Ram's Cafe

Of late, there's been a lot of aggressive writing in support of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. Here's an interesting article:
"Indo-U.S. space cooperation adrift".
The author questions:
If the U.S. is unwilling to relax controls in the arena of space technology, where ISRO stands to gain in commercial terms, why should India yield on the nuclear front?

Why all this fuss, especially in the Indian Express? Why run down our scientists and engineers who have toiled all these years to develop something under severe international restrictions? I don't know how many of these writers have worked on any technology development project. If you really want to target mediocrity, you should start with the Indian Railways (where the British gave us a headstart of about 150 years) and the Indian telecom industry. I've always been an avid reader of Indian Express, but lately I'm starting to see a pattern there that makes me uncomfortable. We need American technology, and fuel, all right, but how many technologies have we developed in recent times that benefitted from American input directly? Why make so much fuss then? Do you think the US would be offering this nuclear deal to India if their business interests are not involved?