It's trash, but there will be many in India that see these silly gestures as some sort of symbol that India has “become someone.” It's the same sort of junk as when Schroeder talked of his “Deutscher Weg” and stabbed the US in the back. Many on the political right actually found themselves supporting this liberal politician because of how the scenario was framed.
These are simply cheap shots and the people that walk around beating their chest with their new found national pride are sheep.
Peanuts or walnuts, these comments were reported in the British press as being attributed to remarks made during a Indian parliamentary session last year.
The ‘peanuts’ comment was made in reference to the quantum of British aid to total Indian development expenditure rather than being directed at the British government. There was no mention of it in the Indian press last year. British tabloids have played up the claim to fuel a frenzy over aid to India after it decided against buying a half-British fighter.
India is the second fastest growing economy currently and has been growing at time at 10% growth rate. Unlike UK (or even US) its no longer a failing economy that is drowning in deep debt. For over a decade and half India had a budget surplus and a surplus of foreign currency reserve. In a few years India will topple UK (also France and Germany) to become the 4th largest economy in the world.
So they want to stand on their own feet and not live off handouts (as they rightly should). What exactly do you find wrong with that? Or it it the fact that those brown skinned third world country asserting their economic independence is what is turning you off? Which is it?