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Sunday, May 17, 1998

	"I deliberately avoided playing the China card, it is wrong diplomacy": Gujral Former Prime Minister I.K. Gujral who tried to redefine India's relationship with its neighbours spoke to Neerja Chowdhury about the nuclear tests, their implications and what they mean for future diplomacy.		Fathering the big bang It didn't take long to establish the paternity of last week's stunning series of five nuclear explosions in the sandy wastes of Rajasthan. Quiet, bespectacled 61-year-old Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram has been christened the Father of `Pokharan II' by the Indian nuclear fraternity. Just ten days before the blasts, Chidambaram was playing father of the bride at his daughter's wedding.
	Magic Mushrooms After a radioactive week, during which some of us got to celebrate Diwali on Buddha Purnima, here are a few stray thoughts and general observations that rise like a mushroom cloud from the sands of Pokharan....		Inside Track Veil of Secrecy -- Even the CIA could not penetrate the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Our nuclear scientists have always maintained a rigid code of secrecy which is doubly commendable in a nation where just about everyone else -- from generals to senior bureaucrats and politicians -- is unable to keep a confidence.