“Frank says these are double-edged swords. “Tarred roads, the law, Victorian architecture, the steam engine, the watch, the language we speak.” She was quiet for a time and then she tells me, “What did they give us, Paulita? The British?” Otherwise it’s silence as unto the grave, just like his son.” Around guests he is so charming, so brilliant is the conversation. He also has good things to say about them, no?” “My husband says they robbed us for two hundred years.” “What did they give us, Paulita?” she said. If she was some true blue Indian I would have kept my trap shut. She was Portuguese so I knew it was safe to say such things. I asked her once, “Ber, do you think we Indians are qualified to run the country? At least the British knew what they were doing. From Book of chocolate saints - Jeet Thyail
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