This is a time to take a step back and reflect. Why compromise our rights in haste? Haste makes waste and nothing worthwhile comes without patient hardwork. I think India should just look inwards. Yes,we'll be slow. Our scientists will need time (which we FEEL we don't have). But in the long run. It's better we try to develop the whole cycle indigeniously rather than be held at gun barrel by the US & Russians or any other cartel members. This does two things. A) It takes us back to our status of Non-Aligned Nation (atleast in terms of Nuclear Group) and B) ensures that the world doesn't get sucked into another round of mass discrimination by the western powers who have so far held the rest of the world to ransom over the last 1000 years by exploiting the knowledge and resources of the continents of Asia and Africa and leaving their people to die in misery. WE HAVE TO REMEMBER. WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TODAY DUE TO WHAT INDIRA GANDHI DID. DO IT OURSELVES. SELF SUFFICIENCY IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING. Even though Nationalisation might be a bit extreme, but keeping things Indian and doing it ourselves is much better than trying to BEG on other person's doorstep to "alleviate" our existing economy situation.
It's worse to beg than to live with honour with minimum resources.
Irrespective of which government it is we should always do what we need ourselves. If we didn't blast the nuke we'd not even get the right to stand and talk today. So just keep that programme going in full strength :-
