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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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Woman smarter?
The gender diversity exercise in the workplace is so pro forma as to make a mockery of the concept
Beyond the boundaries
Even if we were to assume that there was no other major news to cover, was media's relentless focus on scandal in BCCI really warranted?
Sweatshop nations
Since jobs are the first shaky step on the long road to poverty reduction, the sweatshop will remain a grim reality in poor countries
Protesting too much?
The more overtly virtuous the company, the greater the reason for investors to be wary of it
The ascent of man
An attractive coffee table offering commemorates 60 years of Hillary and Tenzing's feat
Tea with BS: Strobe Talbott
Engaging India, again
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Age-old problems
India's aged rulers don't seem to have cottoned on to the winds of change
Incredibly unsafe
With a growing reputation for lack of personal safety, India is losing out in ways the tourism industry may not have grasped
Banking on the 'purdah' principle
The more we segregate the genders, the worse things will get for women
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