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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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Dinner with BS: Zareer Masani, author
Macaulay's biographer rues the decline of English teaching in India
No easy days
This carefully backgrounded account of the mission to take down Osama bin Laden squarely credits Barack Obama but leaves some tantalising questions unanswered
PPP, Guggenheim style
A unique initiative in urban sustainability is designed to draw citizens from all walks of life in Mumbai to explore public spaces in their city
Kanika Datta: CSR, unmade in India
CSR may deflect attention from the potentially harmful natures of the businesses
Lunch with BS: IT's marathon man Ajit Balakrishnan
India's earliest internet entrepreneur doesn't see value in selling out
Kanika Datta: Jefferson's Children?
By switching to American English India may send out a subliminal message to world
Kanika Datta: An explosion of goodies
Every Diwali is a reminder of how far India's consumer culture has developed from the bad old days of the licence raj
Kanika Datta: NCR CVs & all that jazz
Culture vulturing is quite a harmless pastime. In the National Capital Region, though, this species (the NCR CV) is something to seriously dread
Kanika Datta: The soft power we ignore
The spin-offs from providing some sort of formal training for the hospitality business are huge
Kanika Datta: The perils of packaging
In westernising ourselves, we have chosen to embrace many of their worst practices and the trend towards over-packaging is one of them
Kanika Datta: May a million entrepreneurs bloom
In the same way that shanty car repair shops are thriving despite the onslaught of organised car servicing networks, there is no reason small shop-owners can't do likewise
Lunch with BS: Christopher Bayly
Empire lines
Kanika Datta: Double trouble in single windows
The single window is a poor substitute for sustained systemic efficiency
Kanika Datta: Our lives and their lives on TV serials
Popular TV serials do tend to reflect society in an unconsciously accurate way, and even though India's image in western shows highlights its colourful multi-dimensional character, the depiction is not always comfortable
Kanika Datta: Foreign hands across the waters
The big message emerging from current Taj-Orient Express drama is that globalisation may have many discontents as contents
Kanika Datta: Gurgaon, the Potemkin village
A makeover is underway in Gurgaon as the city will host a major conference, but in six months, Gurgaon will return to its customary state
Kanika Datta: Firing on six cylinders
The annual LPG quota won't really impact heavy users or encourage them to use less cooking gas, and nor does it reward the frugal user of resources. If anything, the annual quota could encourage malfeasance