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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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Goodbye to Pam and all that
It was a culture that was unabashedly Western, of course. But it was unique to Calcutta: slightly Flower Power in its proclivities, deliciously risque
Lunch with BS: Siddhartha Lal
'Delighted to be in India'
 "Lunch with BS: Siddhartha Lal")
Lunch with BS: Dipankar Gupta
An idea for India
 "Lunch with BS: Dipankar Gupta")
After independence
A broad-brush picture reveals some inconvenient truths that are incompatible with our collective sense of self in the world order
A Siachen conspiracy
The Indo-Pak border conflict and the Indian missile programme form the centerpiece of A X Ahmad's fast-paced debut novel
Poverty debate: Look who's talking
The curious case of the poor not finding a voice in the highly volatile poverty debate
Lunch with BS: Onno Ruhl
Banking on adventure
 "Lunch with BS: Onno Ruhl")
The intangible AirAsia effect
To truly understand the term 'low-cost airlines' in all its facets, you need to travel low-cost airlines in other geographies where things that we take for granted in India are 'extras' to be paid for
Everest's unsung hero
An absorbing biography reveals how Hillary and Tenzing's achievements would not have been possible without the technological innovations of Griffith Pugh
 "The binary world of public relations")
Woman smarter?
The gender diversity exercise in the workplace is so pro forma as to make a mockery of the concept
Beyond the boundaries
Even if we were to assume that there was no other major news to cover, was media's relentless focus on scandal in BCCI really warranted?
Sweatshop nations
Since jobs are the first shaky step on the long road to poverty reduction, the sweatshop will remain a grim reality in poor countries
Protesting too much?
The more overtly virtuous the company, the greater the reason for investors to be wary of it
The ascent of man
An attractive coffee table offering commemorates 60 years of Hillary and Tenzing's feat
Tea with BS: Strobe Talbott
Engaging India, again
 "Tea with BS: Strobe Talbott")
Age-old problems
India's aged rulers don't seem to have cottoned on to the winds of change
Incredibly unsafe
With a growing reputation for lack of personal safety, India is losing out in ways the tourism industry may not have grasped
Banking on the 'purdah' principle
The more we segregate the genders, the worse things will get for women