Anti - Convention

Sometimes i just love being an Indian, this is one of those.India , it seems, is used to screwing up convention, let me explain.India was the nation to rebel against colonialism and was responsible for wiping it out, so that's one.Before the NPT, there was the CTBT, India didn't sign it, and we didn't sign NPT either and still we managed to make them both look ridiculous.

India received sanctions after the 1998 blasts inspite of not being a signatory of the NPT, in one stroke we had made the treaty look meaningless.The biggest hit we took after that was the ban on importing nuclear fuel, we do have nuclear resources but they are enough only for civilian purposes not for making bombs and ,as anyone would guess, its more fun making bombs then energy on slow reactors.

Today we signed a "historic" treaty with the US, again the most important clause is the one which allows us to import nuclear fuel for "perpetuity" till we keep out 14 civilian nuclear reactors under safeguards.But, we haven't signed the NPT so where will the safeguards come from..?

In the NPT there are the nuclear powers and theres everyone else, and now, thanks to Mr Bush, India will form a 3rd category for which the safeguards haven't been worked out, so well there goes the NPT.I understand the concern of the Left/SP etc about the foreign policies of the US, but more than logical its political, the Left have to oppose the US, the SP , which doesn't have any respect of its own has to borrow some from their beloved Left.They argue about the safeguards of not being in our national interest, and of course Mr Singh is the "weakest" PM ever, as per Mr Advani so he usually bends all ways.The point that they have forgotten is that India doesn't have to put its defence reactors under the IAEA scanner, yes by virtue of not being a nuclear nation under the NPT we won't be allowed to shift our reactors from one category to another, but that doesn't take anything away, our defence reactors are covered and we can import fuel to continue our research and make more bombs.The weakest PM ever has just managed to pull out possibly the strongest deal ever.

Lets think that the US Congress doesn't pass the bill, will it be a complete failure, No.This deal is an indication that America wants a stronger India, for whatever purposes that might be.We gatecrashed the Colonialism party and now we are doing the same to proliferation.Forget the sports allocation in the Union Budget 05-06, lets smile, we'r Indian.