The British High Commissioner stood up, clapping out of courtesy, but his expression was as if he had just swallowed a fly. The instructions from London were to "win India's support," but they didn't specify wanting this kind of "support" that painted the United Kingdom as a helpless old man and India as the Savior.
The news spread almost in real time across the globe.
Mexico City, National Palace
"The world's third-largest economy?"
Casare looked at the animated face of Prime Minister Gujral on the CNN live broadcast and snorted, "Did their statistics bureau include the economic value of cow dung in their calculations?"
