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Best of BS Opinion: Of govt responsibility and people lacking clear ideas

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Best of BS Opinion: The choice beyond RCEP, Modi's popularity, and more

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Experiment and reason

Economic and medical RCTs have the same limitations: the difficulty of true randomisation, or that variations in individual outcomes might be large even if the average effect is favourable

Your body is a wonderland

Bryson takes us on a body-part-by-body-part tour, with chapters devoted to the brain, the guts and the skin and hair

You too can play the handbag stock market

Scarcity in the bag market, as in the sneaker market, is a large component of value

Kolkata's unusually respectful and discerning attitude to art and artists

Art in Bengal is a reflection in the deepest sense of the way its people feel - about nature, political troubles or social strife

Reflections and realisations: Unexpected lessons from a surgery

An experience that left the author with new respect for the complexity, and resilience, of the human body

Best of BS Opinion: The clouds over 2020, Corporates 2.0, and more

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Best of BS Opinion: RBI's reputational crisis, India's whistleblower policy

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Best of BS Opinion: Govt must protect EPFO, savings lifeline for Indians

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Best of BS Opinion: The importance of exports, the power of youth activists

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Best of BS Opinion: A bubble building in bond mkt, RIL-Aramco deal and more

RIL AGMs have become events at which, rather like a prime minister's Independence Day speech, Chairman Mukesh Ambani is expected to make some big bang statements writes Kanika Datta

Best of BS Opinion: Staring at tax shortfall, India's options are tough

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Best of BS Opinion: Britain's Brexit blues, breaking pledged shares habit

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Why the rural barbershop gives filmmakers ample scope for mis-en-scene

Being centres of public assembly, more often in rural contexts, haircutting saloons have always featured in quintessential montages that depict the spreading of news

The marathon man

The top 10 male marathon runners in the world ever are either Kenyan or Ethiopian. Among the women the top nine are from these two nations

And the best Indian wine is...

Indian wines are getting better all the time, says the author

Cyclones from silence

Cyclones have been common in Dash's native Odisha and they frequent his book as well

Social networks are transforming the way we mourn our dead

Facebook is best suited for memorialising a deceased person's virtual personality, says the author

Best of BS Opinion: Precluding the next onion crisis, Ganguly's leadership

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