Best of BS Opinion: The coming storm, reopening risks, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

The first edit says the government must be prepared to deal with the sort of headwinds that last hit India in the 2012-13 period. The second edit says another Covid wave is not outside the realm of possibility

Neelkanth Mishra: If energy prices remain this high for a year, they could shave 3 per cent off India’s GDP, and weaken the currency

Gurbachan Singh: The government needs to have an appropriate long-term policy framework that can enable and incentivise the participation of big private real estate companies in making the mission of 100 new cities real.

Mahesh Vyas: The change for the better in the perception of households regarding their current and prospective income is expected to play a significant role in the revival of the Indian economy.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

When I think of Shane Warne, I think of the words of American naturalist, poet and writer Henry David Thoreau: ‘It's not what you look at, it is what you see.’ Shane Warne was an illusionist first and a great leg-spin bowler second

 

Former cricketer Ian Chappell