Best of BS Opinion: Recovery story treads on thin ice, Covid vaccine & more

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Uddalok Bhattacharya  |  New Delhi 

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The markets and the economy are not in agreement. However, stocks respond well to the haze of the vaccine story. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Markets are exuberant, and it is easy to see why. Akash Prakash describes the risks to this

The government has predicted that the economy would recover in the second half of the current fiscal year … (But) either stopped in the third quarter or it stopped showing up in recovery in employment. Mahesh Vyas gives details

Nivedita Mookerji talks of the tale of committees in the run-up to vaccine.

But there have been plenty of committees before ever since Covid arrived on the scene. Do those still meet in some form or the other?

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An unusual man, an elegant perceptive writer and what an original career forged out of so much hardship. Publisher Chiki Sarkar on Ved Mehta

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First Published: Tue, January 12 2021. 06:20 IST
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