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Best of BS Opinion: Jobs to water, country's plight seeks constant reforms
From labour force to water conservation, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day
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Best of BS Opinion: Govt's mixed economic performance inspires little hope
From miffed markets to electric vehicles, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day
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Best of BS Opinion: India's governance deficit, from cities to companies
From bank nationalisation to Karnataka drama, here are the best of Business Standard Opinions for the day
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In praise of hobbies
The overscheduled child has been a cliche for some years, even decades now, the primped and pampered product of parents with two incomes but little time
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The rebus of the skies
The fascination for the skies and what lies beyond has fathered an expansive stockpile of astronomical myths and legends and in India, also an elaborate astrological system
Lost expression
Shorn of social messaging, art for the sake of aesthetic alone contributes the 'low' to what is otherwise regarded as 'high' art
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Many lives to give
Organs from one donor can save up to eight lives and tissue donation can help heal up to 50 people. But organ donation isn't usually on our personal to-do list
Best of BS Opinion: Have our institutions responded adequately to frauds?
From trade trouble to future demographic shocks, here are the best of Business Standard Opinions for the day
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Best of BS Opinion: India's moon mission, social outlook are an irony
From DHFL crisis to gender bias in India, here are the best of Business Standard Opinions for the day
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Very angry, highly sexist young man
Telugu original with its brilliant rendering of the hero by Vijay Deverakonda works better than Kabir Singh
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HAL 9000, here we come
The prediction is that once we achieve human standards, that machine will become as close to a god
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India's largest wine store
How profitable will such a venture be, and is the investment justified?
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I spy - my kid
How far can parental supervision go in the name of caring guardianship without violating a child's right to privacy?
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Kranti Saran: The shifty strategy
While you can't coerce anyone to recognise your legitimacy to speak out, nobody can deny you the self-recognition of your own legitimacy to speak
Rajesh Shukla: Children of a lesser god
Women graduates get a salary a fourth less than what men do and a third don't even get to work
Poetry in Parliament
Does political poetry have any value at all?
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The artist as a poet
Prabhakar Barwe is that rare artist whose work defies description and cannot be easily slotted under a convenient label
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Political posturing
The interesting thing is that the writer brings in the crisis of the present in several ways
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The shape of water
Water was among the prime deities in an animistic universe. Its influence permeated the world of myths and folklore and impacted the rituals that helped perpetuate a chosen way of life
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Running in the family
My fondness for certain things in life - sport, beer and writing - has been inherited from my maternal grandfather
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