Best of BS Opinion: Reemergence of Covid, India's external shocks and more

Here are the best of BS Opinion pieces of the day

It’s been two years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on national television to declare that India would go into complete lockdown, reflecting the then optimistic notion that such isolation would break the chain of infection. Both the lockdown and the second wave traumatised Indians. Despite the relative mildness of the third wave, India should not repeat the mistake of complacency. Indeed, until the entire population is inoculated and boosted with an appropriate and effective vaccine, the re-emergence of deaths and hospitalisations must always be a worry, the top edit cautions. Read it here

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The second edit examines the merits and pitfalls of the Common University Entrance Test. Read it here 

Sonal Varma outlines ways that India could navigate its way out of the three external shocks that confront it: the Russia-Ukraine war, a hawkish Federal Reserve and sluggish growth in China. Read it here 

Somit Dasgupta explains the complex issue of phasing out coal plants to reach our renewable energy targets. Read it here

QUOTE OF THE DAY 

“Putin’s performance in Ukraine is a walking, talking, barking advertisement for the perils of having a president for life”

Thomas Friedman in the New York Times