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

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

What desi son-in-law' at No 10 really wants

Britain's PM calls himself India's son-in-law . Presumably, the reference is to his divorced second wife's mother who...

30 July 2019 12:00 AM IST

President Donald Trump says Iran wants to make a deal. (Photo:AP)

Trump, Saudis & Iran: Is toppling in the offing?

The measure seeks to authorise the President to suspend US visas of Saudi citizens, including specifically government...

18 July 2019 12:05 AM IST

Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan

Hyderabad old & new: Symbol of changing India

This obliteration of distinction for the global symbols of anonymous affluence is an all-India phenomenon.

2 July 2019 7:37 AM IST

The reality here is Pakistan and its jihad-fi-sabilillah (meaning in the cause of Allah ) campaign of terrorism against India.

To fight terror, words won't do, action is vital

India's concern is Kashmir-centric terrorism inspired and abetted by Pakistan.

18 Jun 2019 3:34 AM IST

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee

Didi needs to shift, offer Bengal a brighter future

A secular Trinamul Congress frantically courting minority Muslims has no chance against the juggernaut of these forces...

4 Jun 2019 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Modi must now unite all of India to take it forward

Nearly 200 million Muslims can't be brushed under the carpet, or brushed into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

24 May 2019 2:35 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the Kedarnath valley on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

The norms of Indian society seem to have changed. Our priorities are...

Ironically, well-meaning observers abroad hailed the verdict of the hustings five years ago as a much-needed return to...

21 May 2019 7:16 AM IST

Pledging to work as a symbol of the people, Naruhito, 59, was formally invested as emperor the day after. (Photo:AP)

As Japan enters the Reiwa' era, India must focus on boosting strategic...

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

7 May 2019 1:39 AM IST

The Sunday attacks were the worst ever against Sri Lankas small Christian minority. (Photo:AP)

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 12:05 AM IST

The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tranquebar, Rs 799.

Of Sangh personalities in power

The orthodoxy that holds together Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay's 11 doesn't always translate into liberal economics.

21 April 2019 6:38 PM IST

BJP senior leader LK Advani during the release of the Commemorative volumes on Chandra Shekhar and Jagannath Rao Joshi at the Parliament Library building in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

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 12:28 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May at a press conference at Downing Street in central London. (Photo: AFP)

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 12:07 AM IST