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

Palestinian health officials reported scores of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP/PTI)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 brokers

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)

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)

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)

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

US President Joe Biden, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 leaders summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (Image: AP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Amidst waffling over China, US-India embrace...

It is India's permanent dilemma that complacency about foreign policy alternatives leads to a fatal complacency about...

11 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Britains newly appointed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech outside 10 Downing Street in central London, on October 25, 2022. - Rishi Sunak was Tuesday appointed as Britains third prime minister this year, after outgoing leader Liz Truss submitted her resignation to King Charles III. (Photo: AFP))

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Coronation frenzy in UK as crises plague Sunak,...

The betting now is on who will be next as a whiff of concealment if not corruption hangs over Mr Sunak and his wife

28 April 2023 12:00 AM IST