Why would India want a ‘special relationship’ with us?

If my experience with Indian call centres is anything to go by, oh no!

If my experience of Indian clients is anything to go by, double oh no!

I am in no way a racist and have clients of many nationalities and skin shades. A decent person is a decent person but speaking from experience

those from the sub continent always want 60% of your time and are like 1% of your client base. They are always out to get something for nothing even when you have made clear there is no margin to deal further.They weedle and whine and if they dont come out on top they get very uppity and blame everyone but themselves. Lying is an acceptable part of their culture and you have to be very careful indeed with doing business with them.

Having experienced this a number if time now and fortunately not being in a jurisdiction where political correctness is an issue, I have learned my lesson and just wont do business with them now. Not welcome.

I suppose we our govt is out to curry favour.

Oh dear dear. What to do?

Who is looking for special relationship. The U.K or India. Some years ago, U .K had an upper hand, a developed and rich nation but the fortunes have turned and now India may have an upper hand with a stable democratic, growing economy with a well educated workforce, its companies taking over Eurpean, British and American comapnies, like Jaguar, Tetley Tea and scores of other famous compnies.

But Indians are well balanced and rationale people and they would want an equal relatioship. They have a lot to learn from the Britishers. I am sure the Britih P.M. and his team of big businesses leaders will be welcomed with folded hands" Namashte" the traditional greeting and hospitality.

But dont forget Indians are hard bargainers. Good luck David Cameron. Enjoy your trip and some genuine Indian Cuisine.

Dear Anonymous 1 - you may not be a racist, but you certainly are a xenophobe.

Another media wind up; for g**'s sake let's forget about special relationships with anybody, its only mutual back scratching if anything at all; the so called one with the US of A, for instance, has yielded little to our advantage in the UK. It is up to us to produce things for trade that other countries need and stuff the patronising. We went to India with Clive in order to make a profit; yes things are changing and we have to adapt; that Indian newspaper can stuff it up their fundament.

The media love this subject to play with, most of us who read the papers (that use up far too much paper by the way - most of mine goes in the bin, unread) are bored stiff by the matter, I suggest.

I hope this is a media wind up. However, with the number of inter company transfers happening it looks like a way to get cheap labour in the company. We already have thousands of professional IT people out of work yet many indians taking the jobs. The next step will be people in the professional legal system out of work due to Indians taking their jobs. The wages are just getting pushed down so far at ridiculous rates. Will be interesting if the indian workers pay the correct UK tax also ? Alot of my ex colleague indian workers were also driving uninsured in their cars. The country is getting sold off!

Do a search for most mainstream religions and the news, and you'll find exactly the same mixture of racist remarks from the British as we see here, and also atrocities/crimes committed by those religons. Do a search for Sikhism though and the recent news and the most you'll find is 'Sikh man dies chasing after theif to reclaim stolen handbag'. Interesting. Never taught a Sikh who was rude; never met one who was unemployed; never heard of a crime committed by one. I'm just saying.

Come to think of it, most of the 'A' grades attained at the last school I taught at were Sikh students, making up manfully and womanfully for the white underclass they had to tolerate to be educated.

We should be careful whom we criticise - I in no way wish to reflect the unpleasantness about Indians here or to connect myself with prejudiced views of any other nation, but when I've heard business people being racist the types of remarks we've heard here are much more often levelled at Nigerians and Africans generally. I do wonder whether it's just an insular British thing about foreigners generally.

Lastly, I'm very suprised by 'lying is part of their culture'.... people in glass houses...

Do we really need them more than they need us? A simple test would be to have equal bilateral levels of "red tape" and anti foreign laws.

So no Indian national may own UK property, no majority owned Indian firms.. the list goes on.

How quickly do you think the Indian government and perhaps more importantly its rich and succesful UK based business men would lobby for a change in the Indian restrictions.

Although it is some years since I last visited India, it was a very poor place then. Bicycles or scooters (if you were very lucky) for the family transport with an early 1950s Morris Oxford for the real "pukka sahibs".

Even the very rich, living inside walled compounds, had to expect to have squatter camps of refugees parked against their outside walls. Double digit growth is great but 10% of s.f.a. is still not very much.

Re. the "authentic" cuisine, I love Indian food (even make my own quite regularly) and some of the worst I have ever tasted was, actually, in India. The restaurant of our 5* hotel in Goa wouldn't have lasted for a week in an average British city.

And as for Indian Call Centres!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well at least we have indians working on our National Health and Inland Revenue systems. What we will have next is Indian tax inspectors and Indian Lawyers and an Indian call centres. Come to think of it great idea I will go and be one of the lazy brits living off the country.

lets learn from the americans then

my job went to india

http://pragprog.com/titles/mjwti/my-job-went-to-india

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780976694014

http://insidetech.monster.com/topics/2837-my-job-of-8years-just-went-to-india/posts

i enjoy english cuisine abroad , but then its not authentic is it

there are very few genuine indian restuarents about - most are pakistani and bangladeshi.......... thats the incredible thing pakistani passing off as indian!!!!!

I have no great like, or dislike for India.I am more or less indifferent.

Now that India is so successful,perhaps the hundreds of millions of pounds that India receives in aid from the British taxpayer will no longer be needed.

A more successful India might also keep more of it's people within it's own borders and reduce the strain on the infra structure of our already overcrowded country.

I don't particularly want a 'Special Relationship 'with either the USA or India,and I do not want to be wound up by Citywire.

I am with Ben Coulthard. I used to employ Manchester based joiners and carpenters. They continually drove me to near bankruptcy with their poor workmanship, dishonesty, theft and general disregard for their high paying employer. I was then fortunate to be introduced to some Hindu Indian craftsmen. Their workmanship is simply the best. Their honesty is impeccable. Their loyalty is almost embarrassing. These men are mostly Untouchables from Gujurat. They have worked for me for decades. What more needs to be recognised about India if it produces people like this?

Well, well, CityWire aren't we clever clogs then, this topic was a cert to wind up the readers; its something the BNP might be proud to have come up with.

The "Hindu" outburst smacks of a child harbouring a resentment and imagining to get its own back against Mother, on becoming a teenager; reflect, teenage is soon left behind; well for most of us.

However one might define it, there is already a special, or at least a particular, relationship between our two countries; and not only with India, there is still the notion of Commonwealth that won't go away. Britain introduced the system of parliamentary government in India and a language that would serve as a lingua franca to overcome the babel of too many tongues; one could go on.

A special relationship is not a contrivance to be talked to death about, it is a sharing of common interests, warts and all, that just happens to exist; but too much emphasis on the warts can eventually destroy it, which serves no useful purpose to either party in the relationship.

Take a trip to Chicago airport and look at the queues of Indians flying between the US and India. The US is way ahead of the UK in developing relationships with India: Odd when you think of our historic relationship and the number of families of Indian origin resident for generations in the UK.

Lets have equality with India , no more aid because India has more billionaires than EBritain , the same import duty ect.

I have have a feeling that the Indians will wipe the floor with Cameron & co.

Normski

Indians fall into two groups those that love the legacy of the Raj - democracy, railways & to an extent education. And those that do not, the communistic socialists particularly.

But we make it difficult to be loved too. For generations the Maharajahs sons went to Eton. Now it's Harvard and Geelong. WHY? Because our higher education institutes have been dumbed down to the extent that a British education is seen as a lesser qualification to the US & Aus.

We are also seen to prefer to import Eastern Europeans for jobs here.

Is not India still in the Commonwealth and the Queen its titular head? What do the Indians get from that? Despite years of Indian's hard work learning to speak and write english better than most Brits those wanting to come here to expand their knowledge find themselves in a queue behind a whole pile of barely educated non english speaking people.

We had a head start and blew it. It will be far more difficult to regain lost ground.

Curry favour? Best pun I've heard this year. Anon1 may be a xenophobe, but he's a very funny raita.