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Sunanda K Datta Ray
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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    A convoy of army vehicles patrol the streets in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Future unclear in Suu Kyi country: Do generals...

    Like all those who stage coups, the Tatmadaw says it will hold a 'free and fair general election' after the emergency...

    4 Feb 2021 7:38 AM IST

    Biden, a Democrat, has promised to lift the suspension on H-1B visas, saying Trumps immigration policies are cruel (Image: AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Thoughts on democracy as Trump exits, finally

    For it should never be forgotten that 74 million Americans voted for the man who now seems bent on destroying the...

    19 Jan 2021 6:41 AM IST

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    Sunanda K Datta Ray | Hope in the new dawn after ravages of 2020?

    India's rich became richer amidst the pain and penury, death and disease that marked 2020 as a year of suffering

    1 Jan 2021 4:18 AM IST

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    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Boris' fumbling holds lessons for the world

    While British waters are much richer in fish than the seas surrounding Europe, British trawlers make their money selling...

    10 Dec 2020 12:05 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump delivers an update on \Operation Warp Speed\ in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | If Trumpism' outlives Trump, America loses

    During the last four years the United States suffered what former President Barack Obama calls 'truth decay'

    25 Nov 2020 1:59 AM IST

    President Donald Trump gives two thumbs up to supporters as he departs after playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Va., Sunday Nov. 8, 2020. (AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why presidential system might not suit India...

    Many world leaders secretly aspire to the methods and priorities that made Trump such a sinister authoritarian figure of...

    11 Nov 2020 11:46 AM IST

    The tapes of purported conversations between former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko and Biden when Biden was vice president during the Obama administration were flagged in a US intelligence assessment earlier this month warning of Russian interference in the upcoming election, and specifically efforts to denigrate Biden. (Photo | AP)Opinion
    Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Biden or Trump: Who's win is better for India?

    This time, too, it might be a mistake to go too much by appearances or the experiences of other parties with different...

    28 Oct 2020 9:27 AM IST

    Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane and Harsh V Shringla, Foreign Secretary along with Saurabh Kumar called on State Counsellor H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. (Via Indian Embassy in Myanmar)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta Ray | Tackle Xi in Myanmar but don't forget the...

    The electoral outcome is bound to leave a heavy imprint on Myanmar's place on the chequerboard of Asia's power politics

    12 Oct 2020 11:21 PM IST

    Earlier on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force, Army and the civil administration of Arunachal Pradesh started a massive operation to reach the crash site. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Are we ready for give & take' with China at LAC?

    Identifying the border in Arunachal is difficult because the British left large stretches of it without delineation or...

    24 Sept 2020 12:22 PM IST

    Workers at a flyover construction site during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu. AP PhotoOpinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | After COVID devastation, India to need...

    If the pandemic does end in two years, as WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus predicts, it will leave behind...

    26 Aug 2020 8:02 PM IST

    Workers hang dyed yarn for drying under the sun as seen on the National Handloom Day at a textile mill, in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Sunanda K Datta-Ray | Make India stronger in order to take on China

    As Dr Manmohan Singh, has always reiterated, the Asian ecosystem has ample space for India and China both to grow...

    12 Aug 2020 4:58 PM IST

    US President Donald Trump and Chinas President Xi Jinping (AFP)Opinion
    Sunanda K Datta Ray | As US, China spar; India needs to fend for...

    India must consider its own long-term geopolitical imperatives more than American overtures

    29 July 2020 4:51 PM IST

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