When Rishi Sunak finally got to meet his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, on Saturday, it was not entirely what the British prime minister had hoped for.
India and the UK are respectively the fifth and sixth biggest economies in the world, and the two countries’ leaders had been scheduled to meet a day earlier, at Modi’s grand residence in New Delhi. But diplomacy can be brutal and Sunak found himself, if not exactly snubbed, certainly shunted down the pecking order.
