Kanika Datta
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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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Making CSR work
Corporate philanthropy is gaining traction in India, especially after recent amendments to the Companies Act. But what are the challenges involved in making CSR investments genuinely impactful? A prac
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Lunch with BS: Vir Sanghvi
Vir Sanghvi talks about his career as an 'accidental journalist, life after the Radia tapes and other controversies, and why he's moving away from conventional journalism
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Lunch with BS: Dean Spears
The executive director of Research Institute for Compassionate Economics, says rural India is a dismal outlier when it comes to open defecation and that's a major reason for its stunted, unhealthy chi
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Lunch with BS: Shital Kakkar Mehra
Soft Skills International head says the demand for soft skills training for executives took off in India when the multinational presence expanded and the corporate world stopped being an old boys' clu
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Cost cutting in action
Everybody is doing it but what works on the ground and what doesn't? Lessons from leaders and managers
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Politicians, land mafia will benefit from LARR Bill, farmers will lose: N C Saxena
Interview with former member, Planning Commission and National Advisory Council
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Maternal nutrition much worse than what NFHS data show, says study
According to the study, 42.2% of Indian women are underweight when they begin pregnancy, nearly seven percentage points higher than the figure of 35.5% cited in the National Family Health Survey-3
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Barkha 2.0
One of Indian TV's most famous faces tells author why and how she hopes to reinvent herself in the uncharted territories of multimedia and think tanks
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Freeing up fertiliser creates a policy conundrum
The fertiliser industry is hoping NDA will bite the bullet and announce price decontrol in the Budget. But experts reckon the move is at least three years away. Here's why
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Navin Kumar: GST's professional 'amateur'
His interest didn't ride on India's nineties' IT boom but developed in the late eighties, in the ministry of water resources and later in Sierra Leone, where he took a three-year posting as Chief Tech
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C P Kuruvilla: The spirit of journalism past
(Dec 3, 1940-Feb 14, 2015)
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Walking the multicultural talk
Confluence of Cultures, a walk through the "grey town" area of Kolkata, takes in a unique microcosm of religious co-existence
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Kanika Datta: The rural beti as businesswoman
Indian women can only progress as far as the social system permits them and plugging into global supply chains is a good way to start, as we saw with the ITeS boom
India's Republic Day tamasha awaits Obama
India's Republic Day pageantry will be in sharp contrast with Obama's 2009 swearing-in
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