Best of BS Opinion: The 'freebies' debate, on path of science, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

Here is the best of Business Standard’s opinion pieces for Saturday.
 

On the freebies debate, T N Ninan in his weekly column notes that getting the Supreme Court to issue an edict, or Parliament to pass a law, is no solution— the fiscal responsibility law, for instance, has achieved nothing. Read here

The very expression of disbelief in the integrity and independence of the investigative system leads in the end to that system’s loss of integrity and independence, writes Mihir S Sharma

Kumar Abishek reviews India’s progress in science and technology since independence.