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As a young democracy grows out of adolescence, its rolling out reels and reels of tales. If the first post office or a telephone connection paints one colour, the Stamp of a stock market scam or the ‘Jewel Thieves’ scandal paint yet another colour. If failure of a sounding rocket was a stepping stone, sending 104 satellites in one go was a podium. If farmer suicides are a bad climax, growing number of Unicorns are a grand entry. Chethan Kumar, Senior Assistant Editor, The Times of India, who alternates between the mundane goings-on of the hoi polloi and the wonder-filled worlds of scientists and scamsters, politicians and Jawans, feels: “There’s always a story, one just has to find it. LESS... MORE
On Sunday, Isro made cautious progress on a trial for a complex satellite docking manoeuvre, indigenously developed. Mastery over docking is a feat only US, Russia and China can boast of. Isro’s new chief, rocket scientist V Narayanan assumes office tomorrow (Jan 14).
Narayanan, with 41 years of space research experience, tells Chethan Kumar about the space agency’s work culture and India’s missions that’ll help it become a space superpower.
The 60-year-old was born to farmer C Vanniyaperumal and homemaker S Thangammal in Melakattuvilai village, Kanyakumari, and grew up in modest circumstances.
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