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Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a senior journalist, columnist and author.
    Journalist Jamal Khashoggi (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    India can't ignore Saudi ethics, Jamal's killing

    No healthy, productive and rewarding foreign policy can be founded on expedient pacts that are so utterly devoid of...

    23 Oct 2018 1:35 AM IST

    Myanmars Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Reflections: Why pragmatic' Suu Kyi is silent on Rohingyas

    One reason for her disinterest in the Rohingyas' plight could be religious.

    9 Oct 2018 7:40 AM IST

    RSS chief Mohan BhagwatOpinion
    Targeting English isn't way to brighter Bharat

    There is no need for Mr Bhagwat's equivalent in these countries to lecture anybody on why they “should start...

    25 Sept 2018 12:48 AM IST

    The impression is that the United States has been courting an indifferent or even hostile India all these years.Opinion
    As we get closer to US, let's not forget the past

    No doubt Donald Trump's businessman's eye on India's building boom is a contributory factor.

    11 Sept 2018 12:20 AM IST

    An aide adjusts Pope Francis cape as he speaks at the Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, on Sunday. Pope Francis was on a two-day visit to Ireland. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    In Ireland, Pope sets Church in a new direction

    Ostensibly, Pope Francis' historic two-day visit was to attend the triennial Festival of Families in Dublin.

    28 Aug 2018 12:48 AM IST

    Dread and relief over Naipauls biographyOpinion
    Dread and relief over Naipaul's biography

    Naipaul's ardour for innovation became apparent when he wrote that “things are happening” in India.

    14 Aug 2018 12:31 AM IST

    People wait to check their names on the final draft of the National Register of Citizens after it was released, at an NRC Seva Kendra in Nagaon, Assam on Monday. (Photo:PTI)Opinion
    Reflections: NRC fears, bigotry may lead to wider N-E strife

    Meghalaya shares a border of nearly 900 km with Assam, and could be a convenient refuge for individuals with nowhere...

    31 July 2018 7:42 AM IST

    Donald Trump ordered the creation of a sixth branch. (Photo: Pixabay)Opinion
    Reflections: Trump, like Indira, gets touchy about the press

    Anything that he doesn't like is dismissed as fake news . The press is the scapegoat of vain politicians.

    17 July 2018 7:21 AM IST

    The Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on the midnight of June 25, 1975 was a signal disservice to the basic idea of democracy. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Reflections: Why our netas don't need another Emergency

    Like Mrs Gandhi, Narendra Modi can also be called a directly elected PM.

    3 July 2018 1:17 AM IST

    Veteran journalist and Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar.Opinion
    Reflections: India as Lynchistan' Act before it's too late

    Nowadays, the Internet and cellphones accelerate rumours. Millions of people who are mentally still in the Middle Ages...

    19 Jun 2018 7:16 AM IST

    North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump during their first meeting at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    A triumph of faith over fact as history is made

    A denuclearised North Korea should be welcome to India for two reasons.

    14 Jun 2018 6:33 AM IST

    Pranab Mukherjee with RSS chief Mohan BhagwatOpinion
    Reflections: Of Pranab, Nagpur and the signals before 2019

    Everyone is eager to interpret the former President's acceptance.

    5 Jun 2018 1:13 AM IST

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