rebuilding
If the pandemic does end in two years, as WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus predicts, it will leave behind a ramshackle India
26 Aug 2020 8:02 PM
Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Make India stronger in order to take on China
As Dr Manmohan Singh, has always reiterated, the Asian ecosystem has ample space for India and China both to grow together
12 Aug 2020 4:58 PM
Sunanda K Datta Ray | As US, China spar; India needs to fend for itself
India must consider its own long-term geopolitical imperatives more than American overtures
29 Jul 2020 4:51 PM
Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Don’t allow rancour to hinder ties with Nepal
India has had problems with Nepal long before there were any with China
14 Jul 2020 6:56 PM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India’s colour bar: Why ‘fairness’ touches nerve
Nandita Das, a well-known young filmmaker and actress, says even a superficial name change is a step in the right direction
01 Jul 2020 6:16 PM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi sends a rising star to Tibet: What’s his plan?
Not much is known in this country about 57-year-old Lt. Gen. Xu Qiling, whom President Xi Jinping handpicked for the job
17 Jun 2020 5:35 PM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India can take on China only if the economy is sound
China has pumped more than $4 billion into Indian startups and Chinese investors participated in 54 rounds of funding in 2019
02 Jun 2020 5:17 PM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: Global role eludes India
This could be India’s chance of helping to shape a new world order and for Mr Modi to seize the spotlight that was once Jawaharlal Nehru’s
20 May 2020 7:06 PM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: What Modi can learn from Mrs Gandhi
She handled 10 million refugees from East Pakistan while this govt is huffing and puffing over a far smaller number of migrant workers
06 May 2020 5:58 PM
Sunanda K Datta Ray: US, China on the brink of a new global cold war
And India is caught uneasily between the contending giants
23 Apr 2020 3:58 AM
Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: Only doctors and nurses can save India now
Suddenly, Donald Trump wants Indian drugs and Indian doctors
07 Apr 2020 10:01 AM
India, US can work closely, but there are limits
What might further encourage such Opposition aspirants as Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee is that the economy is in the doldrums.
24 Feb 2020 3:18 AM
Rajapaksas must try to heal civil war’s wounds
The Tibet Autonomous Region’s more than 40 ethnic minorities account for 95 per cent of its population.
11 Feb 2020 1:45 AM
The Republic beyond 70: Who’ll shape its future?
The Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh reforms opened the gates to the creation of new wealth.
28 Jan 2020 2:19 AM
Why is govt desperate for the West’s praise?
The Americans and Iranians don’t feel it necessary to keep India in the picture over their spat.
14 Jan 2020 4:14 AM
CAA: Belated justice for orphans of Partition?
Perhaps critics do have a point in accusing the Modi-Shah duo of not being moved by any lofty ideal in enacting the CAA.
31 Dec 2019 12:35 AM
The end of a dream, or new beginning for UK?
Muslims expect humanity to persecuted Hindus abroad will damage their civic rights.
18 Dec 2019 2:40 AM
US-China wrangling on HK just sound & fury?
Washington plays these games when it has problems with China that have nothing to do with Tibet.
03 Dec 2019 2:02 AM
For UK, Brexit likely to be end of a dream
Many voters are fed up with Brexit. Many don’t want the hassle of another referendum.
20 Nov 2019 2:27 AM
Was Gandhi ‘Hindian’? The redefining of India
Many Gandhi statues abroad seem to be mired in controversy.
05 Nov 2019 6:29 AM
Columns
Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign
More humane provisions are needed for prisoners, including political prisoners and those charged under special laws
The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false
The problem is that India and China never agreed on where the LAC was, as the perceptions of what each side “controlled” varied