Best of BS Opinion: Currency question, star power on bookshelves & more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

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

In the context of the declining value of the Indian rupee, T N Ninan notes that if India’s politicians want a stronger currency, they need to do a better job of managing the economy: Inflation control, productivity improvement, etc. Getting the Reserve Bank of India to spend billions of dollars to boost the rupee is the wrong way to go. Read here

Chintan Girish Modi talks about recent books written by Bollywood celebrities. Read here

One consequence of the absence of accountability is that the actions of our Supreme Court are not exactly predictable to the layman, writes Mihir S Sharma. Read here
 

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“We mark #5YearsofGST, a major tax reform that furthered ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and fulfilled the vision of ‘One Nation, One Tax.’”

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi