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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Humayuns Tomb is illuminated displaying the logo of G20 Summit 2023, to be held in India, in New Delhi. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Don’t set bar too high for India’s G-20...

    India could hardly have begun its presidency of the G-20 group with a more resounding manifestation of Narendra...

    8 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Simon Stiell, U.N. climate chief, speaks during a closing plenary session at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Deal on climate, but hard decisions put off...

    Hearing Gianni Infantino, Fifa’s Swiss-born ethnic Italian president, declare “I think for what we Europeans...

    23 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    The police on Monday arrested nine persons, including four from the Oreva group that was managing the Morbi bridge, and filed a case against firms tasked with its maintenance and operation. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Any corner can be cut in a ‘land of...

    Heaven help India if the Morbi bridge collapse reflects the so-called “Gujarat model” that we are constantly...

    9 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Rishi Sunak addresses Conservative Party members during a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Rishi make history as Britain looks for...

    Prescient British opinion-makers stopped speaking of a Diwali deadline for the proposed free trade agreement with India...

    24 Oct 2022 3:28 AM IST

    The CPC under its overlord Xi Jinping refuses to play second fiddle to any global power. (AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Xi as new Mao? India & China face testing time

    Mao Zedong walks again. Engrossed as the whole of China is in the 20th National People’s Congress due to...

    14 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Though the GDP numbers grew with low base effect, there are also other significant reasons which suggest a recovery in the economy. (Twitter)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | The other side of life in the 5th largest...

    The jubilation over India’s GDP outstripping Britain’s is a reminder that Indians often take pride in...

    28 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Britains King Charles III and the Queen Consort meet wellwishers outside Hillsborough Castle, Belfast, Tuesday Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | As King, will Charles III stay true to his...

    Significantly, the accession of Britain’s King Charles III has not prompted recollections of ex-King Farouk of...

    14 Sept 2022 12:07 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a ‘flexible’ Liz Truss usher in...

    Hurtling from one crisis to another, Britain has chosen a new Prime Minister whose ambition has seldom been reined...

    7 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

    Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha inspects the parade after unfurling the national flag during 76th Independence Day celebrations at Sher-e- Kashmir Cricket Stadium, in Srinagar, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (PTI Photo/S. Irfan)Opinion
    Do we need governors to act as agents of Centre?

    The roots of the controversy in West Bengal, Kerala and other states over governors allegedly exceeding their roles can...

    30 Aug 2022 8:55 AM IST

    European Union flags are seen in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. (AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Ukraine is a better fit for EU than Britain...

    A leading Danish politician used to say that thanks to its Indian experience, Britain was too colonially cosmopolitan to...

    17 Aug 2022 12:13 AM IST

    Rishi Sunak & Liz TrussOpinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | UK bristles over migration, race as Sunak, Truss...

    Boris Johnson’s Britain bristles with contradictions. It’s not only that two of his senior ministers are...

    4 Aug 2022 1:20 AM IST

    Girls display their arms painted with message Ranil go home referring to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the protest site in Colombo. (AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Keep race, religion out in a Sri Lankan revival...

    It sounds remote but newspaper pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla attending a Hindu...

    17 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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