Best of BS Opinion: Third world country, CM Thackeray in trouble, and more

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

Accepting aid for the first time in 16 years, is India back to being a Third World country rather than the emerging superpower of patriotic ambitions? As the second Covid-19 wave overwhelms the country, T N Ninan assesses the question here. And as Shekhar Gupta points out, when both Imran Khan and Xi Jinping rise generously to offer assistance you know you are in a bind. “If you read between their lines, one is telling us we aren’t such a big power compared to it that we pretended to be. The other, patronisingly, is showing us our place in the region,” he writes.