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Sunanda K Datta Ray

All stories by Sunanda K Datta Ray

Finding food and drink in London
Rediff.com26 Dec 2020

'London being Tier 2, pubs can serve drinks but only with a 'substantial meal',' sighs...

What I got when I flew Air India for Rs 169,613
Rediff.com14 Dec 2020

Even a rump Air India could not hope to get away with the shoddy service and scrappy...

What will post-Covid India look like?
Rediff.com30 Aug 2020

'The norm will be even less public accountability, even less transparency, tweets...

What Modi can learn from Singapore's Lee
Rediff.com8 Aug 2020

'Lee Kuan Yew told me he used to look to India, especially the writings of Nehru and...

What if India banned Chinese restaurants...
Rediff.com11 Jul 2020

China will flood direct flights to India with wholesale takeaways of the authentic...

America's race bitterness erupts in India's communal bitterness
Rediff.com26 Jun 2020

'India shares the world's pain, but India's pain is not the world's.' 'Little that...

The Marie Antoinette of Indian politics
Rediff.com6 Jun 2020

'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.' 'That...

Lockdown or lawless tyranny?
Rediff.com10 May 2020

We may be witnessing a slow erosion of the democratic republic and the emergence of the...

The tragedy of Indian workers abroad
Rediff.com23 Apr 2020

'This country's backwardness is exposed when Indians bribe, coax and cajole agents to...

Namaste is the new Hello!
Rediff.com8 Apr 2020

The bear hug in which the Prime Minister loves to smother Western VIPs might strike as...

From raja to praja:Jyotiraditya's likely role in BJP
Rediff.com29 Mar 2020

They will fawn over a prize catch who has brought a rich dowry of Gwalior-Chambal...

Why India is a poor country of very rich people
Rediff.com12 Feb 2020

'Nowhere amidst the efflorescence of 13 military bands, 16 marching contingents and 22...

The Reinvention of India's Past
Rediff.com6 Feb 2020

The BJP's message is that the past must be reinvented as creatively as imagination...

What's all the hullabaloo over CAA!
Rediff.com18 Jan 2020

'Whatever the legal position, it is my understanding that in practice, the Indian...

Why Indians are immigrating illegally
Rediff.com21 Dec 2019

Driven by hardship, adventurous souls mortgage their homesteads in Punjab or Haryana,...

Abhijit's Nobel and the challenges ahead
Rediff.com4 Nov 2019

'The fruition of Nobel's hope lies in the response of a caring government that can rise...

Jallianwala Bagh apology: Should we really care?
Rediff.com21 Apr 2019

I can't see what purpose can be served by an apology by a British government that...

Did Doval exchange a princess for Christian Michel?
Rediff.com17 Dec 2018

'As she was dragged off the yacht, the princess cried, "I won't go back to the UAE,...

Is this why govt needs money from RBI?
Rediff.com7 Dec 2018

Money permits patronage. Money means power. No wonder details of the crores locked up...

Why did 17 million Indians leave India last year?
Rediff.com13 Nov 2018

When 17 million Indians seek their fortune abroad it only means people are losing faith...