The Gulf conflict tested one kind of resilience; the years ahead will test others. India met the first test in good order When strikes closed the Strait of Hormuz at the end of February — the channel through which close to a fifth of the world’s oil and the bulk of India’s crude oil and cooking gas pass — the script for India seemed already written. A country that imports nine-tenths of its crude and more than half its cooking gas through the Gulf was, by the textbook, headed for queues at the pump, empty kitchens, a run on the rupee and a scramble for dollars. Nearly four months on, with the Strait reopening and crude back near its pre-crisis level, none of that came to pass.