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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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Virtual Coffee with BS: Rana Mitter
Another China syndrome
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The Allies' forgotten ally
Historian Rana Mitter makes a credible case to show that China and Chiang Kai-shek played a decisive role in the World War II
Kanika Datta: Out of tune
The audience at Srinagar's Shalimar Bagh clearly did not know that clapping in between movements of a piece of music seriously disrupts musicians' concentration
Kanika Datta: Women's rights? Who cares!
No political party explicitly makes women's issues, especially more stringent anti-rape laws, part of its governance agenda
Betrayal on the menu
A debut novel on espionage and intrigue in the sunset of Empire authentically captures the foibles of army life
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Veiled implications
In a progressive, secular country women should be free to choose to wear whatever they feel most comfortable in wherever they are, just as men do
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'
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Lunch with BS: Dipankar Gupta
An idea for India
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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
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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
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