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Best of Opinion: Feedback ignored may return as friction, mistrust, failure

Healthy systems do not just impose, regulate or command. They also listen, learn and adjust before feedback becomes breakdown

Best of Business Standard Opinion: How to convert possibility into outcomes

Opening the door creates opportunity, show these pieces. But what happens beyond it depends on the capability to walk through

Best of Business Standard Opinion: Intention vs transmission in policy

These pieces show that intentions matter, but transmission decides what survives the journey from policy, price or principle to the real world

How the fashionable Indian was spoilt for choice after 1991 reforms

Liberalisation brought a flood of international brands into India, but failed to help create a global brand from within the country

Want to become a regional corporate giant: Milky Mist's T Sathish Kumar

It is a myth that a firm needs a corporate office in a high-rise in a major city like Chennai or Bengaluru, Kumar says. The Milky Mist corporate office sits directly above factory in a rural setting

Tracking the outliers: 10 stocks zoom ahead amid weak and volatile markets

Just about 38% of BSE 500 stocks have delivered positive returns in the past year

Best of BS Opinion: Durable growth is rarely built on a narrow base

Today's Best of BS Opinion weighs GCC expansion, liquor prohibition, jobs and growth, corporate India, and India's economic roadmap

Best of BS Opinion: Adjusting to a new equilibrium before reality bites

Even geopolitical orders survive in the habits of people long after the world around them has changed. The difficult part is recognising the shift early enough to manage it

'In 1991, we faced both an economic as well as external relations crisis'

Saran says that India must shore up relations in its neighbourhood before it can aim for global leadership and that it must not succumb to pressure from the United States

Setting up NSE was the biggest reform in the capital mkts: Raamdeo Agrawal

Raamdeo Agrawal, cofounder and chairman of Motilal Oswal Financial Services talks about how reforms changed the equity culture in India

India Inc failed to ramp up R&D spends despite '90s economic reform push

Cumulative spending on R&D was just $7.2 bn in FY26, against $61 bn spent by Alphabet alone in 2025

Best of BS Opinion: Constraints can help sharpen strategy

Constraints force priorities, expose weak assumptions and reward systems that learn to work within limits rather than pretend those limits do not exist

Best of BS Opinion: Power is not the same as control

Leverage is rarely absolute. Markets adjust, institutions push back, capabilities matter, and pressure can produce resistance instead of compliance

The economic reforms paradox: A few states dominate FDI inflows

Just seven states accounted for nearly 82% of all FDI equity inflows to India from January 2000 to March 2026

Best of BS Opinion: Maturity lies in managing risks that progress creates

The real test is not whether a system can reach the next milestone. It is whether it can manage what comes after

Bluechip valuation slump offers value bets amid weak investor sentiment

The BSE Sensex has fallen 6.8% since the end of September 2025, with its trailing P/E multiple down 10.8%

Best of BS Opinion: A test of how power becomes credible

Power lasts only when the underlying institutions are credible

Wholesale changes have not happened in civil services: M Veerappa Moily

There is a pronounced tendency to centralise now… Centralisation will not take the country forward, either socially or economically, he said

The word control had become anathema for us in 1991: Sudha Pillai

Pillai tells that the CCI could have done more to curb concentration, and social protection should have featured more prominently in the reforms

Bengal Beckons: West Bengal FM Swapan Dasgupta's 'look east' policy

West Bengal finance minister calls for respecting relative differences of eastern states but acknowledging their commonality