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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: 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?
Kanika Datta: Downers in high places
The RBI board would be meeting in 'idyllic Mussoorie' to discuss, among other things, the diminishing strength of the rupee
Lunch with BS: Dinesh Mohan
One for the road
Kanika Datta: Small change, big deal
The business community has added the spectre of retrospective tax laws to the litany of complaints against India
Kanika Datta: In the drink
Tea will be declared a National Drink on April 17, 2013.What does 'national' status imply in terms of hard benefits? Tax breaks, maybe?
Kanika Datta: Wait until dark
There is even less hope for women when leaders such as Mamata Banerjee & Sheila Dixit agree to the view that women should not work after dark
Kanika Datta: Animal instincts in branding
Indian firms resort to animal & avian kingdoms for brand names far more sparingly than their US and European counterparts
Kanika Datta: What's in a name?
Jettisoning Sir and Ma'am within the workplace is good practice because respect must be earned only by virtue of ability, not form of address