Like the rest she had complained often about heat and flies in India. But how much they all talked aboutthis at home, at weddings, at celebrations at the 27-gam Charotar Patidar Samaj. Wasn't it that sense of beingbetter off than Indians in India that had helped them all survive England? She thought of all the incompetentwhites who had been promoted above her in her 28 years at the bank. Those attitudes, those looks, those thingsleft half said. The British had become such masters of insults within limits of correctness. British? English,she should say. Because she too had been British, at least her passport had said so until it all changed.