An 'Untouchable' Leader for India? http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828755,00.html By JYOTI THOTTAM/NEW DELHI Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) Chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati addresses the media after a meeting with third front and left party leaders in New Delhi on July 20, 2008. Prakash Singh / AFP / Getty India on Friday took another step closer to completing a civilian nuclear-energy agreement with the United States, as the International Atomic Energy Agency approved the controversial deal. The nuclear deal, if finalized this fall, will be the most significant foreign policy achievement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's four years in office. But he won't be the only one crowing. The real winner in the deal, according to Indian political observers, is the earthy, shrewd, audacious Indian politician...
[read full story]