Best of BS Opinion: Dealing with national crisis, protecting press freedom

From the reasons India needs to focus on manufacturing competitiveness rather than building domestic supply chains and why the absorption of urban labour into rural regions cannot explain the recent surge in employment in urban India to how the disconnect between the economic narrative and the stock markets is getting progressively wider, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.
 

India should seriously re-work its FTA strategy to focus on regulatory issues and investment-inducing provisions, writes Amita Batra, professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Read on...

India must reorient its growth strategy