Best of BS Opinion: Green shoots in financial sector, price hike, and more

Kanika Datta sums up the best of BS Opinion articles: from why the public should be consulted in redesigning New Delhi and why the government must not control drug prices.

There’s an unreal quality to politics these days. Discontent over the Citizenship Amendment Act is boiling over into police excesses on campuses. But in jobless, Naxal-infested Jharkhand Amit Shah talks talks to voters about building a sky-touching temple in Ayodhya. It is unclear if anyone in government has absorbed IMF economist Gita Gopinath’s urgent advice on the importance of keeping the fiscal deficit in check. Or Moody’s dismal sub-5 per cent growth projection revision for FY20. Standard & Poor’s recently threatened a downgrade. Have the ratings agencies got it wrong? T T Mohan Ram says here that