Washington’s envoy to New Delhi is bringing an unusually blunt style to a relationship that prefers results over diplomatic choreography. Diplomacy usually rewards the careful sentence. But Sergio Gor, unbridled by diplomatic posturing, appears to prefer the ‘useful’ one. As his recent visit to India showed, Gor, ever since taking charge as the United States ambassador to India, has made a habit of saying plainly what previous American diplomats had only implied or altogether