Best of BS Opinion: China's scientific muscle, sovereign rating risk & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic recedes, forecasters have begun lowering growth projections for the current fiscal year. The concurrent fiscal stress from lower economic growth can also put pressure on India’s sovereign rating. What would a sovereign rating downgrade mean for India? The second edit outlines the risks here
 

Other views today examine the political outlook for Narendra Modi’s, ways to pay for pandemic supplies and the implications of China’s space missions
 

The notion that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inept handling of the second wave of the pandemic marks the end of his political dominance is misplaced, Vir