Hamish Clayton

Rachana Shanbhogue, business editor covering global companies and markets, tracks Iran’s shadow oil trade and the risky importance of Kharg Island. Kira Huju, Asia correspondent, visits India’s fading Maoist strongholds and the tensions left behind. Hamish Clayton, culture writer, explores the overlooked world of theatre understudies and why they are suddenly getting attention.

Hamish Clayton, a theatre and arts writer, on understudies, their pay and backstage pressures. Kira Huju, an Asia correspondent, on India’s fight with Maoist insurgents and life in former rebel areas. Rachana Shanbhogue, a business affairs editor, on how Iran evades sanctions to sell oil and who profits from rising prices.