Robert Guest

What India does for Britain

issue 29 September 2012

Was it the sumptuous leather armchairs? Or the perfect teacups? Or the toothsome selection of custard creams and ginger nuts? I have never sat in a more quintessentially English workplace than the London office of Tata, India’s largest conglomerate.

Travellers to India often remark that many Indians love British culture more than Brits do.

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