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Sunanda K Datta Ray
About the AuthorSunanda K Datta Ray
Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Book Review | What Indira Was ThinkingBooks
    Book Review | What Indira Was Thinking

    Frank pins Indira badges on dhotis, turns C.R. Das into an Allahabad-wallah, delays the Bangladesh war by a decade to...

    21 Jun 2025 3:50 PM IST

    Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism WonBooks
    Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism Won

    While Reed’s book is now of mainly archival interest, Ashis Ray’s recalls history in the making

    17 May 2025 1:40 PM IST

    Mamata BanerjeeColumnists
    Reflections | Blow to Teachers Might be Biggest Crisis for Mamata |...

    On April 3, the Supreme Court cited extensive fraud in the recruitment process to sack thousands of state-run and...

    29 April 2025 1:46 AM IST

    REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv | Sunanda K. Datta-RayColumnists
    REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv |...

    Clearly, Mr Vance missed the symbolic defiance of Mr Zelenskyy’s military-style black sweatshirt adorned with Ukraine’s...

    11 March 2025 11:04 PM IST

    \Potus wanted nothing less than President Zelensky to go to the microphone and say investigations, Biden and Clinton,\ Kent testified. (Photo: File)Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump’s Ukraine gambit to make Europe the real...

    Trump’s $500B “payback” demand for Ukraine sparks concerns of US economic control; Europe debates security measures amid...

    26 Feb 2025 10:49 PM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Twist in American Dream: Will Trump raj help India?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Twist in American Dream: Will Trump raj help...

    If a cartoon were to sum up initial reactions to Donald Trump’s second coming, its caption should surely...

    27 Jan 2025 12:12 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will a year of global wars set off more 2025 churn?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will a year of global wars set off more 2025...

    The world was at war. The world was on the move. With crooks and conmen everywhere, Indians never knew when...

    1 Jan 2025 12:00 AM IST

    Book Review | Boris cuts corners, omits factsBooks
    Book Review | Boris cuts corners, omits facts

    Since Unleashed bristles with petty triumphs despite its tone of petulant anger, it has been called ‘self-serving’

    14 Dec 2024 1:30 PM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India’s hopes, fears rise as Trump picks ‘dream team’Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India’s hopes, fears rise as Trump picks ‘dream...

    Thanks to China, India has reason not to be displeased with the initial list of members of US President-elect...

    20 Nov 2024 12:12 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump’s America: Will it hit Indians’ hopes and dreams?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Trump’s America: Will it hit Indians’ hopes and...

    The death of a 40-year-old Indian in the icy waters of the English Channel is another reminder that the United...

    12 Nov 2024 12:18 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Migrants facing heat in UK, Europe: Indians in trouble?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Migrants facing heat in UK, Europe: Indians in...

    India’s home minister Amit Shah would have dismissed them as “termites”. Being equally unsympathetic to...

    28 Sept 2024 12:56 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Bengal introspect, or let politics go on as usual?Columnists
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Bengal introspect, or let politics go on...

    If it shows nothing else, the uproar over a shockingly brutal rape and murder in Calcutta, sorry, Kolkata,...

    29 Aug 2024 12:10 AM IST

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