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Laughing Buddha- Pravin Gadhvi - Coggle Diagram
Laughing Buddha- Pravin Gadhvi
The poem is centered around India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18th May 1974.
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1974 and 1998
: India's steps towards becoming a nation with nuclear power
The operation, since it was being conducted on the occasion of Buddha Purnima (the birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha) was codenamed Smiling Buddha.
It was the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The test led to the formation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to control nuclear proliferation. After the test, India carried out one other subsequent nuclear test named Pokhran-II in 1998.
As per the United States military intelligence, the operation was named Happy Krishna. The Indian Ministry of External affairs described the test as a "peaceful nuclear explosion".
What does Buddha's laughter in Gadhvi's poem imply?
What do the following lines of the poem refer to: "There was laughter on his lips and tears in his eyes. He was dumb that day."
The theory of laughter by Henri Bergson:
"What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy?
How should we interpret the lines: "What a proper time! What an auspicious day!"