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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    As Japan enters the ‘Reiwa’ era, India must focus on boosting strategic tiesOpinion
    As Japan enters the ‘Reiwa’ era, India must focus on boosting...

    Japan’s deeply venerated emperors do not exercise even the informal political influence that Britain’s Queen...

    7 May 2019 4:56 AM IST

    Sri Lanka’s horror is a grim warning to IndiaOpinion
    Sri Lanka’s horror is a grim warning to India

    Eventually the armed insurgent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam emerged in 1976 to fight for a Tamil homeland in the...

    23 April 2019 1:46 AM IST

    Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new lowOpinion
    Politics turning vulgar: Discourse hits new low

    Advani finds this vulgarisation caused by the overlapping of party and Sangh Parivar painful only because he feels...

    9 April 2019 1:21 AM IST

    Battle for future: India, UK face decision timeOpinion
    Battle for future: India, UK face decision time

    The election campaign for the 17th Lok Sabha is obsessed with trivia and full of personal invective.

    26 March 2019 2:11 AM IST

    Anti-Islam fanaticism a growing global trendOpinion
    Anti-Islam fanaticism a growing global trend

    That coupling of “Muslim” with “fanatics” is bound to resonate in many non-Muslim circles.

    18 March 2019 12:08 AM IST

    Jawaharlal NehruOpinion
    Why Delhi should talk to all sides in Kashmir

    Second, the grey eminence of the accession was his sworn enemy, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, whom Jawaharlal Nehru had...

    12 March 2019 2:41 AM IST

    Sushma Swaraj said that she has directed concerned authorities to be cautious while processing applications of the affected persons for re-issuance of their passports. (Photo: File | ANI)Opinion
    No reason for India to court the OIC

    It prompted OIC members gathered in Rabat for their first summit (of which more later) to think again about including...

    26 Feb 2019 12:23 AM IST

    Experience has made Indians too cynical to accept at face value the official plea that the confidentiality clause in the Rafale agreement bars the buyer and the seller from talking about the pricing and forbids the government to reveal details about defence deals. (Representational image)Opinion
    The Rafale effect: Make PMO's primacy official?

    French industry may enjoy that freedom but no defence company in India has any existence outside the realm of official...

    12 Feb 2019 12:50 AM IST

    N. Chandrababu NaiduOpinion
    States' new diplomacy': Amaravati as Singapore?

    Treating regions instead of nations as economic or diplomatic partners sounds like a Singaporean innovation.

    29 Jan 2019 2:34 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    UK wake-up call: Need for a rethink on Brexit

    Johnson has a twofold interpretation of Parliament's rejection of her Brexit proposal.

    17 Jan 2019 12:58 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    Reflections: When will PM hold his first press conference?

    The missing interaction between politician and public is a gap at the heart of our democracy.

    15 Jan 2019 7:48 AM IST

    father, son and the centre stage: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (right) along with his son K.T. Rama Rao during one of the election rallies. The TRS party was formed with the sole aim carving out a separate Telangana state. Now, Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has set his eyes on national politics.Sunday Chronicle
    Linguistic, religious, cultural identities to rise

    Winds of change are blowing in India and abroad which can be seen in the world of politics and geostrategic positions.

    6 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

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