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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 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
Kanika Datta: Business by any other game
Champion sportsmen make for easy inspirational material
Leaders in their wonder years
The author's discoveries about leadership cannot be called revelatory
Kanika Datta: Trump, Modi and the jobs conundrum
Both have made factory jobs the centre of their economic agendas
Israel's Egyptian 'saviour'
Marwan's story is a reminder of the Cold War era in West Asian politics
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
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
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
Kanika Datta: Fashion statements
The incoming First Lady is a former model who has retained all the glamour of the ramp
Kanika Datta: Gender politics is not a vote winner
Notions of women's rights among women alone have many differentiators across income and education levels
Kanika Datta: Melania's moment
Donald Trump's presidency is replete with unknown unknowns