Ambassador retired former high commissioner of India to the UK and Chief Information Commissioner of India, Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, gave a lecture on India-UK relations in the contemporary context. Sinha highlighted the historical ties between India and the UK dating back to 400 years ago during the reign of Jehangir, and also mentioned the increasing globalised world. He said that although India now is a system maker and not just a system taker, since India overtook the UK as the fifth largest economy few months ago. He said that India is party to a lot of bilateral and multilateral rules and has an active positions in the formation of the same. Sinha also spoke about how underwhelming India-UK relations are economically. He said that the UK was not even in the top 15 trading partners of India while India held 12th position in the list of UK's trading partner. He said that position of India is significant when it comes to investment in the UK. He said that India was the second largest investor in the UK last year after the US. He said that UK has always been one of the most preferable education destinations so much that when there is a problem, it becomes a bilateral relation. Sinha cited an example regarding the policy of poststudy work
