Best of BS Opinion: The inequality debate, China's Taiwan tangle, and more

In other views, writers tackle another element of the inequality debate, an income tax immunity scheme and the implications of Taiwan's recent elections. Kanika Datta sums up the views

It is a sign of the times when the day’s headlines talk about mass sackings (Walmart India), a Competition Commission probe (against Amazon, Flipkart and other online retailers), and an Enforcement Directorate probe against a realtor (Amrapalli). Investments? New projects? Expansions? All that’s thin on the ground. As Shreekant Sambrani points out in his critique of the first six months of Narendra Modi’s second term,  “The sounds of economic thunder may have appeared distant when first heard a year or so ago, but now they are within the audible range of even those wearing ideological ear buds.” Mr Modi will