In India, crematoriums have stopped using gas to burn their dead and restaurants have stopped deep frying food. In Pakistan, civil servants are working a four-day week and, in Bangladesh, universities have shut and exams have been cancelled.
The US-Israeli war on Iran has disrupted energy supplies across the globe but south Asia, which depends heavily on Gulf nations for its gas, has been among the worst affected regions.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told Indians “there is no need to panic” but the world’s most populous nation is awash with reports of hoarding, theft and price gouging as citizens rush to secure supplies of increasingly scarce cylinders of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used mainly for cooking.
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