What Are We Doing?

India has been having political problems with Pakistan and China for years. We might have won certain wars but what have we actually achieved? Did we keep Jammu and Kashmir safe from their invasion? Have a look at the present map of Jammu and Kashmir. The complete northern areas in green now belongs to Pakistan and the eastern area called Aksai Chin belongs to China. Only the orange part belongs to India now.

The famous victory of Kargil War didn’t keep Pakistan away from Kashmir but the hard truth is we just kept them from further invasion. With nearly half of our precious Kashmir into the hands of our enemy are we looking to get it back? What are we actually doing? Do our politicians think that Pakistan will give it back to us as a gift if we have “PEACE TALKS”???

I can understand that India least require a war at this point of time when our economy is booming and we are nearing the developed stage. Yet it is unbelievable to think that India isn’t trying to get it back at all.

I just hope that India’s map in the future will be the same as at Independence (with the full J&K under India).

Chandrayaan 2 Design Completed

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the design for the second moon mission, ‘Chadrayaan 2‘ is completed on December 24th, Wednesday. The mission is supposed to carry a lander/rover whereas the mother spacecraft will orbit the Moon. Chandrayaan 2 is said to be launched on 2012.

ISRO has collaborated with Russia for building the rover. The rover will have a soft landing on the moon unlike the MIP probe of Chandrayaan 1 which had a hard landing. The rover will collect the soil and rock samples from the moon, do in-situ tests and send the data to Earth through the orbiter. The estimated cost for Chandrayaan 2 is said to be Rs. 425 crore (US $ 90 million).

ISRO is currently earning about Rs 10 billion (Rs 1,000 crore) annually from its commercial wing. Chandrayaan is expected make it grow at 20 percent per year.

Anyways, I forgot to mention this in my previous post. The previous one was my 50th post.

W2M Satellite Launched

Another achievement by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as the satellite “W2M” was successfully launched Sunday morning at Kourou in French Guyana.

Ariane – 5 before launch

Ariane-5 (rocket) was launched on sunday bearing two satellites, “W2M and Hot Bird 9″. The space craft W2M, weighing 3463 kg was built by ISRO. This is the heaviest satellite ever built by ISRO and its capable of operating over 15 years. W2M is a communication satellite built on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe.

W2M Satellite Launched

Another achievement by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as the satellite “W2M” was successfully launched Sunday morning at Kourou in French Guyana.

Ariane – 5 before launch

Ariane-5 (rocket) was launched on sunday bearing two satellites, “W2M and Hot Bird 9″. The space craft W2M, weighing 3463 kg was built by ISRO. This is the heaviest satellite ever built by ISRO and its capable of operating over 15 years. W2M is a communication satellite built on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe.

A/C Bus Station In India

You would have probably heard this news from TV and newspaper that Bharati AirTel has launched India’s first ever A/C Bus Station at Kasturiba Street, Bengaluru. Here is a picture of our first ever A/C Bus Station.

It is really nice that India is developing but this is nothing to the one I found on net. Here is a picture of an A/C Bus Station at Curitaba, Brazil. It is simply amazing and our Bharati’s is nothing compared to it.

When is India gonna create something as this? No idea! We just have to wait and watch.