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Sunanda K Datta Ray
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Kedarnath valley on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The norms of Indian society seem to have changed. Our priorities are...

    Ironically, well-meaning observers abroad hailed the verdict of the hustings five years ago as a much-needed return to...

    21 May 2019 7:16 AM IST

    Pledging to work as a symbol of the people, Naruhito, 59, was formally invested as emperor the day after. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    As Japan enters the Reiwa' era, India must focus on boosting strategic...

    Japan's deeply venerated emperors do not exercise even the informal political influence that Britain's Queen Elizabeth...

    7 May 2019 1:39 AM IST

    The Sunday attacks were the worst ever against Sri Lankas small Christian minority. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    Sri Lanka's horror is a grim warning to India

    Eventually the armed insurgent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam emerged in 1976 to fight for a Tamil homeland in the...

    23 April 2019 12:05 AM IST

    The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tranquebar, Rs 799.Books
    Of Sangh personalities in power

    The orthodoxy that holds together Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's 11 doesn't always translate into liberal economics.

    21 April 2019 6:38 PM IST

    BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new low

    Advani finds this vulgarisation caused by the overlapping of party and Sangh Parivar painful only because he feels...

    9 April 2019 12:28 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Battle for future: India, UK face decision time

    The election campaign for the 17th Lok Sabha is obsessed with trivia and full of personal invective.

    26 March 2019 12:07 AM IST

    At least 49 were killed and 20 were injured after a gunman opened fire on Friday prayers at a mosque in New Zealand killing many worshippers and forcing the city of Christchurch into lockdown as police launched a massive manhunt. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Anti-Islam fanaticism a growing global trend

    Senator Anning is the only mainstream politician to extend even qualified approval to the motives that supposedly...

    18 March 2019 12:31 AM IST

    Jawaharlal NehruOpinion
    Why Delhi should talk to all sides in Kashmir

    Second, the grey eminence of the accession was his sworn enemy, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, whom Jawaharlal Nehru had...

    12 March 2019 2:36 AM IST

    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (Photo; PTI)Opinion
    No reason for India to court the OIC

    It prompted OIC members gathered in Rabat for their first summit (of which more later) to think again about including...

    26 Feb 2019 2:16 AM IST

    Govt shares Rafale price details with the SC, makes public timeline of negotiations that preceded the deal in a bid to dispel doubts about alleged wrongdoing.(Representational image)Opinion
    The Rafale effect: Make PMO's primacy official?

    French industry may enjoy that freedom but no defence company in India has any existence outside the realm of official...

    12 Feb 2019 12:00 AM IST

    N. Chandrababu NaiduOpinion
    States' new diplomacy': Amaravati as Singapore?

    The 217 sq km greenfield capital city of Amaravati on the Krishna river could be another.

    29 Jan 2019 12:51 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    UK wake-up call: Need for a rethink on Brexit

    Johnson has a twofold interpretation of Parliament's rejection of her Brexit proposal.

    17 Jan 2019 12:13 AM IST

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