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I must confess to be rather serenly unsurprised by the Wikileaks pertaining to India.

This for the reason that for the most part in everything we have seen revealed thus far, the US embassy cables emphatically confirm all the main coordinates of  the critique that the Indian Left has been voicing through the life of the two UPA regimes (2004 to date).  Be it the shifts in India’s foreign policy, or defence and security related issues, or the broad preferences of economic doctrine,  at every point the criticisms voiced by the Left can be now seen to have been not Pavlovian reflexes shorn of content but indeed borne out everywhere as facts.  And official denials just pathetic and disingenuous refusals of the truth.

The Iran vote in the IAEA in September, 2005, the plethora of Defence-related purchase  and the many US dictated stipulations accompanying such purchase, or the close embrace of the US and Israeli security agencies and apparatuses, the sharing of Intelligence and access given to  spooky outfits to innermost Indian  sanctorums, or Cabinet reshuffles (including the shameful ouster of Mani Shankar Aiyar from the Petroleum ministry and his substitution by the US- corporate friendly Murli Deoria) effected by Manmohan Singh, the Wikileaks lay out a scenario of capitulation that the Left has been repeatedly  underscoring.

Here is what the cables gloss on some of these episodes:

on the Iran vote:  “the most important signal so far of the UPA’s commitment to building a stronger US-India relationship”;

same with respect to coordinating policy towards Nepal, Srilanka, Bangladesh;

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