Hello everybody,
As any other blogger I thought I will stop blogging after 2 or 3 posts. But with all my will I am continuing. Hope I will continue it. Any way it is the boxing day post ( like the boxing day test is popular, this post contains a conversation that is common in our day to day life).
The situation is that after having a full lunch on a sunday in the mess, people started flocking to the hostel common room to watch the test match between India and South Africa that is supposed to start by 02:00 pm. Seems like the pitch is damped and people started reading news papers before the match starts. That's when two of my hostel mates started discussing in Malayalam. Let the names be X and Y. I will be Amarnath here in this conversation.
X: something...something ( in mallu) GSLV failed, 300 crores.......something something........
Y: something something........third failure, second after april's failure ......something something....russian engine.....third stage..........
X: something something......April third stage indian,...........now third stage russian........signal not reached second stage....failure in first stage.......
Y: aha.....
X: Last week they detected a fault in fuel pipe of cryogenic engine (laughs aloud )..........
Y: Nods in agreement.....
Amarnath: Hi, Are you talking about the GSLV failure yesterday?(As if I did not hear anything)
X: Yes man....they failed again, this is very bad....ISRO is not realising from its mistakes.......and then they compare with NASA and make us think that our country is developed........(laughs)
Amar: hmm....but april failure is only the testing stage of our cryogenic engine right...that is not related to this failure,...right now a russian cryogenic engine is being used and that too failure is not in the cryogenic engine...it seems that failure is in the first stage......
X: Yes man......but see they failed half of the times they don't realise mistakes( again)........now they have wasted hundreds of crores.....
Amar: Yes man but only when we fail we can learn from our mistakes right...and whenever you compare with NASA you should see that our budget is very small and we have been doing well with whatever we have.....
Y: (intervenes) I agree but the developed countries have got their technologies long back and we are unable to develop them even after 40 years from when they developed?
Amar: yes but if u see the amount they spent on the research activities during those years we cannot even talk now.......our budget on r&d is very small even now .......then how can u expect all technologies as such........
X: I agree man then they should not compare with developed countries.....
Amar: May I know who is comparing....?
X: Who is not doing.......?
Amar: Can you tell something specific?
X: see when Obama came he said that we are already developed country......
Amar: Leave obama, he came to do his business......who in India?
X: Why not ....Manmohan singh tells this?
Amar: Where did he say that we are developed?
Y: (intervenes again) Leave that but see we are just assembling the components bought from russia and U.S etc....why can't we develop on our own......
Amar: No man... I agree with u that we are buying technology and that is one of the major part of our import bill...but we have to.......
X: why do we have to? Why can't we do it here?
Amar: then we have to invest on our univesities and R&D institutes like ISRO and DRDO......but our govt cannot do more bcs that our priorities are different.......Is that true or not?
X: Yes our priorities are different! but why compare with America and say that we are equal to them. We are no where equal to them....
Amar: I agree with u...but what is wrong in expecting high....after all it is just talking...nothing harm happens to any one right?
X: May be I don't agree with you......we should not talk...we should do........
Amar: Do you think we are not doing?
X: yes...we are not doing.....see from 40 years we have been telling that we are developing country..but we are not becoming developed country because people are not doing enough work.........like the case of ISRO........
Amar: Yes da...I agree that we have been a developing country from years..but what I can tell you is we are doing better that our past.......from the last 20 years we have lifted masses out of poverty and there are still to come out of poverty........but it cannot happen in a second or a minute...we are doing better than many countries now......
X: dont say many countries....see countries like china which are big than our's and singapore which are smaller than our's are doing well...then why not we?
Amar: Yes man......But see China started reforms more than 40 years back and singapore is just a business dependent country..........it has also experienced recession with much effect than ours......then what is wrong with us...we are also growing and we will do well in the future....
X: Don't say that last 20 years we are developing again and again........we have to develop otherwise what is the use....dont see that as something big.......I dont agree with u....
Amar: Y not....inspite of may problems we are developing.......if u cannot agree there is some disagreement between us on this issue......let us go back to isro....hehheh
X: yes man..see now these guys will launch a PSLV in some months and say that they bounced back.....
Amar: what is wrong with it.......They are doing their schedule...nothing wrong...they have a well defined schedule and they follow it.....nothing wrong in launching a PSLV....
X: haha...PSLV is nothing big it is very easy vehicle and they do it to show that they are great....
Amar: I mean......PSLV is also developed here what is wrong in doing it well....you mean that we should not launch PSLV and on work on GSLV.....do u think PSLV is useless and the satellites we are launching with PSLV are of no value...?
X: No I dont say that but why should they launch PSLV immediately and say that they are good ?
Amar: I dont agree that they are launching PSLV to prove they are capable.....even if they are doing it for your said reason.......afterall they get half their money from launching foreign satellites ....in order to put confidence on our missions I say we should launch.......after all it is business right?
X: Yes now you came to the right point? they are not there to do business they should do our needs that some other countries....what if they fail again with GSLV ?
Amar: nothing ....we will pay NASA or some french company to launch our satellites......but we tried...right?
X: Yes now instead of launching a PSLV if they concentrate on GSLV more they will succeed it right?
Amar: I dont understand what do u mean by concentrating more on GSLV? Do you think they just stop working on that? Dont you think there will be people doing all kinds of things simultaneously? are you thinking they are no one in ISRO working on GSLV? we are also in the process of developing GSLV Mark 3....there might be some other team doing that also.....it is their duty....and what is wrong in it?
( I don't know why he started changing topic again )
X: Finally it is people like us who sit here and start blaming people , we should go and vote first.....(Who blamed till now?) These people who are earning and working in MNC's dont vote but sit in their food courts like us and start discussing things.......
Amar: Ya...but what we discussed is not blaming.....we just had a healthy debate it is a part of democracy......and then only one can clear his opinions....I dont think I blamed it is good to have a discussion....good.....
From now on the topic changed and no relevance now.....
Thanks for the patience to read.....
Amarnath A
