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Kanika Datta

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When A 60 Year Old Wins Beauty Contest...
Rediff.com16 May 2024

You can sense the beauty business licking its lips. In rapidly ageing affluent...

Should Dhoni Have Done This Ad?
Rediff.com12 Dec 2023

It is a pity that he does not take his youth influencer role more seriously and align...

How Women's participation in startup has increased
Rediff.com7 Nov 2023

Women account for 35 per cent of the 860,000 people employed in startups in 2022,...

Brain Drain 2.0 Is Taking Place In India
Rediff.com28 Sep 2023

The migration of domestically developed intellectual property to foreign corporations...

How UK became Global Money Laundromat
Rediff.com12 Sep 2023

A whirlwind trip of the dark underbelly of global finance, covering everything from tax...

Why No One Will Speak For The Wrestlers
Rediff.com15 Jun 2023

All these male politicians are unlikely to risk their sinecures to speak up in support...

Job Quotas In Private Sector?
Rediff.com2 May 2023

Rather than a blind reproduction of the government template, a more productive way of...

Why Women Deserve Period Leave
Rediff.com23 Mar 2023

On the whole, the case for Period Leave is compelling. It may well bring more women...

Will L'affaire Adani Affect Modi's Image?
Rediff.com21 Feb 2023

Gautam Adani's alleged proximity to Narendra Modi may dent the latter's self-styled...

Can P T Usha Fix The IOA?
Rediff.com28 Dec 2022

Ms Usha may soon discover that winning four gold medals at the Asian Games and...

Own Goal! Europe's Protests Over Qatar's Human Rights
Rediff.com26 Oct 2022

The rumblings of discontent from Righteous Europe over Qatar's admittedly appalling...

India Inc's missing whistle-blowers
Rediff.com21 Jul 2022

The latest whistle-blower revelations of multiple shenanigans at global ride-hailing...

Make English Compulsory, Mandarin Second Language
Rediff.com29 Apr 2022

Anybody who's plugged in to the modern, globalised world will understand why, says...

What Indian Music Should Airlines Play?
Rediff.com15 Jan 2022

So should airlines play the keening, trance-like Siddi folk music from the Kutch...

Women In The Post-Pandemic Workplace
Rediff.com23 Dec 2021

It was women who unambiguously bore the brunt of the lockdown joblessness, says Kanika...

Is Gurugram going the Kolkata way?
Rediff.com21 Nov 2021

Militant labour policies compounded a poor security environment for capital in West...

Ministers Still CONTROL Business!
Rediff.com28 Aug 2021

Indian businesses' weak ability to compete overseas says much about the infirmities...

10 years later, Mamata discovers different Nandigram
Rediff.com2 May 2021

She faced off against former disciple-turned-defector Suvendu Adhikari in a very...

Time to say cheers for the millennials
Rediff.com13 Jan 2021

'With more and more young people relocating outside their home states for work, an...

Modi's big opportunity in Bihar
Rediff.com21 Nov 2020

Over the next five years, it will be Narendra not Nitish who will be under pressure to...