Coming around by Mr. Varadarajan is a great step for national consensus. This U-turn for The Hindu group could not have come easy. His caveat on prudential strategy is perhaps for internal audiance, or may be clean break is so emotionally taxing!
Once legality is in place, specific implementations would be competitive on all aspects of the deal and application of thought would be of sophisticated order. Makes sense for India to let all compete on level playing ground.
Presently, we need to express our gratitude to US negotiators for taking responsibility to be enablers of the deal on behalf of India.