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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

Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism Won

Book Review | INA Trials: How Pragmatism Won

While Reed’s book is now of mainly archival interest, Ashis Ray’s recalls history in the making

17 May 2025 12:31 PM IST

Reflections | Blow to Teachers Might be Biggest Crisis for Mamata | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Reflections | Blow to Teachers Might be Biggest Crisis for Mamata | ...

On April 3, the Supreme Court cited extensive fraud in the recruitment process to sack thousands of state-run and...

29 April 2025 12:43 AM IST

REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv | Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

REFLECTIONS | Dressing down at Oval: A power statement by Kyiv |...

Clearly, Mr Vance missed the symbolic defiance of Mr Zelenskyy’s military-style black sweatshirt adorned with Ukraine’s...

11 March 2025 10:55 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Twist in American Dream: Will Trump raj help India?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Twist in American Dream: Will Trump raj help...

If a cartoon were to sum up initial reactions to Donald Trump’s second coming, its caption should surely repeat that...

27 Jan 2025 12:10 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | B’desh, India must bury the past, make a new beginning

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | B’desh, India must bury the past, make a new...

It would be great if reports of Bangladesh’s readiness to buy rice from India indicate a return to normal cooperation...

17 Jan 2025 12:10 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will a year of global wars set off more 2025 churn?

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Will a year of global wars set off more 2025...

The world was at war. The world was on the move. With crooks and conmen everywhere, Indians never knew when the...

1 Jan 2025 12:00 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Many dangers in Mideast ahead; Syria up for grabs

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Many dangers in Mideast ahead; Syria up for...

What West Asia needs is not ecstatic triumphalism but peace and reconciliation that will allow all factions in Syria,...

19 Dec 2024 12:00 AM IST

Book Review | Boris cuts corners, omits facts

Book Review | Boris cuts corners, omits facts

Since Unleashed bristles with petty triumphs despite its tone of petulant anger, it has been called ‘self-serving’

14 Dec 2024 1:28 PM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India’s hopes, fears rise as Trump picks ‘dream team’

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | India’s hopes, fears rise as Trump picks ‘dream...

Thanks to China, India has reason not to be displeased with the initial list of members of US President-elect Donald ...

20 Nov 2024 12:10 AM IST