Best of BS Opinion: US-India defence cooperation, employment rate & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The pandemic demonstrates how art draws heavily on life. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

If part of a 3-4 per cent fall in real wages is the result of a fall in the wage rate (a fair assumption), then the fall in employment in listed companies is likely to be less than 3 per cent during the first half of 2020-21. Mahesh Vyas explains
 

US-India defence cooperation must not adversely affect the India-Russia interface, says Premvir Das. Despite all the rhetoric, the US will not get involved in any military confrontation that we may have with China
 

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