Re: Kanak Mani Dixit's Southasia Beat ('India gets US nod on nukes', #289) What about your Chinese communist buddies up north? They have been proliferating nukes and missiles to Pakistanis North Koreans, Libyans, Iranians. For a while they were even providing weapons to the Taliban. It is wonderful to put on your socialist/commie sunglasses and the infamous Mao suit and watch as the Han Chinese are slowly and surely destroying every emblance of Tibetan Buddhist culture. If the Pakis didn't receive nukes and missiles from the Chinese they would be sitting on their tails concentrating on uplifting their people instead of instead of sending jihadis by the boatloads into India.

Jim Palmer,
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. Kanak Mani Dixit asks 'Who are you going to use those nuclear-tipped missiles against? Do you really need them to become a world power and would you not become a better world power when your children are better fed?' India wants to feed her children and that is all this nuclear deal is about. This deal will allow India to generate the much needed energy to grow at double digits and take its masses out of poverty by 2020.

Jayasaal Thuvassery,
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. Has anyone told Kanak Mani Dixit that he is a paranoid India-basher? All his articles smack of a pre-determined conclusion of finding fault with India, no matter what the issue and context is. He should know that you can talk about facts and anlayse them without bringing in rhetoric and emotion and, worse, bias. I don't think he can strut about as a journalist if you carry such deep-seated prejudice. If India is such a bad country, why do Nepalis make a beeline for this place, seek employment and live here? Why don't you issue an advisory to all Nepalis to stay away from India?

Anup Varma,
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. I have never been able to understand why we in India are so proud to lead the pack of poor (NAM) nations. I have never been able to understand why we take such pride in the concept of ahmisa and Gandhi and Tagore or appoint ourselves as the moral guardians of the whole world. Because we seem to be very violent people. Our gods are depicted with weapons...our whole mythology and philosophy is violent. To say that elite in India wanted nuclear weapons to get rid of inferiority complex is trivialising it.

N Ramachandran,
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