Vandana Hari is founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based global energy market intelligence provider.
A meteoric rise in India's imports of heavily discounted Russian crude oil over the past year and a half, engendered by Western sanctions against Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine, has prompted a gush of commentary. Not a small part of it has been negative, but much of the concern and criticism has been misplaced.
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