Indo US relation under Obama need not be speculated so much...

A lot is being speculated about the Indo US relationship in future after Obama taking over. Though no certain trend can be seen,but I personally think we need not worry so much considering that many in the the political and bureaucratic circles feel that the relationship under Bush was better and Obama may not give India the same importance. Firstly Obama has a huge task cut out in front of him to bring back the US economy on track and bring it out of this mess. Second the issue of Outsourcing haunting many in India Inc. here again I think they are worrying more than they should considering that companies won't wind up overnite and leave as there are many contracts for future for 5 yrs and more and it would still work out cheaper for the Multinational cos to outsource stuff to India even if they are taxed more for outsourcing.

Now coming to the main issue the future relation between the two countries if we go back to the time since JFK was Prez it was always the Democrats when in power who kinda acknowledged India and maintained some diplomatic relations, where u had Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton coming to India after the hostile relationship between both the countries when Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior who were all mind you Republicans were in power and not to forget Nixon sending the Seventh fleet to the Indian Ocean where India was to almost capture Lahore in the 71 war and we had to retreat. Agreed even under Democrats rule Clinton imposing sanctions on India after conducting Pokhran tests and signing of CTBT which India refused, it was under Clinton's regime where we had plenty of Indians going to the US either to study or work as more doors were opened. Agreed, inspite of all this we still didn't have the best of relations with the US then till Bush came and the signing of the nuke deal gave many the impression that this was the best period of relations between both the nations. If we look at the times then and the times today things have changed a lot in the world right from issues like terrorism to economic and political changes. Looking at the circumstances today USA can't afford to ignore India either politically or economically since India has gained prominent significance along with China in the last decade and in times of this crisis where the economies have been effected globally both India and US can't afford to strain diplomatic ties with each other and it looks unlikely that the relations would be strained.

All in all I think the media is wasting time trying to speculate more than necessary with the half baked knowledge they have and aint looking at it from a logical view. Poor guys maybe need more TRP's.... :-)