Signing this agreement has been a fantasy..... both the nations are talking about it quite for sometime,but nothing has to a formal accord. This agreement is significant at least for India, since many of our projects are on standstill after the sanctions which the US imposed on us after the nuclear tests. In this era, no one ignore the importance of the US and getting into an agreement with them on this will be strategic importance. Even if it is important to sign the agreement, we need not bend our backbones to the Americans. They also know they can't just avoid India, so its their priority too.