Best of BS Opinion: Hindutva's damaging game, protection from DPA & more

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

The controversy about India’s gross domestic product (GDP) calculations refuses to go away. A recent presentation by former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian and the former International Monetary Fund representative in India Josh Felman has sparked a discussion, given that the two authors asserted that GDP may in fact have contracted in the pre-pandemic year of 2019-20. Not everyone agrees with this assessment. In this context, our lead editorial notes that it has now been almost a decade since the last comprehensive study of sources and methods for GDP estimation was published by the NSO, in 2012. The year 2022 should see another such publication that might lay this debate to rest. Read here

In other views:

Majoritarianism that encourages a weakening of state institutions that safeguard law and order can just as easily rebound on those who are wielding the instruments of societal coercion today, notes our second editorial. Read here 

KP Krishnan talks about the powers of the proposed Data Protection Authority. Read here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

 

“Businesses and society must adapt…preparing as best we can for new outbreaks and variants. We are seeing this now with the spread of Omicron.”

 

Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran