Best of BS Opinion: Women's rights as a power play, Different lanes & more

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

Politics around women as a constituency, and India’s energy economy. Reading for today

Kanika Datta: With elections approaching, women have become the focus of political contestations, with political parties falling over themselves to offer all manner of welfare schemes. Together with the reservation of seats for women on corporate boards and in Parliament, both moves with which I profoundly disagree, the competitive populism centred on women only serves to underline the cynical political manipulation of a deeply discriminated section of society

Kaushik Deb: It makes perfect sense that the International Energy Agency should seek to include India as a full member, given the outsized role the country will play in the global energy transition over the next decade or so. 

The first edit highlights the benefits and risks of Indian bonds being included in global indices. The second edit says restructuring will help Tata Motors.

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We are now in the first week of March. Given the kind of momentum of economic activity...I will not hesitate to say that there is every possibility of the 7.6 per cent growth for the current year being exceeded.

 

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das