Nuclear deal: What is it all about? What is hyde act?

Many of us dont know whats the actual deal about.
But recently there were few articles on this exact topic in "The Hindu".
I would like to draw your attention to one of the simplest(simply worded) of them.

I have brought out the significant points of the article, here.

"Judge the nuclear deal on facts, not convictions"

1) Hyde act
----a) If India performs the nuclear test, then the deal is over
----b) The quantity of Nuclear fuel supply to india is restricted to "Normal Operating Conditions" of all our nuclear reactors
---c) Strongly opposes India building its own reserve supplies, ie., India must be entirely dependent on fuel supply by USA
---d) Even if India do build its own reserve, it should not be enough to conduct a nuclear test, if US terminates the deal
---e) India must give a "specific future date" after which India will not produce "Weapon Grade Plutonium" even from our own unsafegaurded reactors.
---f) India must agree to follow "Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty" (FMCT)
---g) Furthermore, US will call for stricter guidelines for India with NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
---h) Also, India must have a foreign policy in concordant with US govt. This means, India has to even apply sanctions to Iran.

2) 123 agreement
---a) Full nuclear co-operation for Indian Civil Nuclear Program; Covers entire cycle from making uranium fuel to reprocessing spent fuel to extract plutonium.
---b) US does not supply technology and technical facilities; The 3 main steps are "uranium enrichment", "heavy water production" and "reprocessing"
---c) In the "reprocessing" step, we have to use our own technology and facilities only.
---d) we must provide all detailed drawings and other technical documentation, data, calculations, and so on to the International Atomic Energy Agency to review and clear.
---e) India has to accept a whole range of “arrangements and procedures” stipulated by the U.S. to run our own national plant
---f) India must sign another agreement under section 131 of US.Atomic Energy Act.
---g) There is no arbitration clause; ie., US or India can ditch the deal any point they like.

3) To operationalize the deal
---a) The reprocessing plant is estimated to cost us Rs 10,000 crores

There is a beautiful analysis in this article as to how these points affect.
There are other 2 articles which goes into depth of the deal too.

The 3 articles in The Hindu recently are
1) Parsing the India-specific safeguards agreement news analysis: On July 12th 2008 http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/12/stories/2008071254991000.htm
2) Does the IAEA agreement hide us from the Hyde Act?: On July 14th 2008 http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/14/stories/2008071455431000.htm
3)Judge the nuclear deal on facts, not convictions : On July 15th 2008
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/15/stories/2008071555200900.htm