It has already been remarked in these columns that the deal went wrong with the Hyde Act. In their enthusiasm, the American NRI that helped to push the deal through forgot to realise that they were involoved in a political exercise in which many actors were persuing their own agendas. Just any deal was never going to meet Bharat's requirement desparate that she is for nuclear fuel to keep her nuclear reacters going.
As a consequence of their oversight, America found a golden opportunity to bring Bharat into the non-proliferation regime, something she had refused all these years. The deal is one-sided in America's favour. No one with an ounce of sanity would put their name to it, except of course Dr Singh and his alter ego Sonia Gandhi and his Government.
The clever wording may have convinced Bharat's masses that it is the best thing since sliced bread until they wake up from the hangover. One good consequence of the deal is that it exposes Bharat's ramshackle of a constitution and Bharat's political institutions, which will not only have to be overhauled but scrapped. Our race is not known for the vigour with which it persues remedial actions, and if it chooses to make its bed with all such acts and omissions, then our country rightly deserves all ills and sins that will inevitably befall it.
