India's Space Program

Today India is well known for information technology and services. But there is another space where india haas done spectacular job. and that is SPACE and ROCKET SCIENCE. In space science india is knocking the doors of elite club of USA, Russia,France,Japan and China. It is simple incredible when around 300 million people have average income of 1$ per day. 

                         India's space program started around 1960 when it launched it's first sounding rocket on nov 21 from terls. After that india never stopped in this area. India has whopping 11 national communication satallites in an orbit at present which is highest for any country in asia-pacific region.It's remote sensing capabilities are also sensational. It has 7 indian made remote sensing satellite again highest for any country in civilian domain. It's remote sensing and communication satellites are used for disaster warning, wheather pictures and feeds for 552 television channels and 164 radio transmission.

                          Going back in the initial days of india's space programme, India launched it's first space satellite,Aryabhatta, in April,1975. Few years after that in 1984, Rakesh sharma became the first india to go in space. He went with two other russian cosmonaut and stayed in USSR's space station salyut-7 for seven days. He basically took pictures of northern india finding the possibilities of hydroelctric power plant in Himalaya regions.

                        Another remarkable achievement in space is foundation of INSAT(india national satallite technology). It was established by ISRO,Department of telecommunication,All india radio and doordarshan in 1983. 

                      India currently is developing indegenous GSLV (geo-syncronous stallite launch vehicle). So that it does not depend upon foreign launch vehicles for geo-synchronous satellite. 

Currenly used GSLV uses russian cryigeic engine. But for launch in 2009 it will use india made engine.

                   

Democracy or family rule or in turn dictatorship in INDIA?

India is the largest democracy in this world with lots of geographical and religious diversities. It has around 18 major languages and 1600 local dialects. With so much diversity, our ancient great leaders wanted us to be great democratic country and tried to put an example of brotherhood in front of whole world. But looking at today's condition, have we really achieved that?

                          I will say we are no more democratic country even. Democracy does not mean that every five year we just go for casting our votes and reelect those who were already their in the power for a long time and sitting idle with out doing anything. I am not specifically pointing towards congress for current lok sabha election. I am talking in general what has been happening in our country from the time of independence. 

                         Starting with Pundit Nehru our first prime minister of India after him his family has become the single largest party in India and ruling India like family business. If one person dies his or her successor weather it is her/his son or daughter or any distant relative becomes next minister. Had we ever thought that sons and daughter of these great personalities were equally capable as their ancestor. What i feel is not. I think people of India cast their vote in sentiments rather than rationally. And these minister take advantage of that. Whenever election comes they play down politics and fool around people emotionally. take an example of Agatha Sangama, youngest minster in current cabinet. She is the daughter of former speaker P K Sangama. When she came to  take oath she was looking all around nervously. She must be thanking GOD to make her daughter of a prominent person. It is not her leadership and social work so that people recognize her and cast their vote for her it is only because of her dad. 

                     Same is the case with dayanidhi maran nephew of southern satrap Karunanidhi. Their are ten's of cases in Indian politics you will find where either in center or in state dynastic politics is going on. Next is the case of akhilash yadav, great son of mulayam singh yadav former CM of much talked state UP. Everybody knows that in his election manifesto SP was against English medium education western cultures. But this great son of mulayam sing yadav is himself an alumni of oxford. He also joined,like others, politics like a family business and the irony is that our India public allows them to sit on our head. This is nothing but a dictatorship not on the whole country but at least in their own region.

Thanks,

Abhish