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

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been detained in Uttar Pradeshs Sitapur while on her way to visit violence-hit Lakhimpur district, speaks to the media virtually. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Priyanka to lead UP race? Cong must stop...

With or without Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress alone cannot correct the distortions arising from this massive...

13 Oct 2021 1:20 AM IST

Former US President George W. Bush had gone a step further. He saw Australia not as a deputy sheriff but as a sheriff. (AFP Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Quad, AUKUS challenge: How will China respond?

Nearly 20 years ago John Howard, Australian Prime Minister from 1996 to 2007, described his country as America's deputy...

29 Sept 2021 2:49 AM IST

Prime Minister Modi chairing the COVID review meeting. (ANI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | 20 years after 9/11: India must adapt to new...

Even a 'Hinduist' India's aim should be to secure the goodwill of a stable Afghanistan that is not a base for terrorist...

13 Sept 2021 3:22 AM IST

Since Dhondys title Fragments Against My Ruin, taken from The Waste Land, has been interpreted in many ways, one cant be sure of his precise meaning. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | An immigrant's progress and other scoops from Old...

Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough's film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma's daughter?

12 Sept 2021 2:30 AM IST

The CCS approved the procurement of 73 Tejas Mk-1A fighter aircraft and 10 Tejas Mk-1 trainer aircraft at the cost of Rs 45,696 crores, along with the design and development of infrastructure sanctions worth Rs 1,202 crores. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India must be watchful as it begins Taliban...

The Sifarat-e-Hind, as the embassy is called, in Shahre Nau, was one of India's best guarded diplomatic establishments

2 Sept 2021 1:05 AM IST

Chief Justice Ramanas strictures on police methods and condemnation of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code on sedition apply to all three nations, not just India, where the tragedy of the late Father Stan Swamy heaped shame and disgrace on the authorities. (Twitter)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Colonial era tools don't belong in a democracy

Justice delayed is justice denied, especially in district and subordinate courts where 33.3 million cases were pending...

17 Aug 2021 2:06 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a delegation level meeting, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India must avoid getting entangled in US...

It was a warning that despite PM Modi's right-wing bias, too close a relationship with the US is not in India's...

3 Aug 2021 11:59 AM IST

Security personnel inspect a damaged vehicle which was firing rockets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace on Tuesday shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-a-Adha. (AP)

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Afghan turmoil, Pak role: What keeps India...

The spectre of Afghanistan again under the fundamentalist Taliban haunts global thinking

21 July 2021 12:28 AM IST

As Mao rides again, his successor should not forget that the point of his tale about the one and a half wars was that India and China are not doomed to perpetual enmity. (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India-China peace: Who will take the first...

China's disdain for verbal gymnastics recalls Deng Xiaoping's advice to hide your strength and bide your time

8 July 2021 12:45 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Biden B3W vs China BRI: Is India the odd man...

India can expect even less sympathy (and no support!) from ASEAN, whose collective trade with China jumped last year to...

22 Jun 2021 7:03 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why monopoly of power is a threat to democracy

In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition

10 Jun 2021 1:03 AM IST

Palestinian children hold candles during a rally amid the ruins of houses destroyed by Israeli strikes, in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Israel & Gaza: Use truce to find a lasting...

Although both adversaries accomplished their immediate political goals, the fragile peace can collapse any moment

25 May 2021 7:23 AM IST