Best of BS Opinion: India's puzzling Covid curve, the trade push, and more

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

Corporate governance and pandemic management have an interesting correspondence. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Aakar Patel writes: Up, up and Up: India’s puzzling Covid curve. The interesting thing about this virus is that its damage to society, public health and the economy will be recorded not by historians but by journalists and in real time  Read here

Regulators and shareholders in India cannot expect high levels of candour and outspokenness from directors merely by framing new laws, says R Gopalakrishnan. It is futile to ignore the distance that power creates between directors and a family-business entrepreneur  Read here

OUR EDIT SAYS:

India should focus on exports for growth  Read here

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I have resigned from the Union Cabinet in protest against anti-farmer ordinances and legislation. Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter and sister

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal