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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Hamas, which rules the territory, held Ahmad Said Barhoum for several months without trial before handing him over to the family, several of whose members belong to the Islamist movement. (Photo: Representational | AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | In Hamas, has Bibi found the enemy Israel...

    Hamas was not formally outlawed by the Israeli military authorities until 1989

    9 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Nari Shakti Vandan-Abhinandan Karyakram, a day after Parliament passed the womens reservation bill, at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, on Friday. (Image: PTI)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Caste and colonialism: From India to Mideast

    Israel's employment situation might help to explain these unlikely Jews

    25 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Palestinian health officials reported scores of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP/PTI)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can India play constructive role for peace in...

    Palestinians will never accept their present subordinate position as permanent subjugation.

    11 Oct 2023 1:14 AM IST

    Singapore cuts 2020 GDP outlook again as virus batters economy. (AFP Photo)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | A beacon for a future that is transformed

    Singaporeans can visit 192 out of 227 international destinations without visas

    27 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden during the State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington DC, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Modi, Biden had the last laugh as Xi stayed...

    Hyderabad's Nizam wouldn't have been gallivanting elsewhere during Operation Polo, would he?

    13 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

    From left, Brazils President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinas President Xi Jinping, South Africas President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russias Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS group photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India-China peace vital for Brics to acquire...

    As India tries to retain its influence, China crowed over the bonus of new friends and proteges.

    31 Aug 2023 12:02 AM IST

    An Indian ragpicker collects reusable material from a garbage dump. Coronavirus pandemic could plunge an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Caste and poverty: How India's confusion grows

    How long, O Lord, how long?

    16 Aug 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma clarified that there is no instruction from the Centre to make Hindi learning compulsory. (DC)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Inter-faith unions still a threat' in Digital...

    Himanta Biswa Sarma, warned Assamese youths not to cross the lakhsman rekha by marrying girls from another faith.

    2 Aug 2023 12:32 AM IST

    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Memories of another day: Of media & power brokersOpinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Memories of another day: Of media & power...

    Politics and journalism have always been two sides of the same coin.

    21 July 2023 12:02 AM IST

    Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flag raising ceremony on the ferry Marshal Rokossovsky via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on March 4, 2022. (Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | US needs Russia rethink to avert a new Cold War

    The long hand of the Central Intelligence Agency reached into some unlikely places during the Cold War. It may be doing...

    6 July 2023 12:09 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden hold talks on the sidelines of Quad Summit meeting, in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (PTI)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | As India, US draw closer, Delhi must stay...

    PM Modi and his advisers must carefully balance India's permanent national interests

    20 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

    File photo of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky walking along tranches with border guard officers as he inspects the state border with Russian Federation in Sumy region. (Ukrainian Presidential Press/AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ukraine to get peace only if both sides can...

    A permanent European military presence in Ukraine would rubbish Moscow's claim of defending Russia against Nato by...

    23 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

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