Topic started by critic (@ ss09.ny.us.ibm.com) on Sun Oct 8 11:30:36 .
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Jubilant was the nation when we attained the status of a nuclear power.. But was it a right move? Did we not compel Pak to attain nuclear status? Whom should we blame for commiting such a blunder? Considering the fact that Pak can never win India in a conventional warfare.. Isnt it logical that they are the ones that will supposedly use the weapon first if the situation arise?

Responses:

• From: Raja (@ proxy.pbc.adelphia.net) on: Tue Oct 10 15:09:16 EDT 2000
  
  I was one of those shocked when the atomic device was tested in POkhran.The fact that it was called Buddha smiles shook me badly. The poem that I wrote at that time is enclosed:-
  BUDDHA SMILES!!
  Mourn full morn it was,
  When the little prince,
  Took a stroll.
  Tears he has not seen,
  In his palace of joy-
  His father’s house.
  Wails he heard,
  From a mourn full crowd,
  That moved with,
  An action less man,
  Packed in an wooden box.
  Cried a beautiful one,
  With disheveled hair,
  And tear soaked dress,
  "Darling mine,
  Why this hurry,
  And who will be mine,
  To laugh and to cry,
  And get all the pleasures of the world."
  Buddha smiled,
  For knew he not,
  The ways of the world.
  Counters of time machine rolled.
  And then one fine morn,
  The apostle of ahimsa,
  Came in this blessed land.
  Took he a stroll.
  To wipe salty tears,
  Of his flock.
  Rose a man from the crowd,
  With a pistol in his hand.
  "Sorry", he said,
  "You have to die."
  And shot he at a closer range.
  Our only hope.
  The toothless one fell,
  With a cry on his lips,
  "Hare Ram, Pardon this man."
  But no tears in his eyes.
  Buddha smiled again,
  For he knew,
  That himsa is no reply,
  To the sublime Ahimsa.
  There was a thud,
  From the sandy dunes,
  After some more time.
  Implosion, they claimed,
  It was all for peace.
  This nation ours,
  Ruled by the apostle of peace,
  Sighed once more.
  The implosion of theirs,
  They knew,
  Could have killed millions,
  Of God's little ones.
  Buddha smiled once again,
  "This from the land,
  Where I was born".
  Years strolled fast,
  Implosion or explosion,
  Again we heard,
  In the same heavy sands,
  Of the far off place.
  Roared he who was at the top,
  "See what we have done,
  Our nation is at the top."
  The beggar sitting close,
  Put his hand in his pot,
  To see whether it was full.
  The peasant with his poison vial,
  Turned his gaze,
  To see whether good news has come.
  Tiny tots laboring hard,
  For a pittance of this and that,
  Rushed to see,
  Whether papa and mama came,
  With full of sweets and smile.
  All of them were shocked,
  To see that for long time to come,
  Tears was their only share,
  In spite of being at the top.
  Salty tears filled,
  From their forlorn eyes,
  The hole left after the thud.
  Buddha smiled again,
  "Top from where, pray".
  
  
• From: Amar Sinha (@ webcachew03b.cache.pol.co.uk) on: Tue Oct 10 20:01:18 EDT 2000
  
  Dear Raja,
  
  Whatever you do. Don't give up the day job to become a poet!! For our sakes more than your's !!!
  
  Only kidding :-) Keep up the good work
  
  
• From: Sugrutha (@ 1cust76.tnt5.new-brunswick3.nj.da.uu.net) on: Thu Oct 12 00:03:05 EDT 2000
  
  Pakistham anyway had a clandestine Nuclear programme aided and managed by the Chinese for a long time. With or without open declaration of their capability, which is all they did in the wake of Pokhran-2, they would not have shied from using it on India, if the need arose.
  
  I still have not unravelled the Indian intentions behind forcing the Pak hand by performing Pokhran-2. It was certainly much more than a BJP stunt.
  
  
• From: shiva (@ 203.94.234.66) on: Thu Oct 12 03:31:50 EDT 2000
  
  Pokhran was a blunder not because the bomb went off.The biggest blunder was the diplomatic fall-out where the bjp cabinet ministers linked the testing to kashmir.
  As of now,india has regained the initiative as pakistan blundered at kargil.
  
  
• From: Karthik (@ c998718-a.bvrtn1.or.home.com) on: Thu Oct 12 21:02:17 EDT 2000
  
  I guess that they wanted to bring out pakistan's clandestinely obtained capability to the world's attention, which i think they succeeded. They also gambled on burgeoning indian middle class market to western interests so they would have minimal impact on sanctions. Pakistan, by their calculations, cannot survive sanctions but India would. These calculations are quite right. But after the blast diplomacy was very bad.
  
  
• From: Test (@ stasgaonkar.princecon.com) on: Wed Oct 17 07:49:24
  
  you guys should understand that this is kaliyug and not Buddha times. If you are not strong you will be scr..ed in and out.
  
  Pak being such week country is trying to f... us.
  
  

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