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A true picture of the post-pandemic future

There are very few issues that the report has failed to mention or explore in depth

Building buffers and using them

Letting the rupee weaken may be the least bad option; raising interest rates to slow imports is too blunt an instrument

Inefficiency, out of court

Poor governance is adding to judiciary's woes

Consumer sentiments rise slowly

Wounds of pandemic-induced lockdowns on households are healing

Global disruptions and non-cooperation

The first problem has been the very premise of the globalisation project

Traversing across the hope and fear

Each Indian firm has to reconcile internal strength with three external threats

Macro challenges of micro lenders

The freedom to fix interest rates has encouraged a few MFIs to jack up rates on Day One. It will take a while for borrowers to get the benefit as products, processes and digitisation evolve

Mutually assured detention

Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. Fightback has become an established pattern and will get more intense

A legacy and a burden

Pratibha Singh will inherit her husband's legacy, though its negative aspects might be a little bit moderate

An uncertainty tolerance test for brands?

Many brands today are still guessing if the worst is behind us

Wimbledon's double fault

In football, FIFA and UEFA have banned the Russian national football team and those from the Russian Premier League

Internet will never be the same again

Under the DSA, users will have to be informed if their content is taken down, along with a statement of reasons

The march of folly

India should work for an alliance of like-minded neutral states to restrain the adversaries in the new Cold War

7.5% growth not enough

The divergence in real GDP growth and employment growth may continue into 2022-23, although it could be much smaller

Colo fraud: Will CBI do what Sebi did not?

If the CBI wants to get at the truth, it has to cast its net wide, without fear or favour

Games foreign banks want to play on Indian turf

They are not willing to explore the mass market, fighting it out with local banks. The new target is the cream of retail business, which has been growing at a speed never seen before

BS Views of the week: Cost of Ukraine war, free speech, Nehru's legacy, and more

Business Standard's opinion pages this week focused on gas prices, Nehru's legacy, the Ukraine war, and much more >

The Indian Entitled Service

Some posts are not named but a number of posts at a certain level are declared to be "encadred" or reserved

Bollywood economics

Given the significance of music in Hindi films, it is not surprising that filmmakers chose to milk it for ideological reasons

Behind the curve on metaverse

The metaverse won't work unless it's a seamless environment available on the move