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

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Eco mess, climate of hate, Covid: Tough days...

The World Bank reckons that its share of the gross domestic product dropped from 43 per cent in 1967 to 16 per cent in...

6 Jan 2022 1:55 AM IST

President Ram Nath Kovind being welcomed as the Guest of Honour by Bangladesh President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the gala celebrations of Mujib Borsho and Golden Jubilee of Independence of Bangladesh, in Dhaka (PTI Photo)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | How the past overwhelms Bangla's present &...

Culturally, economically, politically and strategically, the present and future of the 2 countries are too closely...

22 Dec 2021 7:07 AM IST

The diaspora would not have swollen to more than 30 million if Indians had found India a more attractive place to live in. (Representational Image. AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | New messiahs of diaspora: India's success or...

The answer to the dilemma lies at home

8 Dec 2021 2:50 AM IST

However casual and cavalier it may have sounded, Mr Modis November 19 address could mark a new beginning. (PTI)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will repeal of farm laws mark a new beginning?

The manner in which the three laws were hustled through the two Houses of Parliament suggested little respect for...

24 Nov 2021 3:43 AM IST

Sunita Narain, director-general of the Centre for Science and Environment, warns that global warming presents the world with an existential threat. (DC File Image)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can India deliver on 2070 Net Zero Glasgow...

China, has promised to reach net zero levels by 2060, beating India by a decade

10 Nov 2021 2:32 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | South Asia confederation: Is it still a...

That ideal inspired Syama Prasad Mookerjee to break the law and court arrest, leading to his death, in Kashmir in 1953

27 Oct 2021 2:09 AM IST

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