Kanika Datta
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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)
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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The perfect spy
Ben Macintyre recreates the story of Oleg Gordievsky's career with his customary flair
 "The perfect spy")
The telecom crisis: Noises off
'The last thing Narendra Modi needs at this time are TV images of telecom employees on dharna for losing their jobs', says the author
 "The telecom crisis: Noises off")
All our yesterdays
Fenby's history covers 13 months from June 1947 to June 1948, a period that, he says, 'really did change the world, shaping much of it in a form that gives the period a lasting relevance for our day'
 "All our yesterdays")
Marketing a political leader
A cursory reading of the four Kotlerian criteria reveals not just the weakness of the marketing guru's arguments but the hazards of linking corporate standards of judgement to politics and politicians
 "Marketing a political leader")
Ideal worship
In India, leveraging the machinery of state to settle disturbances arising from matters of faith is not unheard of
 "Ideal worship")
Quotas on the learning curve
Whatever the provenance of the recipient of affirmative action - whether caste, tribe, or, the latest innovation, economic situation - neither tool is truly empowering or socially transformative
 "Quotas on the learning curve")
Globalisation on the playing fields
Some six teams in Ligue 1, France's top-tier club tournament, are foreign-owned - by Spanish, American, Russian, Polish and Chinese investors in addition to the Qataris
Don't want more teams in FIFA World Cup? Actually, it's great for fans
Football fans would never have gotten to see a sublime array of talent if FIFA hadn't expanded the number of qualifying slots for the Asian and African regions
 "Don't want more teams in FIFA World Cup? Actually, it's great for fans")
The intolerance of the liberal is no better than that of the Hindutvawadis
By behaving like their opponents, liberals are damaging their credibility in lasting ways
Mind the gap between superior lifestyle & public service in Indian politics
The profession of politics in India is regarded as a means to accessing a superior lifestyle rather than a mode of public service
The treadmill of business frauds: From 1957 LIC scandal to PNB scam
Satyam offered the first inkling of the chronic governance problems in Indian companies, when a board stuffed with signature international personality patently failed to do its due diligence
Are we creeping back to controls on corporate decision making?
The I-T department's reasoning for this extraordinary ruling: That discounts are being used to create huge intangible assets for the company and therefore constitute capital expenditure
Interlude in Davos
Public memory is short, but Mr Modi's early days as prime minister stood out for the frequency of his foreign travels
Spectre of the deep state
Book review of 'The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton'
War of words over 'Pocahontas'
Pocahontas is a racial slur on several levels
Lunch with BS: Donald Davis, the dharma of ideology
A leading expert on the Dharmashastras explains why he thinks Sanskrit scholarship has waned in Indi
 "Lunch with BS: Donald Davis, the dharma of ideology")
The real secret about Indian start-ups
US start-ups crash and burn so frequently that no one blinks an eyelid
First Daughters Inc
For all the controversy, the concept of prominent First Children is not novel in Western democracies
A tale of two blasphemies
If we exclude Ireland, blasphemy laws have fallen into disuse in most developed countries
House-husbandry isn't considered a guy thing
The single dad is a sex symbol; the single mother is, well, just a struggling, unfortunate woman