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Kanika Datta

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)

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 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

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Updated On : 28 Apr 2018 | 8:09 AM IST

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

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Updated On : 22 Mar 2018 | 5:57 AM IST

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

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Updated On : 08 Mar 2018 | 6:04 AM IST

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

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Updated On : 22 Feb 2018 | 5:59 AM IST

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

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Updated On : 11 Jan 2018 | 3:18 PM IST

Spectre of the deep state

Book review of 'The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton'

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Updated On : 14 Dec 2017 | 11:05 PM IST

War of words over 'Pocahontas'

Pocahontas is a racial slur on several levels

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Updated On : 02 Dec 2017 | 3:38 AM IST

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
Updated On : 12 Aug 2017 | 5:08 AM IST

The real secret about Indian start-ups

US start-ups crash and burn so frequently that no one blinks an eyelid

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Updated On : 28 Jun 2017 | 10:42 PM IST

First Daughters Inc

For all the controversy, the concept of prominent First Children is not novel in Western democracies

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Updated On : 26 May 2017 | 10:59 PM IST

A tale of two blasphemies

If we exclude Ireland, blasphemy laws have fallen into disuse in most developed countries

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Updated On : 12 May 2017 | 10:49 PM IST

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

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Updated On : 14 Apr 2017 | 10:11 PM IST

Kanika Datta: Business by any other game

Champion sportsmen make for easy inspirational material

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Updated On : 08 Feb 2017 | 10:41 PM IST

Leaders in their wonder years

The author's discoveries about leadership cannot be called revelatory

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Updated On : 18 Jan 2017 | 10:48 PM IST

Kanika Datta: Trump, Modi and the jobs conundrum

Both have made factory jobs the centre of their economic agendas

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Updated On : 28 Dec 2016 | 10:42 PM IST

Israel's Egyptian 'saviour'

Marwan's story is a reminder of the Cold War era in West Asian politics

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Updated On : 22 Dec 2016 | 11:34 PM IST

Kanika Datta: The hard-working Indian

Work-life balance - or the lack thereof - is the Next Big Thing in corporate culture, right up there with gender equality

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Updated On : 14 Dec 2016 | 10:42 PM IST

Kanika Datta: Lines of control

The culture of subornment and corruption the licence raj bequeathed lives on in the visceral Indian art of queue-jumping

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Updated On : 10 Dec 2016 | 4:02 AM IST

Kanika Datta: Amazing grace and Amazon's message

It is hard to understand, though, why Indian corporate leaders should choose to prostrate themselves to political leaderships either

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Updated On : 30 Nov 2016 | 11:01 PM IST

Kanika Datta: Fashion statements

The incoming First Lady is a former model who has retained all the glamour of the ramp

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Updated On : 25 Nov 2016 | 10:58 PM IST