This is Modi's election. And in that, this election is a battle for Indians to wrestle back their identities that have been assaulted and demonized. In order to facilitate colonial structures that perpetuate slavery. This Indian election is an exercise in freedom.
The Case against Patanjali by Indian Medical Association and the tone of Judiciary is alarming. We need to look into its historical and global context to fully grasp its ramification.
Why do seemingly normal people commit atrocities and genocides? More importantly, why do millions other go along with these crimes as participants? We explore the Perpetration-Induced Trauma and its impact on the societies.
There has been a lot of sound and fury over the role of the omnipresent and omniscient Nehru who, Congress keeps reminding everyone, was the father of anything science.
The truth however is very different.
Let us look at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and our space program.
The Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was set up by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai to create an indigenous space program. This committee was, at that time, part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. TIFR was founded on the insistence of Dr. Homi Bhabha, who wrote to Sir Dorabji Tata Trust asking for financial assistance. JRD Tata supported Dr. Homi Bhabha’s idea and TIFR was set up on 1 June 1945. Before independence. When Nehru was NOT making any decisions for India. The institute was initially within the campus of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
One may be reminded that the origin of Indian Institute of Science can be traced to the conversation between Swami Vivekananda and Jamsetji Tata on the ship they took to US in 1893, where the Swami made this suggestion for starting a research institute for fundamental science research in India.
So coming back to Chacha Nehru and Space – well, it so happens – as the amazing True Indology shares – that “Nehru explicitly rejected the request of TIFR founder Homi Bhabha for funding research in the Five Year Plan”! Nehru had stalled funding for the space program!
If at all, Nehru did not want to fund the space program further.
The progress and the funding of this work was via Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and not the government of India.
Initially, Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in Thiruvananthapuram for upper atmospheric research. It was in 1969, that INCOSPAR became Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Nehru died in 1964.
So, when Nehru did not start INCOSPAR or ISRO, deliberately and consciously impacted its funding, and had very little input into the overall Indian Institute of Science operations, how did Nehru become responsible for the Indian space program?
Every Sunday AM (US Time)/ PM (India time), we send out a weekly detailed newsletter. We also share other insightful notes during the week. Its free. Do sign up and share with friends!