Author of The Vedic People (Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, Sanskrit & British Empire, Science and the British Empire (Routledge) and Astronomy in India (INSA)
This essay was written in November 2013 and published ( along with some supplementary eye-catching material) in Power Politics , December 2013 issue: http://www.powerpolitics.in/Issues/December2013/page31.php Rajesh Kochhar On 5…
Power Politics ( Delhi) December 2013 http://www.powerpolitics.in/Issues/December2013/page31.php On 5 November 2013, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). The poverty argument The Times, London, noted…
India successfully launched its first unmanned spacecraft, Chandrayaan-I, on 22 October 2008. On 14 November 2008, it entered its final operational orbit at a height of 100 km from the lunar surface.…