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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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Making CSR work
Corporate philanthropy is gaining traction in India, especially after recent amendments to the Companies Act. But what are the challenges involved in making CSR investments genuinely impactful? A prac
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Lunch with BS: Dean Spears
The executive director of Research Institute for Compassionate Economics, says rural India is a dismal outlier when it comes to open defecation and that's a major reason for its stunted, unhealthy chi
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Lunch with BS: Shital Kakkar Mehra
Soft Skills International head says the demand for soft skills training for executives took off in India when the multinational presence expanded and the corporate world stopped being an old boys' clu
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Navin Kumar: GST's professional 'amateur'
His interest didn't ride on India's nineties' IT boom but developed in the late eighties, in the ministry of water resources and later in Sierra Leone, where he took a three-year posting as Chief Tech
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Walking the multicultural talk
Confluence of Cultures, a walk through the "grey town" area of Kolkata, takes in a unique microcosm of religious co-existence
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Kanika Datta: The rural beti as businesswoman
Indian women can only progress as far as the social system permits them and plugging into global supply chains is a good way to start, as we saw with the ITeS boom
India's Republic Day tamasha awaits Obama
India's Republic Day pageantry will be in sharp contrast with Obama's 2009 swearing-in
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Post-GST enforcement, dealers to pay user charge when filing I-T returns
The central and state governments are yet to take a call on the issue or on whether the states will subsidise the cost
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For Bahl, it's 18 all over again
Since his exit from the broadcasting empire he founded, Raghav Bahl has been moving swiftly to prepare for the launch of his mobile news service
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Small steps for government, giant leaps for trade
What does the Trade Facilitation Agreement really mean for India?
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Why Obama has stoked India's Brain Drain
Reasons why Obama's impending relaxations in US immigration policies should be a cause for worry for Modi
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