Kanika Datta

As AI reshapes work, journalism relives its own arc of automation story

What has materially impacted the journalist profession is Google and the rise of online media

Waste Wars: How rich nations legally dump toxic waste on poor countries

How the rich world exploits loopholes to legally dump toxic waste on poor nations in Asia, Africa and South America

Swadeshi is passe - Indian businesses must learn to compete or fail

When new-age businesses such as mobile telephony opened up, no consumer stopped to ask about Indian mobile phones or Indian service providers

Life beyond chai: Climate change may push India to Sri Lankan, Nepali tea

The failure to develop a powerful Indian tea brand in global markets reflects a generic weakness of Indian industry in general

Valmik Thapar's final book distils half a century of tiger conservation

Valmik Thapar's final book celebrates India's tiger legacy, blending conservation insights, Ranthambore tales, and lyrical portraits of the majestic Royal Bengal Tiger

CSR spends climb, yet corporate reputations show little improvement

The government's optimistic special economic zone (SEZ) policy of 2005 provoked a rash of indiscriminate land acquisition that often defrauded farmers and land losers of rightful compensation

The CIA Book Club reveals how the West won minds behind the Iron Curtain

How the CIA, instead of pursuing scandalous swashbuckling interventions, smuggled books to weaken the Iron Curtain and offer Eastern Europe a glimpse of an alternative future

SC's 'advice' reveals deep fault lines over the issue of stray dogs

Loving or hating dogs is beside the point. For the good of both people and animals, the Indy population needs to be controlled

Free power, subsidised rail transport fail to benefit the poor meaningfully

But the problems remain at the distribution end, where state-owned distribution companies or discoms dominate

Phil Craig tracks Allied powers' duplicitous endgame in Asian colonies

Operation Semut typified the Allied betrayal of Atlantic Charter ideals. It's a pity Mr Craig overlooks similar betrayals of the Nagas and others who served the British in the India-Burma theatre

Multi-partisanship for reforms can help India unlock stalled growth

Unravelling the Gordian knots in the ease of doing business demands wisdom from across the political aisle

The Great Epinal Escape: Bowman's book is a long-overdue tale worth telling

With its rare photographs, The Great Epinal Escape is an important record of the lives of the Indian Army in combat and captivity in major theatres of war in the west

Business on the borderline: Can India stay an investor magnet now?

This latest escalation, though unavoidable in political terms, is unlikely to mark the end of cross-border terrorism

Anirudh Kanisetti's 'Lords of Earth and Sea' explores legacy of the Cholas

Beyond the lively empire-building narrative, Kanisetti offers a sobering portrait of medieval society built on slaves, the exploitation of women

Trump's tariffs bring cheer to Maga base, but hurt US jobs and industry

The tariff wars that Trump has unleashed overlook his country's biggest competitive advantage - and may even irreparably harm it in the future

Parenting in the time of social media: Lessons from 'Adolescence'

The series Adolescence should make middle-class parents reflect on gendered attitudes, especially those relying on digital shortcuts over real parenting

The end of opus DEI: US corporations adapt to new political climate

The US template for affirmative action, from primary education upwards, offered an inspiring and workable model for countries such as India

Chasing Salah: Simon Hughes' valiant attempt to decode the enigma

Chasing Salah is Hughes' valiant attempt to offer a fuller portrait of the man. He is hamstrung by the fact that Salah almost never gives interviews, this book included

Blaming welfare schemes for labour woes ignores real economic shifts

For India Inc, like big business everywhere, the standard response is to view welfarism as an impediment to business plans

India & US: A study in sartorial contrasts reflecting cultural identities

The US is now one of the world's most multi-ethnic societies. Yet when it comes to sartorial choices, everybody hews to type