As a new trading week begins in Mumbai, Indian markets find themselves suspended between competing gravitational forces — the weight of rising crude oil prices and Federal Reserve tightening expectations pulling downward, while the buoyancy of Asian optimism and patient domestic institutional buying pushes upward. The same robust American jobs report that reassured Asia unsettled Wall Street, a reminder that in interconnected economies, good news rarely travels in a straight line. India, deeply exposed to oil import costs and global capital flows, must now navigate a week that will likely be d