#VIKRAMSARABHAI – The Scientist Who Dreamt Of #Atmanirbharata In Space Research.
On his Punyasmaran Divas, 4 incidents which is not known to many. 1) It was late 1960s, the European Union’s Satellites failed one after another in Austalia’s launch station and they decided to stop
further launches.
To avoid losses they decided to sell unused “Satellite Telemetry and Tracking” devices and placed ad in prominent journals and magazines.
Vikram Sarabhai read this advertisement and called up Arvamudan, a scientist who working at Tumba and called him to Bombay.
In Bombay, Sarabhai met Aravamudan and another scientist H G S Murthy asked them to proceed to Australia.
The 2 scientists went to RBI and asked for Blank DD, the RBI officer got angry & sent these 2 scientists out, the 2 scientists called up Sarabhai, he after listening to them
asked them to stay at RBI for few more minutes.
Within no time, the person who kicked them out came running towards them, called them in, within minutes gave the scientists an empty demand draft.
The magic Sarabhai did was, calling up Finance Minister Y B Chavan.
What happened
later was historic, Bharat purchased it after much bargaining and these devices were used to establish Satellite Launching Centre at ShriHarikota. 2) Prof. Yashpal, a close associate of Sarabhai cherishes an incident.
Vikram Sarabhai wished for Indigenous Communication Satellite
and sent Mr. Chitnis to United States for training from Hyus Aircraft, meanwhile, in Bharat, Sarabhai prepared a blue print to help Farmers called “KRISHI DARSHAN” and to explain the uses of Communication Satellite for the then PM Indira Gandhi.
Note that, at that time neither
we had Satellite nor a Tele Vision & Indira asked the same, Sarabhai replied “I have friends in America and they will help me”.
The US had launched a satellite for TV Broadcast and Vikram Sarabhai convinced his Scientist friends to deviate the satellite way while passing over
India..
The Krishi Darshan was telecasted in and around 80 Villages of Delhi and PM Indira Gandhi was a witness to that incredible feat. 3) The first student to receive PhD under Vikram Sarabhai’s guidance was former ISRO Chief Prof U R Rao, who in his memoirs notes...VSNL was
established for long distance and international communications & it was under Central Govt’s authority, in 1967 at Ahmedabad, Sarabhai and team had successfully built a station for telecommunication but VSNL decided to import new devices.
As soon as Sarabhai heard this, he
directly approached Indira Gandhi & met Principal Secretary P N Haksar & asked him in a raised voice “Who Is Running This Country”? We are thriving for Swadeshi and why does VSNL wants to import, who are giving those orders?
Haskar took Sarabhai to Indira and later matter ended
amicably with station coming near Poona in 1970. 4) U R Rao in his memoir recollected another incident..
It was April 1971, Sarabhai asked Rao to come to Delhi, Soviet Union had decided to support India in its Space Mission and this was conveyed to PM by Russian Ambassador.
At Sarabhai’s office, Vikram Rao & Russian Ambassador discussed India’s space programme and after learning China’s recently launched satellite weighed 190 kilos, insisted that India must launch heavier satellite than China and Russia was willing to support them including
providing Soviet Launch Pad.
Sarabhai sent a team to Moscow under U R Rao’s leadership and India launched 360 Kilo ARYABHATA Satellite.
Unfortunately, Dr Vikram Sarabhai passed away a year before the launch, Sarabhai spent his final days at Tumba. On the fateful day 30-12-1971
Sarabhai had a guest, Railway Minister Kengal Hanumantaiah who was on an official visit.
Sarabhai wanted a railway line for the benefit of Scientists and workers and after the meet, he spent rest of the day with colleagues and in meeting till late night.
And the next day, he didn’t get up, but had joined the space which he loved the most.
Whereas that Gandhi who was responsible for partition is world famous, there was another Gandhi who faded into oblivion after bringing Junagadh to Bharath.
#SamaldasGandhi was the son of Laxmidas/Kalidas Karamchand Gandhi, elder brother of MK Gandhi, Samaldas was a close
follower of his uncle, Mohandas.
He was initially part of Gujarati evening news paper Janmabhoomi. Due to some differences he left Janmabhoomi and started new news paper named "Vande Mataram".
When the Nawab of Junagadh acceded his state to Pakistan in 1947, Samaldas headed a
government-in-exile, "Aarzi Hukumat" or "Temporary Government" created by citizens of Junagadh with Rajkot as its capital to reflect the wishes of its majority population who wished the state to become part of India instead.
Samaldas was invited by Nawab’s Dewan Sir Shah Nawaz
#Raghuveera – The distinguished scholar, Constituent Assembly member and Bharatiya Jana Sangh president who has been forgotten.
Congress, OK. Even BJP Forgetting Him?
Our tragedy is that successive governments denying Bharatiyas from knowing about people whose contribution was
ENORMOUS but erased so that there's only ONE FAMILY left to worship.
At a remarkably young age, he acquired two doctorates, one of them from Leiden. He made his mark as a Sanskrit don, but by that time, he had acquired proficiency in nine Indian and seven European languages.
His proficiency was such that he could not just read and write, but also conduct full-fledged lectures and orations.
One of his many monumental contributions was the collection of ancient Indian Sanskrit texts from different parts of the world — Mongolia, China, Malaysia and
#HisExcellency K M Munshi (GhanshyamVyas) was born on this day in 1887 at Ahmadabad.
K M Munshi was an exceptional student and during his Bachelor Studies he was
tutored by Sri Aurobindo and who became an inspiration for him to indulge in freedom struggle.
K M Munshi involved himself with Revolutionaries and than joined Moderates group on the call of M K Gandhi, in-between he got arrested many a times.
As the demand for Pakistan
gathered momentum, he gave up non-violence and supported the idea of a civil war to compel the Muslims to give up their demand. He believed that the future of Hindus and Muslims lay in unity in an “#AkhandBharath”. He left Congress in 1941 due to dissents with Congress, but was
ಸಂದ್ಯೆಯು ಬಂದಾಗ ಆಗಸ ಅಂದಾ
ಆ ಉಷೆ ನಗುವಾಗ ಲೋಕವೆ ಚಂದಾ
ಸರಿಗ ಸರಿಗ ಮಮ ಗಾಗ ಮಾಮ ಪದ
ಮಪದದ ಮಪದನಿ ಮಾಮ ಪಾಪ ದದ
ಪದನಿನಿ ಪದನಿ ಸಾಸನಿನಿ ನಿಸನಿ
ಸರಿಗ ಸರಿಗ ಸನಿ ದಾದ ಮಾಮ ಗಗಸ
ಸಂದ್ಯೆಯು ಬಂದಾಗ ಆಗಸ ಅಂದಾ
ಆ ಉಷೆ ನಗುವಾಗ ಲೋಕವೆ ಚಂದಾ
ಬಳುಕುವ ಲತೆಯಿಂದಾ ಅರಳಿದ ಹೂವಿಂದ ಆ ಸುಮ
ಚೆಲ್ಲುವ ಪರಿಮಳದಿಂದಾ
ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲು ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವೇ
ಹರಿಯುವ ನೀರಲಿ ಕಲ ಕಲರವವೂ
ಕೋಗಿಲೆ ಕೊರಳಿನ ಸುಮಧುರ ಸ್ವರವೂ
ಹರಿಯುವ ನೀರಲಿ ಕಲ ಕಲರವವೂ
ಕೋಗಿಲೆ ಕೊರಳಿನ ಸುಮಧುರ ಸ್ವರವೂ
ಭ್ರಮರದ ಝೇಂಕಾರ ಮುನಿಗಳ ಓಂಕಾರ
ಈ ಜಗ ತುಂಬಿದೆ ಮಾಧುರ್ಯದಿಂದಾ
ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲು ಸಂಗೀತವೇ
ಸಂಗೀತ ಎಂದಿಗು ಸುರಗಂಗೆಯಂತೆ
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ಬಿಸಿಲಲಿ ತಂಗಾಳಿ ಹೊಸ ಜೀವ ತಂದಂತೆ
On #Christmas, introducing few Jesus's flock who harmed Bharat in unpardonable ways.
Before that, a brief preface.
WE ARE STILL STUDYING WHAT CHURCH WANTED US TO IN 18TH CENTURY.
A text book claimed “The Advent of Europeans brought Light & Civilisation to India”.
I don’t think there’s any other country in this planet which has brutally stabbed its own glorious past like we Indians have done.
Century after Century, Church (Church of England, Scotland, France and Portugal) has spent Billions on India to extract Multi Billions from Donors.
How?
On one hand, they showed Little Existing Sati as India Burning, they showed Indians are Poor, they showed Indians push their Daughters to Prostitution, they showed Indians are always suffering from diseases without cure, they showed Indians as illiterate and the ignorant
TEACHER is a generic word we have imported from the British.
One will realize how rich Sanatan Dharma & its mother language Sanskrit is & why we have a rotten education system
Sanskrit words for "teacher" is based on their unique abilities & these are 6 phases or called it an
evolution of a Teacher.
1. The teacher who gives you Information is called ADHYAPAK 2. The one who imparts knowledge along with Information is called UPADHYAYA 3. The one who Imparts skill is called ACHARYA 4. The one who is able to give deep insight into a subject is called
PANDIT 5. The one who has a visionary view on a subject and teaches you to think in that manner is called DHRISHTA 6. The one who is able to awaken the wisdom in you, leading you from darkness to light is called GURU