Best of BS Opinion: India losing export opportunities, farm wastage & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Revenue sharing by the Centre with the states will stay a thorny problem. The presence of Chinese businesses in India will remain a ticklish matter. Uddalok Bhattachrya sums up

Despite getting half the Centre’s gross revenues in the first quarter of 2020-21, the states are understandably wary. A K Bhattacharya explains

The curious case of Jack Ma’s India plans despite his initial bullishness: His firm Alibaba is present in the country only as an investor rather than being a strategic player, and virtually absent from the anti-Chinese narrative. Nivedita Mookerji gives the perspective

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Don’t try to go into the battle placing the gun on (Narendra) Modi’s shoulders. If you do it, you will remain in that 1 per cent (the BJP’s vote share in the 2019 assembly election).

BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav’s warning to party colleagues in Andhra Pradesh