Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Born (1937-12-13) 13 December 1937 (age 86)
Calcutta, British India
EducationUniversity of Calcutta
OccupationJournalist
SpouseMarried (once)
Children1

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (born 13 December 1937) is an Indian journalist. He has been editor of The Statesman (Calcutta and New Delhi) and has also written for the International Herald Tribune and Time.[1] He was editor-in-Residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu.[2][3][4] He was editorial consultant[5] 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.[6]

Datta-Ray returned to Singapore in 2007 to work on book with Lee Kuan Yew at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies[7] based on a series of one-on-one conversations and a host of classified documents.[8] 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.

  1. ^ Sunanda Datta-Ray (4 June 1999). "Asia in a state of Confucian". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Author: Sunanda K Datta-Ray". indiaclub.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
  3. ^ Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (7 April 1992). "Meanwhile". International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 1 December 2006. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
  4. ^ "Coming up in January 2002". East West Center. 21 December 2001. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  5. ^ "Seminars and Lectures at the Centre" (PDF). Newsletter: Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. Spring 2002. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2003.
  6. ^ "Colleges, Halls, and Societies". Oxford University Gazette. 2 March 2000. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  7. ^ "Sunanda K. Datta-Ray". Opinion Asia. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
  8. ^ "ISEAS Conferences and Seminar Activities". Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2009.