Best of BS Opinion: A Budget after contraction, new regulators, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Our experience shows the pandemic will not mark a complete break with the scheme of things. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
 

In the past, three Budgets were presented in the backdrop of a contraction, says A K Bhattacharya. What was common to them?
 

If one were to create a steel regulator or a cement regulator, chances are those would ape the financial sector regulatory model, says Somasekhar Sundaresan. The danger lies there
 

You consume content (TV and OTT) not just because you want to while away your time, but also because it gives you social capital. Hence appointment viewing will live on, says Ambi Parameswaran

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Insofar as the apprehension regarding MSP (minimum support price) being done away with, it is submitted across the Bar that the same may not be dismantled.

The Supreme Court Bench

The credentials of these four people (on the Supreme Court panel), I think, do not inspire confidence because of the way they have been leaning towards these laws.

Farmer leader and Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar