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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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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: 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
Kanika Datta: Same difference
India has changed radically since 1994. But scanning current controversies in economy/policy space, it is also disheartening to see how little has changed too
Kanika Datta: Yesterday, today and tomorrow
If we exclude IT, Indian firms appear to have dominated in areas in which foreign collaboration was necessary or where foreign entry was restricted
Kanika Datta: The jobs paradox
Between 1983 & 1994, annual organised sector employment expanded 1.2%. Of this, public sector grew 1.53% & private sector 0.44%
Cause & effect
Antony Beevor attempts to demonstrate how the Second World War was an ¿amalgamation of conflicts¿
Kanika Datta: The CSR 'mandate'
Corporate social responsibility is not charity, it is much bigger than that. It is about doing business in a socially responsible way
Dinner with BS: V Sumantran
Professional passions
Kanika Datta: Perks of social change
Two decades ago, few corporations extended employee benefits such as paternity leave, or maternity leave for female employees who adopted children
Kanika Datta: Toeing the party line
An employee told me that non-attendance attracted public rebuke and certainly impacted year-end ratings
Lunch with BS: Roberto Zagha
A banker plans 'sanyaas'
Kanika Datta: An own goal for brand equity
Everybody knows that owning sports clubs is the ultimate rich man's folly
Lunch with BS: Ruchir Sharma
Uncertainly principles
Kanika Datta: Standing instructions
In the workplace, is one a woman first and a professional second or vice versa?