Best of BS Opinion: Funny side of economics, coronavirus spread, and more

For many sides of coronavirus, read on. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up the views.

Namaste is the new ‘Hello’, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray. This is bound to please former HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi

There are many scenarios about how badly Indians may be affected or killed by COVID-19. But they presume 1.36 billion people will do nothing to influence their fates. Shekhar Gupta explains
 

India did not create the problem. But if it had a better functioning government system, it would have been able to deal with it at lower cost to its citizens. T N Ninan writes
 

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