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	'''Sunanda K. Datta-Ray''' is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)\|Time]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=158380&sectioncode=5\|title=Asia in a state of Confucian\|date=4 June 1999\|work = Times Higher Education\|author = Sunanda Datta-Ray\|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref> He was editor-in-Residence at the [[East-West Center]] in Honolulu.<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/AuthorSelect.asp?Author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray\|title= Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray\|publisher= indiaclub.com\|access-date= 23 January 2009\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100201011839/http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/authorselect.asp?author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray\|archive-date= 1 February 2010\|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php\|title= Meanwhile\|author= Sunanda K. Datta-Ray\|date= 7 April 1992\|work= [[International Herald Tribune]]\|access-date= 23 January 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201221411/http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php\|archive-date=2006-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070717033336/http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/\|url-status= dead\|archive-date= 17 July 2007\|title= Coming up in January 2002\|date= 21 December 2001\|publisher= East West Center\|access-date= 24 January 2009}}</ref>~~{{dead link\|reason=links are dead\|date=September 2018}}~~ He was editorial consultant<ref>{{cite news\|url= http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf\|work= Newsletter: Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge\|date= Spring 2002\|title= Seminars and Lectures at the Centre\|page= 10\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031213174909/http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf\|archive-date= 13 December 2003\|df= dmy-all}}</ref> to Singapore's ''[[The Straits Times]]'' newspaper. Datta-Ray also worked in Singapore in the mid-1970s with [[S.R. Nathan]]. After the ''Straits Times'', Datta-Ray was a supernumerary fellow of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm\|title= Colleges, Halls, and Societies\|publisher= Oxford University Gazette\|date= 2 March 2000\|access-date= 24 January 2009\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110610174824/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm\|archive-date= 10 June 2011\|url-status= dead\|df= dmy-all}}</ref>		'''Sunanda K. Datta-Ray''' is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)\|Time]]''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=158380&sectioncode=5\|title=Asia in a state of Confucian\|date=4 June 1999\|work = Times Higher Education\|author = Sunanda Datta-Ray\|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref> He was editor-in-Residence at the [[East-West Center]] in Honolulu.<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/AuthorSelect.asp?Author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray\|title= Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray\|publisher= indiaclub.com\|access-date= 23 January 2009\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100201011839/http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/authorselect.asp?author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray\|archive-date= 1 February 2010\|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php\|title= Meanwhile\|author= Sunanda K. Datta-Ray\|date= 7 April 1992\|work= [[International Herald Tribune]]\|access-date= 23 January 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201221411/http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php\|archive-date=2006-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070717033336/http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/\|url-status= dead\|archive-date= 17 July 2007\|title= Coming up in January 2002\|date= 21 December 2001\|publisher= East West Center\|access-date= 24 January 2009}}</ref> He was editorial consultant<ref>{{cite news\|url= http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf\|work= Newsletter: Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge\|date= Spring 2002\|title= Seminars and Lectures at the Centre\|page= 10\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031213174909/http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf\|archive-date= 13 December 2003\|df= dmy-all}}</ref> to Singapore's ''[[The Straits Times]]'' newspaper. Datta-Ray also worked in Singapore in the mid-1970s with [[S. R. Nathan]]. After the ''Straits Times'', Datta-Ray was a supernumerary fellow of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm\|title= Colleges, Halls, and Societies\|publisher= Oxford University Gazette\|date= 2 March 2000\|access-date= 24 January 2009\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110610174824/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm\|archive-date= 10 June 2011\|url-status= dead\|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

	Datta-Ray returned to Singapore in 2007 to work on book with [[Lee Kuan Yew]] at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 \|title=Sunanda K. Datta-Ray \|publisher=Opinion Asia \|access-date=24 January 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120034015/http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 \|archive-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> based on a series of one-on-one conversations and a host of classified documents.<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm\|title= ISEAS Conferences and Seminar Activities\|access-date= 24 January 2009\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100130222026/http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm\|archive-date= 30 January 2010\|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The book was published in 2009 as [[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]] and won that year's [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]].		Datta-Ray returned to Singapore in 2007 to work on book with [[Lee Kuan Yew]] at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 \|title=Sunanda K. Datta-Ray \|publisher=Opinion Asia \|access-date=24 January 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120034015/http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 \|archive-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> based on a series of one-on-one conversations and a host of classified documents.<ref>{{cite web\|url= http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm\|title= ISEAS Conferences and Seminar Activities\|access-date= 24 January 2009\|url-status= dead\|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100130222026/http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm\|archive-date= 30 January 2010\|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The book was published in 2009 as [[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]] and won that year's [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]].
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	==Monographs==		==Monographs==
	Datta-Ray has been published in Asia, Europe and the United States for over 40 years. He was asked to contribute to Penguin's book of 'new' Indian writing in 2005.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130125113918/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005052019960300.htm&date=2005/05/20/&prd=th& Heralding a `new generation' of Indian authors] The Hindu - 20 May 2005</ref> In addition to this Datta-Ray has penned four monographs and edited one. His "Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''" appears in the Penguin anthology ''First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India, vol. I''.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Datta-Ray\|first=Sunanda K\|chapter=Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''\|year=2005\|title=First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India\|volume=1\|publisher=Penguin Global\|publication-date=2005\|isbn=0-14-303244-5}}</ref>		Datta-Ray has been published in Asia, Europe and the United States for over 40 years. He was asked to contribute to Penguin's book of 'new' Indian writing in 2005.<ref>{{usurped\|1=[https://archive.today/20130125113918/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005052019960300.htm&date=2005/05/20/&prd=th& Heralding a `new generation' of Indian authors]}} The Hindu - 20 May 2005</ref> In addition to this Datta-Ray has penned four monographs and edited one. His "Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''" appears in the Penguin anthology ''First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India, vol. I''.<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Datta-Ray\|first=Sunanda K\|chapter=Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''\|year=2005\|title=First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India\|volume=1\|publisher=Penguin Global\|publication-date=2005\|isbn=0-14-303244-5}}</ref>

	Datta-Ray's monograph ''[[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]]'' (2009) charts aspects of [[India–Singapore relations\|Indian foreign policy with Singapore]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,\|first=Deep K.\|last=Datta-Ray\|title=India renews its affair with South-east Asia\|date=23 June 2007\|work=The Straits Times\|access-date=8 February 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928044751/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,\|archive-date=28 September 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Completely overlooked by academics, Singapore was also ignored by successive Indian prime ministers. Yet, Singapore is today the conduit for the bulk of foreign investment into India.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Securing India's Security\|last=Datta-Ray\|first=Deep K.\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=baff7560-0a49-457d-af37-80099dbd2e66&&Headline=Securing+India%u2019\|date=15 October 2007\|access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref> Based on unique access to key decision makers including [[Lee Kuan Yew]], Datta-Ray, for the first time, illuminates an essential aspect of Indian foreign relations on which hinges not only India's renewal but also the future of India's major foreign policy innovation since [[Non-Aligned Movement\|Non-Alignment]]—the 'Look East' policy.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080225-51257.html \|title = Chandra das feted on NTU appointment}}</ref>		Datta-Ray's monograph ''[[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]]'' (2009) charts aspects of [[India–Singapore relations\|Indian foreign policy with Singapore]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,\|first=Deep K.\|last=Datta-Ray\|title=India renews its affair with South-east Asia\|date=23 June 2007\|work=The Straits Times\|access-date=8 February 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928044751/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,\|archive-date=28 September 2011\|url-status=dead\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Completely overlooked by academics, Singapore was also ignored by successive Indian prime ministers. Yet, Singapore is today the conduit for the bulk of foreign investment into India.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Securing India's Security\|last=Datta-Ray\|first=Deep K.\|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=baff7560-0a49-457d-af37-80099dbd2e66&&Headline=Securing+India%u2019\|date=15 October 2007\|access-date=31 January 2009}}{{dead link\|date=August 2021\|bot=medic}}{{cbignore\|bot=medic}}</ref> Based on unique access to key decision makers including [[Lee Kuan Yew]], Datta-Ray, for the first time, illuminates an essential aspect of Indian foreign relations on which hinges not only India's renewal but also the future of India's major foreign policy innovation since [[Non-Aligned Movement\|Non-Alignment]]—the 'Look East' policy.<ref>{{Cite web \| url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080225-51257.html \|title = Chandra das feted on NTU appointment}}</ref>

	He wrote the monograph ''Waiting For America''<ref>{{cite book\|last= Datta-Ray\|first= Sunanda K.\|title= Waiting for America: India and the US in the New Millennium\|isbn= 81-7223-441-4\|year= 2002\|publisher= HarperCollins India\|pages= 471}}</ref> about which the [[Doon School]] headmaster [[Kanti Bajpai]] wrote:		He wrote the monograph ''Waiting For America''<ref>{{cite book\|last= Datta-Ray\|first= Sunanda K.\|title= Waiting for America: India and the US in the New Millennium\|isbn= 81-7223-441-4\|year= 2002\|publisher= HarperCollins India\|pages= 471}}</ref> about which the [[Doon School]] headmaster [[Kanti Bajpai]] wrote:
	<blockquote>[A] huge book ... Datta-Ray is one of India's most respected journalists. An elegant writer with an eye for story-telling and a no–nonsense analytical pen, he traces the course of [[Indo-US ties]] from the time Indira Gandhi opened them in 1982. We in India lack contemporary history of the digestible, Datta-Ray kind. This book will sit well on our shelves. We would do well to ponder the implications of Datta-Ray's analysis: Indo-US ties will be stilted as long as Americans [[Pakistan–United States relations\|see Pakistan]] as a strategic asset; India's strongest asset is its economy, hobbled by its domestic politics.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807101034/http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 \|archive-date=7 August 2007 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>[A] huge book ... Datta-Ray is one of India's most respected journalists. An elegant writer with an eye for story-telling and a no–nonsense analytical pen, he traces the course of [[Indo-US ties]] from the time Indira Gandhi opened them in 1982. We in India lack contemporary history of the digestible, Datta-Ray kind. This book will sit well on our shelves. We would do well to ponder the implications of Datta-Ray's analysis: Indo-US ties will be stilted as long as Americans [[Pakistan–United States relations\|see Pakistan]] as a strategic asset; India's strongest asset is its economy, hobbled by its domestic politics.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807101034/http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 \|archive-date=7 August 2007 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref></blockquote>

	Earlier Datta-Ray published ''Bihar Shows the Way'', a caustic take on India<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ \|title=New Nalanda \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429193600/http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ \|archive-date=29 April 2008 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all \|date=14 August 2007 }}</ref> and edited ''Issues and Challenges in Asian Journalism''<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=24 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004205757/http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 \|archive-date=4 October 2006 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}~~</ref>~~</ref>		Earlier Datta-Ray published ''Bihar Shows the Way'', a caustic take on India<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ \|title=New Nalanda \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429193600/http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ \|archive-date=29 April 2008 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all \|date=14 August 2007 }}</ref> and edited ''Issues and Challenges in Asian Journalism''<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=24 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004205757/http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 \|archive-date=4 October 2006 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

	''Smash And Grab: The Annexation of Sikkim'' (1984)<ref>{{cite book\|last= Datta-Ray\|first= Sunanda K.\|title= Smash and grab: Annexation of Sikkim\|publisher= Vikas\|pages= 338\|isbn= 0-7069-2509-2\|year= 1984}} {{Dead link\|date=September 2018}}</ref> is based on his personal friendships with the [[King of Sikkim]] and Indian decision makers.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 \|title=Indira - terror personified or goddess? \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722143044/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 \|archive-date=22 July 2012 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all \|date=7 December 2001 }}</ref> As the book described the process of the annexation of the [[Kingdom of Sikkim]] by the Indian government of [[Indira Gandhi]] in 1975, as "imperialism" it was banned in India.<ref name="pubandbedamned">{{cite news\|title=Publish and be banned\|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]\|date=18 July 2010\|access-date=23 September 2012\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100718/jsp/7days/story_12697165.jsp\|location=India}}</ref>		''Smash And Grab: The Annexation of Sikkim'' (1984)<ref>{{cite book\|last= Datta-Ray\|first= Sunanda K.\|title= Smash and grab: Annexation of Sikkim\|publisher= Vikas\|pages= 338\|isbn= 0-7069-2509-2\|year= 1984}} {{Dead link\|date=September 2018}}</ref> is based on his personal friendships with the [[King of Sikkim]] and Indian decision makers.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 \|title=Indira - terror personified or goddess? \|access-date=23 January 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722143044/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 \|archive-date=22 July 2012 \|url-status=dead \|df=dmy-all \|date=7 December 2001 }}</ref> As the book described the process of the annexation of the [[Kingdom of Sikkim]] by the Indian government of [[Indira Gandhi]] in 1975, as "imperialism" it was banned in India.<ref name="pubandbedamned">{{cite news\|title=Publish and be banned\|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]\|date=18 July 2010\|access-date=23 September 2012\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100718/jsp/7days/story_12697165.jsp\|location=India}}</ref>

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'''Sunanda K. Datta-Ray''' is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=158380&sectioncode=5|title=Asia in a state of Confucian|date=4 June 1999|work = Times Higher Education|author = Sunanda Datta-Ray|access-date=23 January 2009}}</ref> He was editor-in-Residence at the [[East-West Center]] in Honolulu.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/AuthorSelect.asp?Author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray|title= Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray|publisher= indiaclub.com|access-date= 23 January 2009|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100201011839/http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/authorselect.asp?author=Sunanda+K+Datta-Ray|archive-date= 1 February 2010|df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php|title= Meanwhile|author= Sunanda K. Datta-Ray|date= 7 April 1992|work= [[International Herald Tribune]]|access-date= 23 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201221411/http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/04/07/edsu.php|archive-date=2006-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070717033336/http://www.eastwestcenter.org/news-center/coming-up/coming-up-archive/january-2002/|url-status= dead|archive-date= 17 July 2007|title= Coming up in January 2002|date= 21 December 2001|publisher= East West Center|access-date= 24 January 2009}}</ref>{{dead link|reason=links are dead|date=September 2018}} He was editorial consultant<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf|work= Newsletter: Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge|date= Spring 2002|title= Seminars and Lectures at the Centre|page= 10|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031213174909/http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter-spring2002.pdf|archive-date= 13 December 2003|df= dmy-all}}</ref> to Singapore's ''[[The Straits Times]]'' newspaper. Datta-Ray also worked in Singapore in the mid-1970s with [[S.R. Nathan]]. After the ''Straits Times'', Datta-Ray was a supernumerary fellow of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm|title= Colleges, Halls, and Societies|publisher= Oxford University Gazette|date= 2 March 2000|access-date= 24 January 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110610174824/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1999-00/weekly/020300/coll.htm|archive-date= 10 June 2011|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref>

Datta-Ray returned to Singapore in 2007 to work on book with [[Lee Kuan Yew]] at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 |title=Sunanda K. Datta-Ray |publisher=Opinion Asia |access-date=24 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120034015/http://www.opinionasia.org/contributor/126 |archive-date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> based on a series of one-on-one conversations and a host of classified documents.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm|title= ISEAS Conferences and Seminar Activities|access-date= 24 January 2009|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100130222026/http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/iframe_conferences.htm|archive-date= 30 January 2010|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The book was published in 2009 as [[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]] and won that year's [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]].

==Personal history==
Datta Ray was born 13 December 1937 in Calcutta, and educated at [[La Martiniere Calcutta|La Martiniere for Boys School]], Calcutta. After graduating in English from the [[University of Calcutta]], Datta-Ray trained as a chartered accountant in England.

In 1958 he was with the [[Stockport Express|Stockport Advertiser]], and in 1959 with the [[The Northern Echo|Northern Echo]]. In 1960 he joined ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' as junior London correspondent. In 1960–62 he was ''The Statesman'''s roving features editor, and 1962–68 the Sunday Magazine editor. In 1980–1986 he rose to be Deputy editor and became editor in 1986.

A Hindu – though his mother is of the [[Brahmo Samaj]] — Datta-Ray had a Catholic wedding in Australia to a Bengali woman whom he met in Sydney.

Datta-Ray sees himself as the product of the intermeshing of high-caste Bengali society and upper-class English society throughout the 18th and 19th centuries which, writes Datta-Ray, has now 'vanished'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/vanished-worlds/cid/565765|title=VANISHED WORLDS|website=www.telegraphindia.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> Known as the ''Ingabanga'', Datta-Ray defined his society thus:
<blockquote>
It meant "England-worshipping Bengali" for [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. Krishna Dutta and [[W. Andrew Robinson]] translated it as "Anglomaniacs". It was always an outsider's description, never used by anglicised Bengalis themselves. Born in the heartland of that world, my grandmother spoke always of "the set".<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020623/editoria.htm#head2|title=The New Tournament|last=Datta-Ray|first=Sunanda K.|publisher=Telegraph India|access-date=30 January 2009}}</ref>
</blockquote>

Datta-Ray is a direct descendant of [[Behari Lal Gupta|B.L.Gupta]] who was one of three Indians (the others were [[Surendranath Banerjea]] and [[Romesh Chunder Dutt]]) who in 1869, after tackling British ethnic nationalism, became the first Indian civilian in the [[Indian Civil Service]]. B.L. Gupta was educated at [[University College London]]. Datta-Ray's grandfather, K.P. Basu, went to [[Downing College]], Cambridge and Basu's sister is the mother of India's former Chief of Army Staff [[Shankar Roychowdhury]]. Another ancestor is Jatin Sen Gupta and his wife the English woman [[Nellie Sengupta]] who was the first woman President of the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|title=MEANWHILE : Sonia Gandhi and my great-aunt Nellie|last=Datta-Ray|first=Sunanda K.|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/05/18/edray_ed3_.php|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904140633/http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/05/18/edray_ed3_.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 September 2012|date=18 May 2004|access-date=30 January 2009}}</ref> Datta-Ray's father was a student at the [[London School of Economics]].

Datta-Ray's is a member of the [[India International Centre]] and London's [[Travellers Club]]. He is also a member of the [[Bengal Club]] and the [[Calcutta Club]]. He resigned from the [[National Liberal Club]] (London).

==Monographs==
Datta-Ray has been published in Asia, Europe and the United States for over 40 years. He was asked to contribute to Penguin's book of 'new' Indian writing in 2005.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130125113918/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005052019960300.htm&date=2005/05/20/&prd=th& Heralding a `new generation' of Indian authors] The Hindu - 20 May 2005</ref> In addition to this Datta-Ray has penned four monographs and edited one. His "Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''" appears in the Penguin anthology ''First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India, vol. I''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Datta-Ray|first=Sunanda K|chapter=Didima: The Last ''Ingabanga''|year=2005|title=First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India|volume=1|publisher=Penguin Global|publication-date=2005|isbn=0-14-303244-5}}</ref>

Datta-Ray's monograph ''[[Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India]]'' (2009) charts aspects of [[India–Singapore relations|Indian foreign policy with Singapore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,|first=Deep K.|last=Datta-Ray|title=India renews its affair with South-east Asia|date=23 June 2007|work=The Straits Times|access-date=8 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928044751/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,7535,|archive-date=28 September 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Completely overlooked by academics, Singapore was also ignored by successive Indian prime ministers. Yet, Singapore is today the conduit for the bulk of foreign investment into India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Securing India's Security|last=Datta-Ray|first=Deep K.|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=baff7560-0a49-457d-af37-80099dbd2e66&&Headline=Securing+India%u2019|date=15 October 2007|access-date=31 January 2009}}</ref> Based on unique access to key decision makers including [[Lee Kuan Yew]], Datta-Ray, for the first time, illuminates an essential aspect of Indian foreign relations on which hinges not only India's renewal but also the future of India's major foreign policy innovation since [[Non-Aligned Movement|Non-Alignment]]—the 'Look East' policy.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080225-51257.html |title = Chandra das feted on NTU appointment}}</ref>

He wrote the monograph ''Waiting For America''<ref>{{cite book|last= Datta-Ray|first= Sunanda K.|title= Waiting for America: India and the US in the New Millennium|isbn= 81-7223-441-4|year= 2002|publisher= HarperCollins India|pages= 471}}</ref> about which the [[Doon School]] headmaster [[Kanti Bajpai]] wrote:
<blockquote>[A] huge book ... Datta-Ray is one of India's most respected journalists. An elegant writer with an eye for story-telling and a no–nonsense analytical pen, he traces the course of [[Indo-US ties]] from the time Indira Gandhi opened them in 1982. We in India lack contemporary history of the digestible, Datta-Ray kind. This book will sit well on our shelves. We would do well to ponder the implications of Datta-Ray's analysis: Indo-US ties will be stilted as long as Americans [[Pakistan–United States relations|see Pakistan]] as a strategic asset; India's strongest asset is its economy, hobbled by its domestic politics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807101034/http://www.outlookindia.com/archivecontents.asp?fnt=20021125 |archive-date=7 August 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref></blockquote>

Earlier Datta-Ray published ''Bihar Shows the Way'', a caustic take on India<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ |title=New Nalanda |access-date=23 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429193600/http://bullcrossing.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/on-new-nalanda/ |archive-date=29 April 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all |date=14 August 2007 }}</ref> and edited ''Issues and Challenges in Asian Journalism''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 |title=Archived copy |access-date=24 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004205757/http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39352 |archive-date=4 October 2006 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref></ref>

''Smash And Grab: The Annexation of Sikkim'' (1984)<ref>{{cite book|last= Datta-Ray|first= Sunanda K.|title= Smash and grab: Annexation of Sikkim|publisher= Vikas|pages= 338|isbn= 0-7069-2509-2|year= 1984}} {{Dead link|date=September 2018}}</ref> is based on his personal friendships with the [[King of Sikkim]] and Indian decision makers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 |title=Indira - terror personified or goddess? |access-date=23 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722143044/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=166151&sectioncode=22 |archive-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all |date=7 December 2001 }}</ref> As the book described the process of the annexation of the [[Kingdom of Sikkim]] by the Indian government of [[Indira Gandhi]] in 1975, as "imperialism" it was banned in India.<ref name="pubandbedamned">{{cite news|title=Publish and be banned|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]]|date=18 July 2010|access-date=23 September 2012|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100718/jsp/7days/story_12697165.jsp|location=India}}</ref>

Datta-Ray's views on ‘The Rangzen Myth’ have been challenged.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://tibettruth.com/2015/05/26/mr-sunanda-k-datta-ray-be-advised-that-rangzen-is-no-myth/ |title = Mr Sunanda K. Datta-Ray be Advised That Rangzen is No Myth!|date = 26 May 2015}}</ref> The article claims "mysterious" changes in the reports on the Tibet at conferences.
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