Best of BS Opinion: Flashpoint Afghanistan, the tech landscape is changing

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At 20.1 per cent, GDP growth for the first quarter of FY22 was largely in line with expectations, given the low base of the corresponding period last year when India locked down owing to the pandemic. If India endures another wave of Covid-19 in the coming months, hopes for a V-shaped recovery may need to be revisited. "A realistic expectation is that the pandemic and consequent policy measures will have cost India two full years of growth," says the top edit here.

In other views today

Contrary to conventional wisdom, R Jagannathan argues here, the case for a young and fast-growing population is growing weaker in the age of technology-driven growth and climate change. Read it here...

Prosenjit Datta discusses the long-term implications of the action against Big Tech in the US and China. Read it here...

The second edit says all scenarios in a post-US Afghanistan point to further turbulence. Read it here...

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The world should have learned its lesson, and this is the enjoyable moment of victory”

 

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid