I am neither a communist nor a comgressman or for that matter any partyman. As an Indian I think; the debate taking place about N-deal is just right for emerging truth behind the deal. We are fortunate to have parties who fight on the lines of thesis verses antithesis to bring synthesis at last. There should not be any lop sided decision that will push India in certain group of nations. In prevailing environment it is difficult but still a necessary condition for India's soverignity and to maintain internal security. As such N-deal; which is going to change not only India but the world has to be debated to the best of limits. Let government be changed, replaced, toppled but India's interests (political, financial, social or strategic) must be taken care of.It is obvious that N-deal will fetch tremendous benifits for Indias financial development, but one never knows whether India would be able to remain free to take care of interests of her own poor masses. Even after successive favourable monsoons last decade and after accepting to realities of globalisation we have faced sucides of our poor farmers which we never did experience in pre-globalisation era. So whether N-deal will bring disparity down? a million dollar question. Similar questions can be asked on external and internal security. Our social harmony is taking beating. We can not ignore that. We definitely want to progress & want N-deal. But at what cost? So no deal is better than bad deal is true. We must debate!
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by raj on Sep 24, 2007 08:52 PM Permalink
How long the debate until other party say enough is enough ? This is shows how immature our political leadership is. How come noone debated when we singed a stupid "FRIENDSHIP" treaty with the Soviets? Then we claimed we are "non allinged" that was pure BS. And it had whole lot of side effect from US and Western nations, including Japan. It didnt help our economy a bit. Joining with Commie crowd is not going to help India in anyway. You saying you are not a "party man". But you sounds very much like "partyman".
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by Watson Peter on Sep 23, 2007 11:57 AM Permalink
Dear Friend please understand that we had thousand of discussions regarding this, If u let this continue it will go till the world end, time to move forward.
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by Abbas Rumani on Sep 23, 2007 11:34 AM Permalink
Mr. Umesh Joshi N-deal has nothing to do with Globalisation or bringing disparity down. India need more energy and power to sustain its growth and nuclear reactor is one way of generating electrical power. Communist parties are against it because they know with the help of this deal India will become a competitor of China. I am sorry but that is the only reason i find why people like Karat his friends are opposing it. Can any body tell us how will this deal effect or Independance foreign policy and National Intrest? If communist hate USA because they don't believe in capatilist economy than it is their problem not India's
its not possible for anyone to be in the bad books of america and its allies the european union, japan, south korea & taiwan and still enjoy prosperity.
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by antelop on Sep 23, 2007 11:09 AM Permalink
the so called 9% growth rate in the republic of india is due to foreign investment & outsourcing from america. european union, japan, south korea (not from russia or china), the growth rate would return to 0.5% as in the nehroovian-socialist era and a poverty level of over 50% if investments & outsourcing are terminated.
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by Neeraj Kumar on Sep 23, 2007 12:45 PM Permalink
Do you know how much sovereignty we lost by signing the GATT and becoming a member of WTO? So by this logic we should not have signed that. You must understand that in today's globalized world no country can remain 100% sovereign. You have to surrender a little bit of sovereignty for larger goals. We must analyze the agreement, not on the question of sovereignty but whether it is good for India or not in the longer run. It is obvious that India's energy needs can be solved through nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is anyday better than being dependent on OPEC contries.
