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The raw-material paradox: why cheaper crude oil has not meant cheaper petrol A decade of asymmetric taxation, a pandemic windfall captured by the state, and a diluted product sold at full price have combined to leave the Indian motorist paying record amounts for something that should, by any rational reckoning, cost far less Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan hYDERABAD T here is a puzzle at the heart of Indian fuel pricing that deserves more scrutiny than it typically receives. In 2014, crude oil — the raw material from which petrol is refined — traded at $105 per barrel. Indian motorists in Delhi paid ₹72 per litre at the pump. Today, the same crude costs roughly $96 per barrel, a decline of nearly 9%. Yet the same Delhi motorist now pays ₹102 per litre, and the Mumbaikar pays ₹111. The raw material became cheaper. The final product became dramatically more expensive. This is the Indian fuel paradox, and its explanation lies not in the global oil market, but in the domestic architecture of taxat...

  Structural Cracks in the Indian Economy — A Conversation with Arvind Subramanian India is weathering a painful economic storm. Fuel prices have surged four times in under two weeks, the rupee has slid sharply against the dollar, and airlines are pulling back both international and domestic flights. The government has framed much of this as collateral damage from an external conflict — but former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, now a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argues that this framing misses the deeper point. In a recent interview on Decoder with anchor Nidhi Razdan, he laid out why India's vulnerabilities are not just a product of geopolitical shock, but of longer-term structural failures that the country has yet to squarely confront. A Crisis That Pre-Dates the War The war has undeniably delivered a severe blow — not just through higher energy costs, but also through rising fertiliser prices, potential declines in Gulf r...

  Press Release — For Immediate Release Hyderabad | June 4, 2026 Blue India Party Demands Immediate Resignation Of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Over Neet Paper Leak Scandal A National Betrayal of India's Youth Hyderabad: The Blue India Party today strongly condemned the repeated and shameful failure of the Union Education Ministry under Dharmendra Pradhan , demanding his immediate resignation for the colossal breach of trust caused by the NEET-UG paper leaks — a crisis that has devastated the dreams of lakhs of honest, hardworking students across the country. This is not a mere "irregularity." It is a criminal collapse of the examination system , orchestrated under Pradhan's watch. The systematic leaking of NEET question papers has robbed meritorious students of their futures, shattered families, and laid bare the rotten state of governance within the Education Ministry. While sincere aspirants burn the midnight oil, corrupt elements — operatin...

  The Revival Work of Ramanadham Ramesh Background India has a long and celebrated history in cotton and handloom textiles. For centuries, Indian weavers produced some of the finest naturally dyed and naturally coloured fabrics exported across the globe. Among these, naturally coloured cotton — where the fibre acquires its colour directly from the plant, without any dyeing — held a special place. Varieties in red, green, brown, and other hues once thrived across the subcontinent. Over the last century, industrialisation and the rise of genetically modified hybrid cotton steadily displaced these indigenous varieties. Today, even the more resilient red cotton strains — notably Gollaprolu Red Cotton and Konda Patti from the Srikakulam region of Andhra Pradesh — are struggling to survive. The Revivalist: Ramanadham Ramesh At the centre of the effort to reverse this decline is Ramanadham Ramesh , a craft revivalist and eco-conscious farmer based in Hyderabad. Driven by a comm...

 

  Based on a speech/talk in Telugu by Dr. Devaraju Maharaju  Some people say Nehru belongs to the past. Personally, I believe he belongs not only to the past but to the present and the future as well. Building a nation requires immense effort and sacrifice — and Nehru demonstrated both through his life. His life stands as an ideal not just for the older generation, but for today's youth and generations yet to come. I hold this belief firmly. He was a visionary, an atheist, a rationalist — but setting all of that aside, there is one thing that must be spoken of without fail: Scientific Temper . The man who coined the term "scientific temper" and gave it to the world was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. This phrase is now used globally, and people must remember that it was Nehru who gave us those words. The Roots of Scientific Thought in India Did scientific temper begin with Nehru? Not quite. India was actually home to the world's earliest materialists. It was India tha...