The Lalit Blog

Lalit Shastri Contrary to what Shashi Tharoor has said in this video, Nehru did not create ISRO....it was Vikram Sarabhai who should get the credit for giving us the concept or the notional framework of ISRO or the Indian Space Research Organisation. Actually, the mother organisation and front runner of India's space programme is Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, which was set up by the Sarabhai Trust. Much of the original recruitment was done under it. There is strangely no government of India order to create ISRO. Also till date, there is neither any government order for the appointment of anyone as Chairman ISRO nor any rule or notification stating that the Secretary Department of Space will be ex-officio Chairman of ISRO. There is only a Space Comission and a Department of Space. In fact, till now there is no organisation created by the Central Government called ISRO. After watching this video, I strongly felt the need to call the bluff as such leaders are adept in adopt

Lalit Shastri All should be taught our glorious history and also every bit of how the history of the last millennium, of the vast Indian sub-continent, has been fudged to bury the holocaust, massacre of millions of Hindus and how they were subjected to barbaric torture for religious conversion. This is not just a matter of history, it has remained a continuous process. It is not long ago that the world witnessed the biggest displacement of population in human history and the slaughter of more than a million by those who swear by the two nation theory when India was divided in 1947. As recently as 1990-91, the Kashmir valley was turned into hell by the same radicalised mind set that drove out the Kashmiri Hindus from their homes and made them refugees in their own country- they did this by terror, rape, loot and murder. We have to be cautious of those who define their religion by "us and them" and have preferred to organise themselves politically and nation-state wise under a