Apparently, not all of India’s thrilled:

MUMBAI, India, March 2 — For the second day in a row, raucous protests against President Bush’s visit erupted across India on Thursday, with the most militant here in the nation’s commercial capital.

As Mr. Bush had lunch with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the capital, New Delhi, tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in Azad Maidan, a field here made famous by Gandhi’s civil disobedience protests against British rule.

The current protest, called by Muslim organizations and leftist political parties, was largely peaceful, but bristling with an anti-American rage that is not often displayed in India.

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Crowd estimates varied from 250,000 to 700,000, according to the city police and a protest organizer — or from 10 percent to 25 percent of the Muslim population of Mumbai (also known as Bombay).

Same source, different story:

Shops in the city’s predominately Muslim Charminar quarter were closed in protest of the president’s visit, the Associated Press reported. Several hundred communist and Muslim demonstrators chanted “Bush go home” and carried posters of Osama bin Laden.

Mr. Bush returned to New Delhi later in the day to deliver an outdoor evening speech at the city’s Purana Qila, a 16th century fort built by the Afghan conqueror Sher Sha Suri. In the speech, billed as the major address of Mr. Bush’s trip to India, Mr. Bush spoke of the “natural partnership” between the United States and India, including the major nuclear pact that he and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India announced in New Delhi on Thursday.

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Purana Qila, huh? Wonder if Wikipedia can give us some background:

Literally translated, Purana Qila means “Old Fort”.

Recent archaeological excavations have exposed evidences such as pottery which throws a new light on the existence of the city of Indraprastha at this place in Delhi, as mentioned in the great epic of Mahabharata. The fort itself is believed to have belonged to the Pandavas. Sher Shah Suri renovated it in 1545. However, he soon lost it to the Mughal emperor Humayun, who made good use of the octagonal red sandstone tower known as Sher Mandal as his library and observatory.

Today it houses the Delhi Zoo and a boat club.

So with hundreds of thousands of protestors demonstrating against Bush in its major cities, he veers from the popular venues and even government forums to deliver his major address at a boat club and zoo.

Over at the monkey cage, a furious debate was underway after a lecture by Chimp Darwin, as his peers rejected the notion that they could be descended from someone like Curious George.

Meanwhile, analysts back home nitpicked Bush’s main accomplishment on his trip to India:

India, the negotiators agreed, will be able not only to retain its nuclear arms program but to keep a third of its reactors under military control, outside international inspection, including two so-called fast-breeder reactors that could produce fuel for weapons.

The accord would also allow India to build future breeder reactors and keep them outside international inspections. A fast-breeder reactor takes spent nuclear fuel and processes it for reuse as fuel or weapons. American officials negotiating with India over the last several months failed to get India to put its current and future breeder reactors under civilian control. But the accord would allow India to buy equipment and materials for only those new reactors that are to be used for civilian purposes.

India’s refusal to put all its breeder reactors under civilian control was seen in New Delhi as a matter of pride and sovereignty. Mr. Singh, who reiterated the need for India’s autonomy in nuclear matters, faces pressure from his governing coalition, which includes the Communist Party and other anti-American elements.

India’s nuclear program has previously mixed civilian and military purposes. But the accord announced in New Delhi would place 14 of India’s 22 nuclear reactors under civilian inspection regimes by 2014. The phase-in and the possibility that breeder reactors may never come under such a regime have drawn fire from critics.

“This deal not only lets India amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants, it looks like we made no effort to try to curtail them,” said George Perkovich, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “This is Santa Claus negotiating. The goal seems to have been to give away as much as possible.”

I don’t think Chimp Darwin’s theories will prevail, nor those of the school of Intelligent Design.