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

Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)

Is it an insult to tell one to go back to Afro-Asia?

Yet, telling a white to make the reverse journey has no sinister overtones because he doesn't need to regret his...

8 Oct 2019 3:32 AM IST

Mahatma Gandhi believed in the efficacy of pitching the soul force called satyagraha against the brute force of the oppressor and in effect converting the oppressor to the right and moral point.

A man who gave India a new idea about itself

Reverence is big business on which gurus and godmen, mahants and mantris thrive.

2 Oct 2019 1:21 AM IST

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (Photo: AP)

Scotland & Kashmir: Parallel, separate narratives

The sense of separateness runs high this week as Scots recall the fifth anniversary of the independence referendum.

25 Sept 2019 1:08 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo: AFP)

Will Boris have to go, as battle over Brexit rages?

Since Parliament has passed a law against a no-deal Brexit, defiance might even mean legal prosecution that could send...

10 Sept 2019 12:04 AM IST

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. (Photo: File)

Give dalits education & jobs, and forget quotas

The dalit situation is an aspect of caste, and caste-based crimes have registered a 25 per cent rise since 2016.

27 Aug 2019 12:00 AM IST

Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

Waiting for the fallout after huge shift in J&K

Article 370 was enacted to give constitutional sanction to this restricted relationship with New Delhi.

13 Aug 2019 12:02 AM IST

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

What desi son-in-law' at No 10 really wants

Britain's PM calls himself India's son-in-law . Presumably, the reference is to his divorced second wife's mother who...

30 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

President Donald Trump says Iran wants to make a deal. (Photo:AP)

Trump, Saudis & Iran: Is toppling in the offing?

The measure seeks to authorise the President to suspend US visas of Saudi citizens, including specifically government...

18 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan

Hyderabad old & new: Symbol of changing India

This obliteration of distinction for the global symbols of anonymous affluence is an all-India phenomenon.

2 July 2019 7:37 AM IST

The reality here is Pakistan and its jihad-fi-sabilillah (meaning in the cause of Allah ) campaign of terrorism against India.

To fight terror, words won't do, action is vital

India's concern is Kashmir-centric terrorism inspired and abetted by Pakistan.

18 Jun 2019 3:34 AM IST

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee

Didi needs to shift, offer Bengal a brighter future

A secular Trinamul Congress frantically courting minority Muslims has no chance against the juggernaut of these forces...

4 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Modi must now unite all of India to take it forward

Nearly 200 million Muslims can't be brushed under the carpet, or brushed into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

24 May 2019 2:35 AM IST