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