RE:Poor Man mohan
by ravi prakash on Oct 25, 2007 05:46 PM
The Nuclear Deal is between two democracies, but the manner in which it is going thru is a study in contrasts. The national self interest of the US is paramount and clearly articulated while our national self interest is in a mess. The author of the article is being simplistic when he says that the deal is about pluck and confidence. The Nuclear deal is certainly about having confidence in our own resources and home grown skills to generate nuclear power in a safe and clean manner. But it is in this area that we have shown our total lack of confidence. We say that we have abundant reserves of Thorium but we do not seem to have the confidence to use this mineral to generate Nuclear energy. At least this is the impression that the Govt wants to convey. On the one hand, our country seeks to have wideranging defence collaboration with the US but on the other we are blocked for producing our own N-weapons. Does one assume that our relationship is limited to only conventional weapons? Why should India accept such absurd arrangements at all. The image of India is not sullied but the image of our leadership is definitely dented. Locally, it was never very encouraging but now we have international confirmation. It is not only the Nuclear Deal, just look at the Foreign affairs track record: The Wheat Deal, the prosecutio of Quatrocchi, the Border Problem with China and Pakistan, the Burma and Tibetan questions. We are like that only!
