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

REFLECTIONS | Widening Tax Net In India: Will Tail Still Wag The Dog? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Widening Tax Net In India: Will Tail Still Wag The Dog?...

Filing tax returns may seem like just another feel-good formality for the more and more individuals whose numbers...

3 Feb 2026 9:44 PM IST

Reflections | Amid US Threats, Tehran Burns: Is There Way Out? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Amid US Threats, Tehran Burns: Is There Way Out? |...

Protests are nothing new in Iran. Ever since the 1979 Islamic revolution, some 93 million Iranians have battled a...

19 Jan 2026 10:10 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will 28-point Trump Plan Lead To Peace In Ukraine? |...

Ironically, neither Ukraine nor the world might have feared this larger global peril if Ukraine had not been one of four...

5 Dec 2025 10:02 PM IST

Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Can South Asia Prosper With India-Pak Détente? | Sunanda...

Pakistan’s armed forces are only between two-and-a-half to three times smaller than India’s, having been built up at the...

24 Nov 2025 10:04 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & India’s Rocky American Saga

REFLECTIONS | Modi, Trump & India’s Rocky American Saga

India wasn’t an American priority and a meeting might have disappointed Indians fed on propaganda about this country...

6 Nov 2025 9:23 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Synagogue Attack Exposes Britain’s Cauldron Of Hate | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Synagogue Attack Exposes Britain’s Cauldron Of Hate |...

The sequence of events seems like a nightmare now compared with the Manchester in whose warm friendship my adolescent...

8 Oct 2025 1:00 AM IST

REFLECTIONS | Can Delhi, Beijing Avoid The Mistakes Of The Past? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Can Delhi, Beijing Avoid The Mistakes Of The Past? |...

That tale seems apposite as members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a strategic forum of four democracies...

12 Sept 2025 11:41 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Will Trump’s Man In Delhi Help India Mend Fences? |...

India must also beware of the sleight of hand practised by some American diplomats when Jawaharlal Nehru was clamouring...

29 Aug 2025 10:06 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Trump’s Tariffs: Targeting Of India Has A Long History | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Trump’s Tariffs: Targeting Of India Has A Long History |...

Not that India is a stranger to the blunt bullying practised by some North American politicians. Although Prime Minister...

14 Aug 2025 11:53 PM IST

REFLECTIONS | Can Commonwealth Find A Role, With Help From India? | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Can Commonwealth Find A Role, With Help From India? |...

The 56-member Commonwealth might even succeed in devising a peace formula for a West Asia whose warring entities --...

17 July 2025 10:46 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Trump’s ‘Hammer’ Create a New West Asia?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will Trump’s ‘Hammer’ Create a New West Asia?

To complicate matters, Narendra Modi’s India, too, enjoys close diplomatic and defence ties with Israel while viewing...

3 July 2025 8:42 PM IST

Book Review | What Indira Was Thinking

Book Review | What Indira Was Thinking

Frank pins Indira badges on dhotis, turns C.R. Das into an Allahabad-wallah, delays the Bangladesh war by a decade to...

21 Jun 2025 3:51 PM IST