Dear Kandasamy,I fully agree with your analysis on the status of Indian nuke tech,that is at the leading edge of global tech knowldge-base.But worries me no end is that this seduction called 123-Deal is a subterfuge for not only prying open our nuke establishment but also infiltrate and break up and bring to tatters the nuke organisation that the country has assiduously built up in these 33 years of nuke isolation.You may ask,how?Take your example of the man from Nagarkovil buying land in the suburbs of Chennai.Now our nuke scientists and technologists are paid as if they are some beggars on the streets of Chembur or if he is eminent then perhaps treated like beggar on Colaba at best!Besides,s/he hardly gets any professional freedom.After going through all those 'efficiency bars'to get that 75 or 100 bucks increment he is shoved out with a solid kick on his backside -however good he may be- at the tick of age 58/60.Now imagine the kind of attraction/ emotion churning a good nuke metallurgist/ physicist will be subjected to when a US/European nuke establishment offers him a senior position in their lab,after India operationalises the 123-Hatchet Plan!Is the situation not akin to your Nagarkovil youth getting an opportunity to own land in Chennai?And that is one of the objectives of US.As you said,their tech human resource has dangerously dried up.India's is waiting to be poached!What better way than seduction?You will witness mass exodus after lifting of intrnatnl'apartheid'!
