I have — or had — “friends” who have asked me for money and then got all indignant about it when I didn’t offer them as much as they thought I should. Which always struck me as ridiculous. It’s my decision, not theirs. Beggars can’t be choosers, etc.
I wonder if this little eruption has more to do with the bitterness some Indians still feel toward Britain over the British Raj?
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/article2863252.ece?homepage=true
The only “bitterness” here is that manufactured by sensationalist rags like the Daily Mail which first played up the aid issue after the Eurofighter lost the fighter contract when logic would dictate that there was no issue at all. And then started peddling the Peanuts argument after another British paper led with it.
If there was bitterness in India, India wouldn’t have had the kind of strategic ties with the UK as illustrated in the article I’ve linked above. The net worth of arms purchases for the UK from 1950-2010 was 15 billion USD; the corresponding figure for France was 4 billion.
This is from the article.....
“Sources in Delhi suggested British officials begged India to accept the aid. One commented: ‘They said British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate.They said it would be highly embarrassing if [India] pulled the plug.”
Have you ever had a case with your “friends” where you had to beg them to take your money even if they didn't want to? And were they indignant? If yes, then they had every right to be so.
“I wonder if this little eruption has more to do with the bitterness some Indians still feel toward Britain over the British Raj?”
Indians dont gives cr@p about the Raj. This eruption had to do with Brits losing $20 billion contract.....to who? The French! The Brits presumed the “aid” would make Indians more amenable to giving the contract to the Brits. That didn't happen.