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

    Mahinda Rajapaksa is credited with a military victory ending a 26-year separatist civil war with ethnic Tamil rebels during his presidency from 2005 to 2015. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    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 IST

    P V Narasimha Rao. (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    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 IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    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 IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    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 IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)Opinion
    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 IST

    US President Donald Trump plans to make a \major statement\ at the White House at 9 am EST (1300 GMT) on Sunday, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said late on Saturday. (Photo: File)Opinion
    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.

    3 Dec 2019 2:02 AM IST

    Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that the attack bore all the hallmarks of an attack by the Syrian regime. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    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 IST

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