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Best of BS Opinion: Helping stressed sectors and gearing up for peak Covid

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Connectivity provides a stronger foundation for exports: Hua Chunying

"I can confirm that China and India have conducted effective communication and reached agreement on properly handling the situation," she said on Ladakh standoff

Best of BS Opinion: Divided by a virus, the trouble with cities, and more

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The Black Lives Matter protests and the swift change they are triggering

Remarkably, the protests have had an impact across borders. In the United Kingdom, the statue of a slave trader was uprooted and dumped in the river

The mythology of fear

Instead of its once haloed existence as the year of lofty goals and vision statements, it is now staring at an epitaph that may well read: The year when death ran amok and the gods went missing.

Inside Dr Caligari's cabinet

Paying attention to words thoughtfully chosen for the intertitles, and observing the actors' purposefully exaggerated moods, is really a high form of meditation

No painter of pretty pictures

If Amitava's early practice was characterised by anger, he has since tempered it with wisdom, yet he remains a chronicler of social wrongs, writes Kishore Singh

Best of BS Opinion: Digital payments and the pandemic, AGR dues, and more

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As telcos begin paying AGR dues, Supreme Court adopts a softer approach

It has also possibly thus settled a larger question in India that when a government due has been upheld, the company has to ensure it must be paid by whatever means.

Best of BS Opinion: Pending agri reform, India's GDP growth, and more

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Best of BS Opinion: Clarity for FDI, rising discom debt, and more

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Best of BS Opinion: Unlocking Delhi, Covid-19 crisis, GDP growth, and more

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Best of BS Opinion: All eyes on recovery, Sino-Indian border standoff, more

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Best of BS Opinion: Govt's limited fiscal cushion, doing-business concerns

From why this year's budgeted net tax revenue for the Centre is impossible to achieve to how Indians are blase about class-driven brutality, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces

Panther poetry

The internationalist outlook of the Dalit Panthers has been described as fitting 'into the global mosaic of anger, protest, demonstrations, violence, and youthful revolutionary upsurge'

Covid's toll on women

The lockdown has seen a sharp spike in the incidence of domestic violence, and Listen to Her, a crisp, seven-minute film, shot at Das's own home, mainly draws attention to it

The migrant disaster will be a blot on the country's collective conscience

Lockdowns, which have come with daily trackers and goals of flattening curves, can be akin to ineffectual New Year resolutions

The best of Indian wines

The quality (and price) of wines made in India improves/increases each year and there's no question that our best wines are today much better than most imported wines priced at the same level.

Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 impact on jobs, preserving the IBC, and more

From what the upcoming GST Council meet should focus on to how Trump's response to the protests helped it spread beyond its borders, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

Best of BS Opinion: New normal for public transport, Unlock 1.0, and more

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