With English not being their strong point the young Indain Foreign Service probationers were sent to the Foreign Service Institute in Delhi. Of the batch of 19,at least six were weak in English. "It is not up to the desired standard", said the Institute's AJai Chaudhary. "for the External Affairs Ministry, English is the language through which we communicate to the outside world; the medium through which we conduct our foreign policy," added Chaudhary, who grooms candidates