Best of BS Opinion: Why India cannot be compared with East Asia, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

From India’s manufacturing to harms of censorship to nomadic knowledge systems to British monarchy --- these are what we have today.

This week T N Ninan writes: Little is lost if the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme fails. But if an affordable financial incentive is achieved from its success, more power to PLI! For it becomes: Heads you win, tails you lose little. Read here

Devangshu Datta tells you why the erstwhile USSR stayed decades behind the West in biosciences and why it suffered famines and food shortages. Read here

Arundhuti Dasgupta looks at the supposed backwardness and says authorities should tap into their knowledge. Read here

 

Mihir S Sharma talks of the timeworn institution, which is the coronation of the king of the UK. Read here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

 

Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency

 

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