Perhaps Dr Manmohan Sigh after Nehru is the most knowledgable person about very status of India.He was with Dept of Atomic Energy for long time. Any international isolation doesnot mean termination of development. But spending many fold expendicture for inferior eqpts or techology when much more one is available in market for cheaper rate. In DAE a really large chunk of money is spend as commission to importers who import nuclear equipements from USA/ EU THROUGH singapore. A 100$ item reaches Indian laboratories at 50 to 100 times more price tag.
Left drama is to please a dominant minority who has very big role in deciding Governments on Kerala & to some extend in W.Bengal also. I request them not to link Iraq or Vietnam wars to nuk deal. China holds a lot of Indian land but still our markets are flooded by their products.