Kanika Datta

Kanika Datta

Kanika Datta is a former journalist with three decades of experience and has worked in various editorial capacities with Business Standard for most of her professional career. She is currently a consulting editor with the paper. She is an opinion writer and writes a monthly column titled Swot" that mostly focuses on the intersection of business and economic policy with society. She is a history graduate from Jadavpur University. Her other interests include keenly following sports from the armchair (especially football)

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Kanika Datta

Women remain under-represented in Indian corporate leadership and earn less than men, highlighting the gap between workplace policies and actual gender equality.

Updated On: 11 Nov 2026 | 10:03 PM IST

Fans will long squabble over whether Messi or Ronaldo is entitled to the 'greatest of all time' accolade... this is a pointless exercise

Updated On: 06 Nov 2026 | 10:19 PM IST

The choice of title is, presumably, a play on the Cambridge Apostles, the "self-consciously academic elite" society that became fertile recruiting for Soviet intelligence in the inter-war years

Updated On: 16 Oct 2026 | 10:32 PM IST

Air passengers pay for their safety in the skies one way or another - even though the real solution lies in the hands of politicians

Updated On: 07 Oct 2026 | 10:49 PM IST

Women enjoy handouts as much as the next person but their votes depend on meaningful political programmes

Updated On: 09 Sep 2026 | 10:21 PM IST

The "best tool" for this diversion from criticism comes from a globally accepted definition of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016

Updated On: 20 Aug 2026 | 10:35 PM IST

The state could be the Bharatiya Janata Party's real test case of its business-friendly policies swot 

Updated On: 13 Aug 2026 | 12:26 AM IST

Since the bombings began, the regime has made concerted attempts to rally the nation

Updated On: 15 Jul 2026 | 11:00 PM IST

Optimism implicit in the ASUSE data should not suggest a dynamic change in women's participation rate in the workforce swot

Updated On: 08 Jul 2026 | 9:50 PM IST

Let's just enjoy the rare spectacle of peaceful youthful defiance

Updated On: 10 Jun 2026 | 10:31 PM IST

Jonathan Wilson's The Power and the Glory traces how the FIFA World Cup evolved from a football tournament into a global stage for power, politics and profit

Updated On: 05 Jun 2026 | 9:45 PM IST

This absorbing and revelatory book goes beyond the expedition to trace the post-Everest trajectories of the protagonists and is an invaluable account of the realities of the pre-commercial era of Ever

Updated On: 29 May 2026 | 11:11 PM IST

Crash-landings such as the one by Kingfisher Airlines could be ascribed to ill-judged government policy

Updated On: 13 May 2026 | 10:49 PM IST

As FIFA's steep broadcasting demands threaten World Cup telecast in India, memories return of Doordarshan's role in shaping the country's football fandom

Updated On: 08 May 2026 | 10:54 PM IST

Antony Beevor's book casts a cool academic eye on this controversial faith healer, arguing that despite the mystique, Rasputin's influence on the fall of the Romanovs has been exaggerated

Updated On: 30 Apr 2026 | 10:41 PM IST

Where the Apollo missions routinely hogged the headlines, Artemis II, whose mission was consequential for science, usually made it to second lead, sometimes third

Updated On: 24 Apr 2026 | 10:47 PM IST

India must seize the current energy crisis to reorient policymaking for long-term benefits

Updated On: 09 Apr 2026 | 12:43 AM IST

Mr Hazarika notes that despite Bose's electrifying oratory, only 2,000 men of the 27,000 POWs outside the INA joined; the rest opted for the purgatory of Japanese POW camps

Updated On: 06 Apr 2026 | 9:51 PM IST

Covid-19 exodus demonstrated the cynically utilitarian treatment by local residents towards people from other Indian states who play a vital role in sustaining economies far away from their homelands

Updated On: 11 Mar 2026 | 10:51 PM IST

Creating the groundwork for shovel-ready investment would require hard work to reverse all of India's deep-seated problems

Updated On: 11 Feb 2026 | 9:59 PM IST