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

BJP workers carry a giant cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they celebrate the partys victory in the UP and Uttarakhand Assembly elections, at the party headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Of puja, politics and Bharat

Lok Sabha TV screened the film the very evening people were celebrating Narendra Modi's spectacular sweep of the UP...

16 March 2017 2:17 AM IST

Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar (Photo: PTI)

Indians head to US in search of better days

Of course, Jaishankar can tell Shannon that 65,000 H1-B visas are issued annually only because the Americans need Indian...

28 Feb 2017 2:33 AM IST

Barack Obama (Photo: AP)

Lessons from the past for West Asian peace

Barack Obama was one of the few US Presidents since FDR to take a realistic view of the Palestinians.

14 Feb 2017 1:08 AM IST

Barack Obama (Photo: AP)

Lessons from the past for West Asian peace

Barack Obama was one of the few US Presidents since FDR to take a realistic view of the Palestinians.

14 Feb 2017 1:08 AM IST

Vijay P. Bhatkar (Photo: Facebook)

The dangers of partisan bureaucracy

India needs an impartial and objective bureaucracy that attends to public welfare without displaying partisan bias.

31 Jan 2017 5:06 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Ordinance rule: A throwback to Raj?

The relationship in practice between the ruling party at the Centre and its branches in the states is another.

17 Jan 2017 7:03 AM IST

President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo: File)

Europe can save or kill globalisation

The New Year can redress the balance of the old by recognising refugees as victims of history.

3 Jan 2017 12:25 AM IST

President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Targeting the other'

Trade and investment agreements will have to be renewed with post-Brexit Britain, the European Union and Donald Trump's...

29 Dec 2016 3:44 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting women at the launch of a cheese plant and Desi A2 Milk plant in Deesa. (Photo: PTI)

Dark days ahead if State backs bigotry

Mr Modi or Rajnath Singh do not explicitly encourage the victimisation of dalits.

20 Dec 2016 12:52 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

We need US, but let's not follow it blindly

Modi's presence at Castro's funeral would have served a dual purpose.

6 Dec 2016 3:44 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the gathering during foundation stone laying ceremony of Greenfield Airport in Mopa, Goa. (Photo: PTI)

Hypocrisy in India: Where are the rich?

Modi doesn't know how the poor are grappling with this crisis.

22 Nov 2016 12:25 AM IST