Fraught histories of insurgency, multiple uprisings and lack of knowledge about the Northeast have prompted not just its exclusion, but also its exoticisation.
Team from Oxford and Gauhati University says surge in trade between 2014 and 2019 is driven by increase in exports from West Bengal to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
As discounted Russian barrels increasingly flow to China, Indian refiners lift more from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the UAE, while also eyeing Venezuelan cargoes to diversify risk.
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