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