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...late evening outside the Taj Mahal hotel on Delhi's Mansingh Road, and the row of cars lining up for security checks at the entrance is fast lengthening into a small traffic jam. Coming just as the wedding and party season was starting up, the brutal Mumbai attacks last month (which devastated a more famous Taj Mahal hotel in that city) have led to heightened security measures, which are proving to be an enormous inconvenience for high society. Cars carrying designer-clad, bejeweled guests have to stop to let security guards peek under the hood and into the back compartment...
...still dismayed that the deal does not dissuade India strongly enough from testing another nuclear devise. Yet, even among the deal's supporters, the clear sense of triumph is accompanied by questions. "The 123 Agreement is the best deal we could have had with the U.S.," says Lalit Mansingh, a former ambassador of India to Washington, adding that a recent statement by President George W. Bush has raised concerns over whether some provisions of critical importance to India - particularly those pertaining to fuel assurances - are legally binding or are merely "political commitments." Says Mansingh, "We will have to wait...
...forcing its way into the nuclear club confirms its great-nation status and makes the rest of the world, especially the U.S., pay it the attention it deserves. "Indian politicians feel they're not being listened to in the world because we don't have the Bomb," says Surjit Mansingh, a disarmament professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They follow Mao's advice that a loud fart is better than a long lecture." Even though he was "bitterly disappointed," the ever empathetic Clinton suggested that India may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem because...
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