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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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Virtual Coffee with BS: Rana Mitter
Another China syndrome
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Kanika Datta: Paternalism in women's rights
The degree to which the anti-rape and workplace laws will improve the unenviable lot of most Indian women depends on how far society in general and men in particular are prepared to embrace the change
Lunch with BS: Gajendra Haldea
Inconvenient truth-teller
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Kanika Datta: Brand India's permanent Potential
Unlike, say, China (authoritarian efficiency) or Japan (ultra-high-tech professionalism) or the US (superpower), there hasn't ever been a single, coherent label to apply to India in the post-1991 worl
Kanika Datta: The ascent of luxury
The real talent for purveyors of luxury goods and services will lie in training Indians to serve them
Weimar's forgotten legacies
The Weimar Republic, Germany's first experiment with democracy, was far more vibrant and influential than conventional history suggests
The Allies' forgotten ally
Historian Rana Mitter makes a credible case to show that China and Chiang Kai-shek played a decisive role in the World War II
Kanika Datta: Out of tune
The audience at Srinagar's Shalimar Bagh clearly did not know that clapping in between movements of a piece of music seriously disrupts musicians' concentration
Kanika Datta: Women's rights? Who cares!
No political party explicitly makes women's issues, especially more stringent anti-rape laws, part of its governance agenda
Betrayal on the menu
A debut novel on espionage and intrigue in the sunset of Empire authentically captures the foibles of army life
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Veiled implications
In a progressive, secular country women should be free to choose to wear whatever they feel most comfortable in wherever they are, just as men do