Best of BS Opinion: The real oximeter, why poor are leaning right & more

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

The post-pandemic world will set the stage for a return to pre-Cold War political patterns. Only the fight for a better environment will stay constant. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
 

Pranab Bardhan analyses how support for left- and right-leaning parties is changing in social composition
 

How might the lab-leak hypothesis matter? Ajay Shah says until the Chinese archives are opened up, a decisive answer may not be obtained on whether the hypothesis is true or false
 

Sunita Narain: The oxygen in the battle for a greener and more inclusive tomorrow is our common anguish — this is our fight for survival. Nothing less.
 

Till March, banks could hold on but not all of them will be in a position to stomach the impact of the second wave of the pandemic, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay
 

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What we as the G-7 need to do is demonstrate the benefits of democracy and freedom and human rights to the rest of the world

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on vaccines