Best of BS Opinion: The choice beyond RCEP, Modi's popularity, and more

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

‘Bad Pakistan’ and minority browbeating is the sum and substance of the BJP’s nationalism and the Indian people were lapping it up. But if their responses to it are changing now, the form they will take can be only a variant of that. And in any case there is little to distinguish between primal nationalistic instincts and celebrations of our men and women getting the Nobel Prize. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Narendra Modi’s popularity is undiminished but people want to be optimistic about the economy. Shekhar Gupta writes.

RCEP or no RCEP, the soil for it has not been prepared. T N Ninan looks at the picture. 

A Nobel Prize acquires meaning only when a government responds in a caring manner, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. Its fruition does not lie in the raptures of the public.

Educator and publisher Geeta Dharmarajan talks of her life and work.

 

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I think it is important that we understand the real objective and conspiracy behind Bapu’s murder, at a time when the patron of his murder is being considered for Bharat Ratna

 

Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi