[ravager]

UK’s current economic debt is roughly £1 trillion pound for a country with a £2.2 trillion pound economy. Thats nearly 47% debt. £280million a year is peanuts even to pay off their own economic debt, let alone do anything for India. So peanuts is right!

Believe it or not, India has her own foreign aid program (roughly worth $1.5 billion) to Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma and West Africa.

Recently India bailed out Europe with $2 billion dollars...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-give-2bn-to-fund-bailouts-in-Europe/articleshow/9463341.cms

And lent $10 billion dollars to IMF....
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-reversal-of-fortune-india-lends-to-imf/630443/

[LibWhacker]

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?