I don't know what Rajeev's credentials are but he's missing one big picture - Why does he and the others who oppose the deal always think that this deal is only about nuclear energy?
The deal will open the door for India to act on world stage which She cannot ignore by not going for this deal. Does the author think India has the talent to act on world stage without the good friendship with big powers? And this deal is one important step in getting closer to the other world powers.
One would argue what's the purpose that She be in international focus. Think about what happened in early 90's when India was a closed economy and the PM had to open the doors. My opinion is with a billion strong population, it's a MUST and not an OPTION that She take leadership of the world not just for her interests, but in the larger interest of the world.
RE:Rajeev credentials
by Bhaumik on Apr 25, 2008 06:45 AM Permalink
Rajeev's credentials? He is an RSS activist who contributes narrow extremist view-points of RSS on the net.
He has a fan following of people who share his Islam-phobia and fundamentalist view points. When he write anything else, he is completely out of depth and ignorant of the topic as in the present case.
If you Google him you will find his oeuvre, a typical one is that in which he theorizes that the tsunami that killed 25000 opeople world-wide was sent by Gods as a punishment for the arrest of Kanchi Sankarachaya by the TN Government. Also, his articles (in rediff itself!) after the Gujarat riots are revealing of his journalistic inclinations..
He is a contributor of articles in similar vein to Rediff.
RE:Rajeev credentials
by Sahadevan KK on Apr 25, 2008 02:49 PM Permalink
I fully agree with Bhaumik. We comrades pay a lot of money to all our shills in the media. We hate it when someone writes against us. Of course, if an RSS guy has an opinion, we shout against printing it, as comrade Bhaumik does here. But when our comrade guys have opinions, (eg "China's chairman is our chairman", or "Tibet belongs to China"), we shout from the rooftops about freedom of speech.
RE:Rajeev credentials
by Bhaumik on Apr 26, 2008 06:37 AM Permalink
"Sahadevan KK" (why hide under someone else's name?),
That's a cheap shot. I am neither your comrade nor your own fundementalist/ extremist type.
I hate any kind of extremism, whether it is yours/ Rajeev Sreeenivsan's or that of the leftist. The worst is religious extremism (like tali**ban's, yours).
RE:Rajeev credentials
by Manjula A on Apr 25, 2008 02:37 PM Permalink
It's just that China pays a lot of money and money appeals as much to saffroninst as to pinkos.
RE:Rajeev credentials
by aus ant on Apr 24, 2008 10:37 AM Permalink
Rajeev's credentials? He has the largest collection of KHAKI CHADDIS among the so-called journos in the US!
RE:Rajeev credentials
by Nirpinder Singh on Apr 24, 2008 09:34 AM Permalink
We are already in the World Stage by virtue of having a quarter of earthly humanity in our nation! We should be concerned about making ourselves presentable on the world stage. Rather than committing ourselves to buying expensive overseas technologies we should concentrate on developing our own manufacturing capabilities. Witness we have some very good naval shipyards yet we are paying outrageous amounts to Russia for retrofitting of an aircraft carrier! What could be a worse waste of money? We should just buy a dry dock big enought o hold the aircraft carrier and work on it ourselves. We have to get real. We will never be able to buy the respect of developed nations by purchasing their technology. If we develop technology ourselves then we will be respected.
