Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 big picture, migrant workers, and more

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

How bad are things? The surge in the number of Covid-19 cases, the images of fleeing migrants and the hugely divergent assessments of economic growth plus the government’s own opacity make it difficult to judge. These issues remain the focus of the opinion writers this weekend, says Kanika Datta.

If the experts say that the right comparison for what we are living through is with what happened in the Great Depression, then it is time our expectations of the future got less unreal, says T N Ninan. Read it here

Narendra Modi’s fifth monologue to a locked down