Never felt this way before but reading and seeing a lot of items with reference to india being a poor country. people really like to complain about isro and that india is a land of poor.
Isro is a congregation of scientists with highly regarded skills and training that have been put together with common purpose and objectives from the same demographics that people point out is predominantly poor.
Having such a congregation in india allows the poor to know they can through hard work archive anything in this wonderful nation. Having such a congregation allows people to focus on education and educating the youth to join such institutions. In fact I add other institutions like ias, ifs, even raw to this.
The past and current great leaders and luminaries of the isro and their backgrounds before joining isro was defiantly not of (only) affluence. The isro recognises people with skills and knowledge. Isro wants people to do well irrespective of their background. Look at the pride in people when they hear the names of the scientists that were permitted to speak by the isro chairman and each one said "I would like to congratulate the team". - brilliant.
India having poor is much more different topic and unrelated to isro. India has enough scams, corruption and ineffective policies that can feed them and change their lives. Some say it's better to keep people poor because it's easier to administer them. Some say we need more people like those in isro to be in politics.
But that takes away from the point and the Mars mission and that is - Through hard work and dedication anyone can achieve their dreams be it poor be it rich. And the [x] million of poor in india I know what they were thinking today if and when they saw those beautiful flames light up the pslv c25 ... Aim high anything is possible in our great nation that archived this on its own.
ISRO Job well done. Congratulations. Next bang that GSLV in shape the nation is with you.
ive liked your post
you have brought up at least one v important point which ive hardly heard elsewhere
that the poor can have something to aspire to - prime example -
our past very popular president Abdul kalam -
who started life as a very poor news paper delivery lad -
and look what his tenacity contributed , not only
to himself , community but also nation !
secondly we need to ask all those mainly European hypocrites
is there no unemployment in euriope ?
are there no families losing homes?
are there no old folks sleeping at night in the extreme cold in the outdoors ?
are there absolutely no poor in their countries ?
we all know the answers to those many questions
europe is having massive unemployment !!
especially those graduating from universities and polytechnics
but also massiive general unemployment
it is easily seen on a daily basis
then why is the euro space agency still in existence
then they should disband their space research
until all their poor are taken care of !
by their very own "logic"
besides that it is Indian taxpayer
who shall determine where their tax payments shall go -
not foreigners
and if like the brits , they want to withhold their "aid" -
( where they were to give 200 million to india and in return expected
a 10 BILLION defence contract in their favour - and got annoyed
when it didnt go to them )
that is their idea of "aid " ??
- so i say to them - you decide what you do with your money
and we decide what we do with ours
on another issue ,
besides GSLV being very important , i now upon having had opportunity to reflect
i now think that it was very SHREWD of isro chief radhakrishnan and teams
to cash in on teh mars opportunity, besides the gslv launch in the same time frame
hope the scientists can stand up to the stress
and i belive they can
it truly will be a very great jai hind
if they also successed with gslv
(graivty cost 100 million$)
