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Space & Strategic Tech Fellow @orfonline. Author - The Long Siege (BluOne Ink, 2026); India in the Second Space Age (Routledge, 2022). #TheLongSiege
Apr 5, 2021 14 tweets 6 min read
#RocketryTheNambiEffect has MANY FIRSTS to its credit.

Making it, potentially, a late-but-not-least PIONEERING EFFORT in INDIAN CINEMA.

Putting them across in this THREAD and linked article.

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science.newsbharati.com/Encyc/2021/4/5… Given popular Indian cinema's repute for exploiting cinematic liberties, one wasn't expecting the moviemakers to research well?

But they did in this case. The movie therefore becomes a chronicle of India's post-independence struggle to reach where it is now.

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