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Can economics be of the people, for the people and by the people?

Sound theories are essential as they provide stable base for policymaking, but the process is too long-drawn and takes away objectivity

Best of BS Opinion: Read slowdown signals, don't fix onion prices

A government cannot make markets, and when it tries to control how they move, it almost always makes things worse

Best of BS Opinion: Perils of loan waivers, crucial SC judgments, and more

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

Best of BS Opinion: Nobel Prize for economics, rural unemployment, and more

This year's Nobel holds out hope for evidence-based policy making.

Best of BS Opinion: Gap between policy making and targets needs to reduce

Times are changing and so should our educational imperatives

Modernist outpost

Cholamandal is today part of the tourist circuit but few visitors realise the role it has played as the last pillar of modernism in the country.

Cutting the branch we sit on

In India, almost every tree has a story running through it. The banyan, the fig tree, the eucalyptus - all trees are sacred because of their association with a divinity.

The cult of children

At the UN Climate Action Summit, Greta Thunberg admonished the world's leaders for playing fast and loose with the futures of the young

Best of BS Opinion: Corporate tax cuts, pollution challenge, and more

Other views consider Adani's airport plans, the intrusion of investigative agencies in lawyer-client relationships, renewable energy and the role of state pollution boards. Kanika Datta sums them up

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's economic policymaking, labour market, and more

Labour reform, audit regulations and the quality of economic policy-making are the other views on the opinion pages today. Kanika Datta sums them up

Best of BS Opinion: Corporation tax cut, financial sector stress, and more

Will the corporate tax cut do the trick? Is the fiscal deficit target too stiff? Kanika Datta sums up the views

Best of BS Opinion: PMC Bank crisis, stressed financial firms, and more

The lead edit explains why the 25 basis point cut in the policy rate is an appropriate call

Can we emote in English?

Our national conversation, meaning that which relates to the economy, security, constitutionalism and the law and so on, has been appropriated by English

Wines and myths

SDU Reserva Syrah 2015, adjudged the Best Indian Red at the 2017 India Wine Challenge, is aromatic and full-bodied with soft tannins and a good finish

New homes, new poems

The poet embraces his nomadic self in other poems

When bags have wings

There should be a name for this - the fear of losing one's bags on a flight

Best of BS Opinion: An unusual monsoon, electric car revolution, and more

How must the government approach the issue of water conflicts that are becoming more widespread and intense by the day? Alokananda Chakraborty sums up the views

Best of BS Opinion: Evaluation of Swachh Bharat, corporation tax-cut & more

Why are experts divided in their opinion about the corporate tax cuts? This and much more, Alokananda Chakraborty sums up the views of Business Standard opinion pieces

Best of BS Opinion: The antibiotics challenge, warship woes, and more

Is size an advantage for pursuing the objectives of public sector banking? What is the role of India's financial sector in achieving the $5-trillion economy target? Alokananda Chakraborty sums up.

Best of BS Opinion: India-US trade issues, RBI monetary policy, and more

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