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<b>The Pokhran brotherhood and 1,000 moons</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam still has fond memories of the Pokhran II days and of the project’s fellow architect, A.B. Vajpayee.

On January 14, Kalam had attended a function to mark Vajpayee's witnessing 1,000 full moons in his life. Two days later, Kalam wrote to Vajpayee, conveying some of his “ideas that came to mind during the function”.

Referring to his days as the scientific adviser to the defence minister and as the principal scientific adviser to the government, Kalam wrote: “Whenever I came to you, you used to ask me aapka Pokhran kaisa hai. (And) I used to say Pokhran bahut khoobsurat hai.”
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kalam wrote that on watching Vajpayee celebrate his 1,000th full moon, he was reminded of Lord Krishna’s Vishwaroopa Darshan, witnessing which, Arjuna had exclaimed: “Oh! Kesava, I see in you light of a thousand suns.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->