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Sunanda K Datta Ray
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Workers at a flyover construction site during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu. AP PhotoOpinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | After COVID devastation, India to need...

    If the pandemic does end in two years, as WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus predicts, it will leave behind...

    26 Aug 2020 8:02 PM IST

    Workers hang dyed yarn for drying under the sun as seen on the National Handloom Day at a textile mill, in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. PTI PhotoOpinion
    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...

    12 Aug 2020 4:58 PM IST

    US President Donald Trump and Chinas President Xi Jinping (AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta Ray | As US, China spar; India needs to fend for...

    India must consider its own long-term geopolitical imperatives more than American overtures

    29 July 2020 4:51 PM IST

    In this April 6, 2018 file photo, Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli arrives for the inaugural ceremony of the India-Nepal business forum in New Delhi. AP PhotoOpinion
    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 July 2020 6:56 PM IST

    Presumably, the company hopes to reduce the fixation with colour by dropping the fair from its product descriptionsOpinion
    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...

    1 July 2020 6:16 PM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi sends a rising star to Tibet: Whats his plan?Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi sends a rising star to Tibet: What's his...

    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 IST

    In this file photo taken on August 29, 2019, a Changpa nomad shepherd pastures pashmina goats near Korzok village, in the Leh district of Ladakh. AP PhotoOpinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India can take on China only if the economy is...

    China has pumped more than $4 billion into Indian startups and Chinese investors participated in 54 rounds of funding in...

    2 Jun 2020 5:17 PM IST

    Vigorously defending his governments record over the pandemic, Mr Xi claimed in Geneva on Monday that China acted with openness, transparency and responsibility\. AP PhotoOpinion
    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...

    20 May 2020 7:06 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi (PTI)Opinion
    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...

    6 May 2020 5:58 PM IST

    Donald Trump has been talking of consequences if Xi Jinpings government was knowingly responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak. (AFP)Opinion
    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 April 2020 3:58 AM IST

    Patients discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi ,and their attendants take refuge amidst unhygienic conditions in a subway near the hospital as the nationwide lockdown left them no means of transport to go back home. (PTI)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray: Only doctors and nurses can save India now

    Suddenly, Donald Trump wants Indian drugs and Indian doctors

    7 April 2020 10:01 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    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...

    24 Feb 2020 3:18 AM IST

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