Few world events

H’uh ... its been long ... isn’t it ...

Anyhooo ... well nothing major happened in my life ... life is as mundane as it can be ... I wake up ... go office ... come back home ... sleep ... and so on and so forth ... nothing special happened in last 7-8 days ...

However, quite a few historic events occurred in world history ... like the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1 (Moon Craft). It was a very proud moment for India as it launched its first ever unmanned moon mission and this week it entered into lunar orbit. With a budget of less than $100 million, it was one of the cheapest space missions. This mission created a world record by successfully launching 10 satellites in one go. As a result, it shattered the previous record of a Russian rocket that successfully launched eight satellites last year. Do you know that India has 11 national communications satellites in orbit – the largest for any country in the Asia-Pacific region. India also has 7 remote sensing satellites in orbit, the largest number of any country in the civilian domain. Almost a third of the global market for remote sensing images at a resolution of 5-6 meters has already been captured by India. Mind blowing isn’t it? India is in an elite list of selected countries that has such sophisticated technologies. India’s space organization, ISRO (setup 35 years ago), has a yearly budget of mere $1bn as compared to NASA’s $17bn. Moreover, due to various sanctions because of nuclear tests, nobody helped India in such sophisticated technology. So the achievements are all the more impressive.

Another first ... America elected its first ever colored candidate ... that was huge. The whole world stood up and took notice of that event. The euphoria in India (especially among the Indian media) was unprecedented. It was like we are having an election and electing someone from minority. At one point of time ... I just had it with all the hype. I know that was a big deal in USA ... but c’mon ... he is after all just another president and being an Indian we should look at that with Indian perspective. Let us not forget that Obama’s rhetoric against outsourcing should not make us happy ... after all Indian resurrection in last 15 years is greatly helped by the outsourced jobs. Obama is not too happy about the nuclear deal either ... he wants us to sign the CTBT, which effectively means we would surrender our right to conduct nuclear test. So his pre election speeches are not very good for us. I hope those speeches are just that ... speeches ... he doesn’t act on them

On a more serious note (ahahahaha) ... India won the Border-Gavaskar trophy by pounding the Aussies to a humiliating 2-0 series victory. Team India is taking long strides and if the consistency continues, we will be the kings of all the three forms of the game. Yippie !!!!

Well still trying to recover from seasonal cold ... have taken 2 days sick leave and hope to join office tomorrow. Sitting idle at home is not fun ... thank god I still have a job ... ahahahaha

So long ... see you all soon ... cheers