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How India conquered space
Updated On: 28 August, 2020 07:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Jovita Aranha
Relive the incredible story of our fascinating space saga, its heroes and challenges in a new engaging podcast narrated by Harsha Bhogle
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Chandrayaan-2 lifts off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh in July 2019. Pic/ PTI
April 4, 1984, marked a historic day for India as the first Indian in space, donning a white spacesuit and glass visor floated miles above the Earth. From the Soviet space station Salyut 7, Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma communicated with the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi at the Doordarshan studios in New Delhi. When asked by Gandhi how India looked from outer space, Sharma echoed the lines of Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Tarana-e-Hind saying, "Saare jahan se acha [the best in the universe]."
This momentous conversation opens the newly-launched Spotify original by ATS studio, Mission ISRO narrated by famed commentator Harsha Bhogle. The podcast dropped its first episode last week and we must say that it is one of the more spectacular audio stories we've heard in a while. It draws the listener in with a range of elements from Bhogle's incredible style and diction to snippets of rare audios from the archives and lesser-known aspects from the lives of visionaries like Dr Vikram Sarabhai and Mumbai's very own Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
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