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

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

Unlike Italians and other Continentals, Indians, like all former colonials, nurse a certain guilty pride about proficiency in English. (Representational Image)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | English Hinglish: Taking liberties with...

Hinglish, a cherished reminder of the Raj that we love to hate, will forever remain India's pride and glory

11 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinas President Xi Jinping (L) shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will US & China engage or confront each other?

People are clutching at the prospect of a rapprochement after last November's Bali G-20 meeting between Joe Biden and Xi...

29 March 2023 12:04 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inaugural ceremony of Aero India 2023, in Bengaluru, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Not era of war': India needs to push Ukraine...

The International Crisis Group has its eye on 10 global wars that might explode during 2023

15 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the BJPs state unit president, objects that the newly-built domed state secretariat symbolises slavery: domes recall the culture of the Nizams. (Photo: Twitter/@bandisanjay_bjp)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | In search of conspiracies, with no sense of the...

Honesty demands giving credit where credit is due. Foreigners are blamed for many things, but they preserved India's...

1 March 2023 12:00 AM IST