The problem with India is many of the things pointed out in this article, but it is also journalists who are uninformed and intellectually weak that they are incapable of performing their mission of informing and educating rather than brainlessly repeating slogans and stereotypes. In item c) above Sheela Bhat says that since the nuclear deal is not about dealing with inflation and therefore is just tamasha and driving agendas. So does that mean that Sheela does not support an education policy since that does not bring down inflation? Or how about support for womens rights, prevending female infanticide, etc. They all do not reduce inflation so they are all tamasha and they should be thrown out, right. In fact even drilling for oil and natural gas will only affect the economy 10 years after the first seismic surveys are done so they should all be abandoned. We should all only look one inch in front of our noses and deal with the immidiate problem we see there. We should not consider the fact that we would not be having an energy inflation problem right now if we had large scale nuclear energy resources and large scale oil & gas exploration 10 years ago. Because we should have the intelligence of rats who cannot look ahead to the problems 5 or 10 years from now. There is absolutely no question that building up our nuclear industry without reducing our nuclear defence will boost india both economically and politically in the long term. Opposition to it is mentally bankrupt.
