Best of BS Opinion: 'India's most sincere bank', Army in control & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The crisis in Paytm Payments Bank, what preceded it, and its future; questions on the government’s White Paper; and what seniority does to people in senior managerial positions. Reading for today

Tamal Bandyopadhyay gives the past and the present of Paytm Payments Bank. And has questions for the future.

Debashis Basu asks: How about a White Paper on Vision 2047?

Ajit Balakrishnan: There is a good case to research why 30-something managers slide into a ritualistic life and which of our ways of living and “managing” are just rituals and which are part of real work that benefits us all and society.

The first edit delineates the reasons why India must build on improved macroeconomic stability. The second edit gives a bleak picture of Pakistan’s political future, despite the election.

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Those (tax cuts) are my values, those are the values of my party … Because economic conditions have improved, because the plan is working, you are seeing mortgage rates coming down and we have been able to cut taxes.

 

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak