What is absent from this essay is a discussion of the importance to any political leader (and Modi in particular) of energy wealth. Demanding Modi not purchase cheap Russian oil is asking him to increase the price of energy that is, decrease India’s energy wealth which outcome his constituents will see and feel, in exchange for what is to most villagers an obscure and invisible goal.
What is absent from this essay is a discussion of the importance to any political leader (and Modi in particular) of energy wealth. Demanding Modi not purchase cheap Russian oil is asking him to increase the price of energy that is, decrease India’s energy wealth which outcome his constituents will see and feel, in exchange for what is to most villagers an obscure and invisible goal.