To prove to the world that India was a reliable partner, the government did something very dramatic. They physically packed up 47 tons of gold from the national reserve and shipped it to the Bank of England as collateral for an emergency loan. While this was a very humbling moment for a proud nation, it was necessary to win back the trust of global investors. This move showed that India was serious about its new path. According to Das, this act of "mortgaging the family gold" was the ultimate proof that the country was moving away from a "socialist dream" and toward a "global reality" (231). This new reality created the wealthy, international world that we see Darcy and Lalita navigating in the movie.
Works Cited:
Das, Gurcharan. India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age.Knopf, 2001.https://inspiredforias.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/india-unbound-by-gurcharan-das.pdf