Best of BS Opinion: Banking's game of pretend, Japanese biz custom & more

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

Private banks have been progressively grabbing larger shares of the banking business even as nimble-footed fintechs are posing a fresh threat to government-owned banks. But with the government tiptoeing around the problem with untenable solutions, Indian public sector banking could be headed the way of its counterparts in telecom and aviation. T N Ninan explains why here
 

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The third volume of the late Pranab Mukherjee’s memoirs is notable for his changing mood, tenor and reserve with truth-telling, writes Shekhar Gupta. Read it here
 

Two parties are growing organically without engineering splits or defections – the Shiv Sena and the All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). Aditi Phadnis traces their progress here
 

Sandeep Goyal describes the Japanese business custom of aisatsu-mawari an exquisitely polite way of honouring clients in the new year. Read it here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Ghar wapsi can take place only after law wapsi”
 

Farmer protestors to government during the eighth round of talks on farm laws