Best of BS Opinion: Rights violations, reflections of a US trip, and more

The right to property, like the right to free expression, was enshrined in the Constitution and then weakened by short-sighted governments. Yet both are essential for stable investment and growth, the top edit points out. Read it here

In other views:

Akash Prakash spoke to investors in the US and concluded that there is positive sentiment for India but foreign selling will continue in the short term. Read it here

M S Sahoo & Sumit Agrawal unpack the market regulator’s order prohibiting entities for individuals from association with the securities market, an Indian innovation with probably no parallel elsewhere, they write. Read it here

The second edit asks why India has such a modest life expectancy rate and high infant mortality rate despite having one of the largest child immunisation and nutrition programmes in the world. Read it here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

‘The market is gradually coming to terms with the narrative of structural inflation and the Fed’s articulated intention to control inflation by any means’

 

Manishi Raychaudhuri, Asia-Pacific equity strategist at BNP Paribas