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Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a journalist and author of several books. He is an Open contributor

Let’s Speak in English
Essay
Let’s Speak in English

Beyond the political uses of Hindi is the inevitable language of the future

27 April 2017
Relatives pay their last repects to Kuchibhotla in Hyderabad
Essay
Death in Kansas City

Srinivas Kuchibhotla paid with his life for his optimism

02 March 2017
Queen Elizabeth II wearing the crown with the Kohinoor diamond, 1976
Books
Imperial Greed

Britain was not a benign overlord

24 January 2017
Sports and leisure in Calcutta, 1970
New Year Double Issue
In Search of the True Bengali

The persistence of an identity dispute

22 December 2016
Feroze Gandhi with young Rajiv Gandhi, Indira and Jawaharlal Nehru
Books
An Enduring Enigma

This is a necessary book about a neglected man, and it’s all the more creditable that a foreigner should have taken the trouble to write it

07 December 2016
Fidel Castro
Essay
Farewell Fidel

The Communist who made history after the end of history

01 December 2016
Donald Trump
Essay
The Last White Backlash

With his flaxen mop and delicately gesticulating hands, Trump put his money on India long before the Republican Hindu Coalition discovered him

10 November 2016
Political Fortunes
Wealth Issue 2016: Essay
Political Fortunes

The ideological colours of money

27 October 2016
PV Narasimha Rao
Essay
PV Narasimha Rao: The Saga of the Southerner

An anecdotal portrait of the PV Narasimha Rao you may not know

13 October 2016
Mamata Banerjee
Essay
Bengal De-Westernised

The counter-revolution of Mamata Banerjee

18 August 2016

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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