Best of BS Opinion: Adapting to a warming world, India's recovery & more

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

It’s now been a year since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, and yet there is no respite. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
 

Nitin Desai writes: Disasters such as the one in Uttarakhand are going to get worse as the average global temperature goes up by much more than what we have experienced so far
 

Air travel is limping back to normal, but airlines are far from a take-off, says Anjuli Bhargava
 

An interesting feature of Indian households is that independent of their current economic conditions, they are systematically optimistic of their future. Mahesh Vyas explains how

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Whenever roads will be blocked, and people would be prevented from going to work, or children to school, there will always be a Kapil Mishra to stop that … I will do what I did again. I don't have any regrets

BJP functionary (earlier of the Aam Aadmi Party) Kapil Mishra, who threatened the Delhi Police during the city’s riots in 2020