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Best of BS Opinion: The price of a life, the virus unravels, and more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday

coronavirus, covid-19, politics, lab-leak theory
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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Kanika Datta New Delhi
The hunt for the origin of coronavirus shows science, democracy and sense of inquiry can overcome politics, ideology and omerta codes, writes Shekhar Gupta, explaining the finer points of the lab-leak theory as a possible cause of this global pandemic. Read it here
 
In other views:
 
T N Ninan explains why governments should take responsibility for compensating families of Covid-19 victims, just as they have chosen to compensate those rendered jobless or plain destitute. Read it here
 
Aditi Phadnis examines the strange controversy surrounding Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and the demand for his removal. Read it here