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Best of Business Standard Opinion: What sits outside the frame also exists

What makes these risks dangerous is not only their existence, but the ease with which institutions can ignore them when they are difficult to measure, explain or fit into established categories

Best of Opinion: Disruption can't be stopped; resilience lies in response

The real test of a system is not whether it can prevent every disruption. It is whether it has enough buffers, flexibility and institutional capacity

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

Meesho content commerce surges 152% as non-metro creators drive growth

About 90 per cent of Meesho's active creators are nano-creators, while 81 per cent come from non-metro India and 66 per cent of orders come from Tier-III and Tier-IV markets

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

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

After iPhone, Adobe brings Premiere mobile video editing app to Android

Adobe Premiere's Android app brings professional-style editing to smartphones, with multi-track timelines, precise cuts, audio enhancement, 4K export and AI-powered creative tools

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

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

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

Power lasts only when the underlying institutions are credible

Kuku Technologies plans 1,000 hires for AI-powered content production

The mobile-content company is building an AI-native production unit to cut costs and accelerate the creation of micro-dramas for India and global markets

Best of BS Opinion: Symptoms demand attention, solutions require diagnosis

A military strike is mistaken for strategy, even when no one has planned what comes next

Best of BS Opinion: Durable progress depends on systems that work

Numbers, brands and ideas may all signal progress, but it's systems, these pieces tell us, that actually decide the durability of progress

Best of BS Opinion: Buffers cannot carry a system forever

As these pieces tell us, stability will not come from stockpiles, settlements, symbolic defences or inherited structures alone. It will come from the capacity to adapt when old buffers no longer hold

Best of BS Opinion: Power without guardrails becomes a risk

Power needs limits, markets need protection, development needs ecological restraint, capital narratives need scrutiny, and technology needs human oversight

Best of BS Opinon: Policy credibility needs coherence, not action alone

Institutions build trust, these pieces show, not by doing more, but by making their actions add up

Best of BS Opinion: Quick fixes cannot substitute for structural reform

We see a pattern in messages across these pieces: Temporary management can buy time, but durable change needs structural reform