India was not in technology apartheid since 1974 and even before 1974 it has not received any technology from USA either. All came from the Soviet Union, without it India could not have industrial development, oil refinery, oil fields, space research, missile development, nuclear weapons and power development and aircraft industries. The author does not want to recognize that because in that case he will not get any Bungalow in New Delhi.
What has India gained by giving up Five Years Plan: now 80 percent of the population in India live with less than $2 a day, the world definition of poor.
What has India gained by Sakti Tests, when Indian missiles are not fitted with any nuclear weapons. India already gave up its nuclear weapons by the India-US Nuclear Treaty it has signed.
Indian Missiles all came from Russia, but that source will dry up very soon, when India has joined the US camp. Thus, Indian space and missile research would end very soon.
This are the kind of authors Indian media is promoting: all slaves and without any brain. Has he got a Harvard MBa just like George Bush or Ramsfeld or Armitage or Chaney