Best of BS Opinion: Another Afghan tragedy, Tata's ambitions, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day.

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday

The Tata group is on a roll. Tata Motors has doubled its share of the car market over the past year and Tata Steel is enjoying a price boom, while Tata Consultancy Services and Titan continue to chug along. The group is still heavily in debt, but the burden is shrinking. Investors are enthused; the group’s market capitalisation has soared over the past year and more. However, as T N Ninan notes in his column, there are contradictions in the group’s strategy. Read here

This time, America didn’t just fight a war in Afghanistan but also invested a great deal of time, money and emotion in nation-building. Only to leave it like a possible Syria in South Asia, writes Shekhar Gupta

Mihir S Sharma writes that India needs to emerge from COP26 with a deal that the prime minister can credibly claim will, over the next decade, mobilise trillions of dollars in climate-oriented private finance towards the emerging world, including India. Read here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I am against the mixing of two different vaccines. There is no need to mix two different vaccines.”

 

Serum Institute of India chairman Cyrus Poonawalla