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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

YouTube updates channel monetisation rules after 8 years: What's changing

YouTube will raise the bar for new creators joining its Partner Program from February 2027, requiring 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views to qualify for ad and Premium revenue sharing

Best of BS Opinion: Systems must build safeguards before crises hit

Weak measurement systems distort markets before trust breaks down. Artificial intelligence raises human questions long before the technology becomes impossible to govern

Best of BS Opinion: The real meaning of systems lies beneath the surface

Systems cannot be understood by labels alone, show these pieces. Their real meaning lies in the roots, networks and relationships beneath the surface

Best of BS Opinion: Durable progress depends on distributed capacity

Top-down ambition, these pieces show, may set the direction, but durable progress depends on distributed capacity

Best of BS Opinion: Competitiveness is built by openness and clarity

Whether in retail, football, industry, capital flows or public finance, the systems that win are those willing to open up, disclose more, compete harder and adapt faster

Best of BS Opinion: The missing links beyond visible progress

Visible progress matters, as these pieces show, but missing links decide how far it can go