What a kick it is!!

One was surprised to see the American negotiators slowdown on their demands when India did not relent on some key issues relating to the Non-proliferation treaty and nuclear trade sometime around last year.

Only to discover today from Mr. Varadarajan's piece in The Hindu, the true side of their diplomacy. Complacency has hurt us bad and putting us back in the same old stage mandating us to hard negotiations in the near future, a pressure tactic, possibly, to extract more from us.

While Mr. Varadarajan's point that America has resorted to this latest tactic of having the G-8 countries approve of a recommendation banning trade of "enrichment and reprocessing items (ENR) to countries which have not signed NPT, including India", only to protect the interests of American companies that would lose out, due to pricing issues, to some of its g-8 counterparts, I am still wondering how could such an important issue have escaped the attention of Indian leaders and bureaucrats when being debated/negotiated amongst the G-8 nations.

Clearly this is not something that would erupt at random at an international conferences of the kind of the G-8 summit.

I am eagerly waiting to see India's response.