Pramit Pal Chaudhuri explains in Hindustan Times:
Don’t expect nuclear reactors to drop out of the sky the day after the Indo-US nuclear agreement is completed. Don’t expect to get a job in a brand-new silicon chip factory the week after. On the other hand, don’t presume the Star-Spangled Banner will become part of the Republic Day parade. Or that India will wake up to find itself bereft of its nuclear deterrent.
To grasp why the deal is important, it helps to ask a simple question. Why does Prime Minister Manmohan Singh believe the nuclear deal is so crucial to the country’s future? Singh is uninterested in symbolic prizes for India. He barely lifted a finger to get India a permanent UN seat. “If our economy grows by 10 per cent for 10 years, we will get the seat automatically,” he says. Singh told China’s Hu Jintao he found G-8 summits a waste of time.
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