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sandeepbalyan
September 25th, 2002, 02:14 PM
whenever you are free. please have a look at this speech, its Good

I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history people from
all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands,
conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the
Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them
came and looted
us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other
nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land,
their
culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Why?
Because we respect the freedom of others.
That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got
its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of
independence.It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build
on. If we arenot free, no one will respect us.
My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have been a
developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation.
We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10
percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our
achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the
self-confidence to
see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn't
this incorrect?
I have a THIRD vision. India must stand up to the world. Because I believe
that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only
strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power
but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand.
My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr.Vikram
Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded
himand Dr. Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have
worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great
opportunity of my life.
I see four milestones in my career:
ONE: Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the opportunity to be
the
project director for India's first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The
one
that launched Rohini. These years played a very important role in my
life
of Scientist.
TWO: After my ISRO years, I joined DRDO and got a chance to be the part
of
India's guided missile program. It was my second bliss when Agni met
its
mission requirements in 1994.
THREE: The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this tremendous
partnership in the recent nuclear tests, on May 11 and 13. This was the
third
bliss. The joy of participating with my team in these nuclear tests and
proving to the world that India can make it, that we are no longer a
developing
nation but one of them. It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The fact
that
we have now developed for Agni a re-entry structure, for which we have
developed this new material. A Very light material called
carbon-carbon.
FOUR: One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Institute of Medical
Sciences visited my laboratory. He lifted the material and found it so
light that he took me to his hospital and showed me his patients. There
were these little girls and boys with heavy metallic calipers weighing
over
three Kg. each, dragging their feet around. He said to me: Please
remove
the pain of my patients. In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction
Orthosis 300 gram callipers and took them to the orthopedic centre. The
children didn't believe their eyes. From dragging around a three kg.
load
on their legs, they could now move around! Their parents had tears in
their
eyes. That was my fourth bliss!