What is most surprising is the scale of the administration's efforts in selling the deal to Congress. The administration's active lobbying for the deal is quite unprecedented.

It was a watershed for Indian diplomacy and showed the maturity and confidence with which we negotiated with the world's only superpower.

With the nuclear deal, proliferation is out of the way. And for a change, the US is playing fair in its dealings with both India and Pakistan.

There is now no reason for the US and India not to trust each other.

It means access to technology and commerce that has been long been denied to India.

Subsidies were instituted that are now being used to pay telephone bills. That strikes me as something that Congress certainly did not have in mind when it passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.