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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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Self-help for procrastinators
A professor of philosophy at Stanford explains his Ig Nobel-winning theory
Kanika Datta: Media's Big Day
More than two decades after economic liberalisation, the government continues to play such a massive role in the economy and industry that the Budget has become a big-bang revenue-earning exercise for
Kanika Datta: Betting on a great divide
The huge wage differentials and the lavish lifestyles of top footballers explain why hundreds of players and club officials down the league tables connive to do a bit of 'spot fixing' on the side
Kanika Datta: Just do it
Implementing pretty much anything is such a challenge that efficiency, instead of being an automatic expectation, has become an achievement in itself
Lunch with BS: Timothy Garton Ash
Peaceful revolutions have become the 'default model', says this popular commentator on contemporary Europe
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
Kanika Datta: A little restraint
It is hard not to wince when some of India's most prominent businessmen bend over backwards to highlight Mr Modi's virtues
Kanika Datta: CSR, unmade in India
CSR may deflect attention from the potentially harmful natures of the businesses
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
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: The soft power we ignore
The spin-offs from providing some sort of formal training for the hospitality business are huge
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 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: Foreign hands across the waters
The big message emerging from current Taj-Orient Express drama is that globalisation may have many discontents as contents