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Best of BS Opinion: Finance Commission report, farm spending, and more

Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about the Budget, Finance Commission and other policy issues

Best of BS Opinion: Accessing foreign funds, E-commerce in India, and more

Here's a collection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

Best of BS Opinion: Defence Budget, employment spending, and more

Why stock markets fell on the Budget and is there reason in reducing spending on creating jobs, explain our Opinion pieces today.

Best of BS Opinion: Fiscal deficit target, RBI policy stance, and more

Business Standard brings to you best of BS Opinion for the day

Best of BS Opinion: Was Sitharaman's second Budget a missed opportunity?

Business Standard brings to you best of BS Opinion for the day

A Centre for Contemporary Art opens with two shows at Bikaner House, Delhi

The Centre for Contemporary Art is a maze of rooms, each big enough to accommodate artworks of scale

Wine and food pairings

Apart from its characteristic ripe guava aroma, it is vibrant, with intense lemongrass and fresh ginger notes that highlight the core of citrus and pear flavours

Harmonies of Basant

Sadly, there is no messiah of tolerance today who speaks the language of universal love

Best of BS opinion: PSB reforms, India's energy policy, and more

When India loses respect in the comity of nations, it is because of a transient loss of the liberal spirit, Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Best of BS Opinion: Budget India needs, taxman's power under GST, and more

From why the Budget should be judged on delivering things like realism, fiscal prudence, fewer schemes and more governance to how the taxman has too much power under GST.

Best of BS Opinion: Air India privatisation, identity politics, and more

Identity politics dressing up as state policy can be a thorn in the flesh. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Best of BS Opinion: Climate change, structural reforms in tax rate, more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Senegal at sea

Over the years, one has learnt to expect very little from the Academy Awards but Atlantics was robbed of a place in the nominations this year

Delhi's art musings

Quite different from Reddy's sexually intimidating sculptures is Sudipta Das's migratory juggernaut

Dire straits

Richard Davies's book is divided into three parts - survival, failure, future - each of which subdivides into three case studies about specific places

Gaultier's great goodbye

After 50 years, the designer held his last show, and it was a doozy

Best of BS Opinion: Budget in the season of protests, new axis of infra

From Andhra Pradesh government's decision to build three capitals to how the government missed the chance to defuse the anger over CAA and focus on the economy, here's a selection of Business Standard

What's in a number?

Among his many names, Sachin Tendulkar became known as the 'God of Cricket'

Best of BS Opinion: Simplifying tax on capital, Trump economy, and more

From why life expectancy in the US has been declining to how an undefined constitutional clause has grown too big for the times, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Best of BS Opinion: Climate-related financial risks, Budget 2020, and more

From how Budget 2020 could be the litmus test for the government's reform credentials to the reasons why natural farming could be an alternative to high input cost agriculture