Download or read book Vikram Sarabhai a Life written by Amrita Shah and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vikram Sarabhai (1919 71), The Renaissance Man Of Indian Science, Visualized The Impossible And Often Made It Happen. Founder Of India S Space Programme, Vikram Dreamed Of Communication Satellites That Would Educate People At A Time When Even A Modest Rocket Programme Seemed Daring; Of Huge Agricultural Complexes Serviced By Atomic Power And Desalinated Sea Water. He Envisioned Research Technology That Would Free Indian Industry From Foreign Dependence, And Of A World-Class Management College That Would Train Managers For The Public Sector. Amrita Shah S Vikram Sarabhai: A Life Is The Story Of This Dynamic Visionary. Born Into An Immensely Wealthy And Politically Conscious Business Family, Vikram Had An Early Understanding Of The Power Of Money And The Problems Of A Newly Independent Nation, To Which He Married A Deep Love For Physics. Between 1947 And 1971, He Built A Thriving Pharmaceutical Business, Conducted Research Into Cosmic Rays, Set Up India S First Textile Research Cooperative, Atira, The First Market Research Organization, Org, The Indian Institute Of Management In Ahmedabad And The Dance Academy Darpana. He Also Headed The Atomic Energy Commission And Laid The Foundations For The World S First Entirely Peaceful Space Programme. Good-Looking, Charismatic, Married To The Glamorous Classical Dancer Mrinalini And Closely Associated With The Most Influential Figures Of His Time C.V. Raman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Homi Bhabha, Bruno Rossi, Louis Kahn And John Rockefeller Iii Vikram Seemed To Have Led A Charmed Existence. Yet, His Personal Life Was Troubled And His Strong Resistance To India S Move Towards A Nuclear Explosion In The Late 1960S Put Him At Odds With Powerful Lobbies And Fellow Technologists. Amrita Shah Delves Into The Life And Mind Of This Fascinating, Complex Individual. This Is A Vivid And Intimate Portrait Of A Multifaceted Genius Who Died Young, But Whose Vision Still Drives India S Ambitious Space Programme And Inspires Indians In All Walks Of Life
Download or read book Vikram Sarabhai written by Amrita Shah and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vikram Sarabhai (1919-71), the renaissance man of Indian science, thought up the impossible and often made it happen. Founder of India's space programme (ISRO), Vikram dreamed of communication satellites that would educate people at a time when even a modest rocket programme seemed daring; of huge agricultural complexes serviced by atomic power and desalinated sea water. He envisioned research technology that would free Indian industry from foreign dependence, and of a world-class management college that would train managers for the public sector. Between 1947 and 1971, he built a thriving pharmaceutical business, conducted research into cosmic rays, headed the Atomic Energy Commission; set up India's first textile research cooperative, ATIRA, the first market research organization, ORG, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and the dance academy Darpana. Handsome, charismatic, married to pioneering classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and closely associated with the most influential figures of his time—everyone from C.V. Raman and Jawaharlal Nehru to Bruno Rossi, Louis Kahn and John Rockefeller III—Vikram led what seemed like a charmed existence. Yet, his personal life was troubled and his strong resistance to India's move towards a nuclear explosion in the late 1960s put him at odds with powerful lobbies and fellow technologists. In this vivid and intimate account, Amrita Shah delves into the life and mind of a fascinating, complex individual, a multifaceted genius who died young, but whose vision still drives India's ambitious space programme—and continues to inspire India today.
Download or read book Dr Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai written by S.K. Agrawal and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ISRO written by R. Aravamudan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISRO pioneer R. Aravamudan narrates the gripping story of the people who built India's space research programme and how they did it - from the rocket engineers who laid the foundation to the savvy young engineers who keep Indian spaceships flying today. It is the tale of an Indian organization that defied international bans and embargos, worked with laughably meagre resources, evolved its own technology and grew into a major space power. Today, ISRO creates, builds and launches gigantic rockets which carry the complex spacecraft that form the neural network not just of our own country but those of other countries too. This is a made-in-India story like no other.
Download or read book Ready To Fire written by Nambi Narayanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top scientist is falsely accused of selling space technology secrets. A police inspector's misadventure with a Maldivian woman results in a fabricated espionage case. A faction within a political party capitalises on the case to bring down a government. An intelligence agency obligingly plays into the hands of vested interests to slow down India's space programme. And a complex investigation finally proves the allegations untrue. In this riveting book, Isro scientist S Nambi Narayanan - who was falsely accused of espionage in ISRO spy case of the 1990s - and senior journalist Arun Ram meticulously unpick the ISRO spy case, revisit old material and discover new details to expose the international plot that delayed India's development of a cryogenic engine by at least a decade. It took four years for the CBI to exonerate Nambi, but his fight for justice to ensure action against the officers who faked the case and tortured him in custody continues. This book is as much a history of the early days of India's ambitious space programme as it is a record of one of the most sensational cases that enthralled the nation long before the era of online updates and 24-hour news cycles.
Download or read book Wings of Fire written by Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, The Son Of A Little-Educated Boat-Owner In Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, Had An Unparalled Career As A Defence Scientist, Culminating In The Highest Civilian Award Of India, The Bharat Ratna. As Chief Of The Country`S Defence Research And Development Programme, Kalam Demonstrated The Great Potential For Dynamism And Innovation That Existed In Seemingly Moribund Research Establishments. This Is The Story Of Kalam`S Rise From Obscurity And His Personal And Professional Struggles, As Well As The Story Of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul And Nag--Missiles That Have Become Household Names In India And That Have Raised The Nation To The Level Of A Missile Power Of International Reckoning.
Download or read book I Too Had a Dream written by Verghese Kurien and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Calicut, Kerala, Dr Verghese Kurien graduated in science and engineering from Madras University and Michigan State University, US, respectively. He began his career in dairying at the government's creamery in Anand, Gujarat, later joining the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers'Union Limited (now Amul). As chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, he implemented 'Operation Flood'. He has received countless awards, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963), Wateler Peace Prize (1986), World Food Prize (1989) Padma Shri (1965), Padma Bhushan (1966) and Padma Vibhushan (1999). Dr Kurien is currently Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand; Chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation; and Chairman of the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India. Gouri Salvi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist. She has worked with Onlooker and Sunday magazines, and with the Women's Feature Service. She has written on development and gender issues, has co-edited Beijing! a book on the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women, and edited Development Retold: Voices From the Field, a book on the Indian Cooperative Union.
Download or read book Topi Rockets from Thumba The Story behind India s First Ever Rocket Launch written by Menaka Raman and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1963 and India is about to embark on an audacious adventure - launching its first ever rocket into space. After much searching, a team of scientists led by the visionary Dr Vikram Sarabhai zero in on Thumba, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Kerala as the place to launch the rocket and India's dreams of space exploration. Mary is all of 10 years old and bored of life in sleepy Thumba. Nothing ever happens here but fishing. That is, of course, until Dr Sarabhai and team arrive! Topi Rockets from Thumba is an imagined account of the weeks and months leading up to the launch of India's first ever rocket, told through the eyes of the inquisitive Mary.
Download or read book My Odyssey written by K Radhakrishnan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, Dr. K. Radhakrishnan was named one of the top ten scientists in the world by Nature magazine—the first Indian scientist to be so honoured. Earlier that year, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully ran the Mars Orbiter Mission, popularly known as the ‘Mangalyaan’ mission. ISRO’s Moon Rover, scheduled for 2018, is also Radhakrishnan’s brainchild. Witness to the transformation of India’s space programme in the early 1980s, Radhakrishnan cut his teeth with the SLV-3 project, the country’s first satellite launch vehicle. He worked with stalwarts like Dr Vikram Sarabhai, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Prof. Satish Dhawan and Mr Y.S. Rajan, wearing several different hats during his illustrious and challenging career. Radhakrishnan eventually turned major setbacks into roaring successes by his unfailingly belief in human endeavour and a commitment to excellence. Packed with invaluable information and insights, this fascinating memoir takes us behind the scenes of India’s cutting-edge world of scientific achievement.
Download or read book The Indian Space Programme written by Gurbir Singh and published by Astrotalkuk Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years in the making, India's Space Programme is fulfilling the vision of its founders and delivering services from space that touch the lives of 1.3 billion people every day. In addition to operating a collection of satellites for weather, Earth observation, navigation and communication today, India has a spacecraft orbiting Mars and a space telescope in Earth orbit. This book provides the big picture of India's long association with science, from historical figures like Aryabhata and Bhaskara to Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai, the key architects of its space program. It covers the scientific contribution of Indian scientists during the European Enlightenment and industrial revolution. It traces the technological development of Tipu Sultan's use of rockets for war in the 1780s; the all-but-forgotten contribution of Stephen H Smith's use of rockets as a means of transport in 1935 in northern India; and the emergence of Sriharikota – India's spaceport, the heart of India's modern Space Programme. • A detailed account of how a fishing village in Kerala was transformed into a space centre and used to launch India's first rocket into space on 21 November 1963. • A detailed summary of India's space infrastructure – launch vehicles, deep space network, Telemetry, Tracking and Command and space assets in orbit. • Description of how the ordinary people of India benefit from the services delivered by the space programme • Why India chose to go to the Moon and Mars and how it got there. • The prospects for India's ambitions in space for human spaceflight, national security and scientific exploration • An analysis of how India's Space Programme may play out on the global stage. Will it compete or collaborate with China, USA and Russia in space? This detailed work, in 645 pages, 29 tables and 9 appendices, is richly illustrated with 140+ illustrations (some images published for the first time) and supported by over 1,000 references. It is written for the non-specialist, offering a big-picture view.
Download or read book Space and Beyond written by B. N. Suresh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the journey of Dr. K Kasturirangan, who shares his experience during his long tenure at ISRO including the Chairmanship of ISRO, subsequently membership of the Rajya Sabha, the Planning Commission and many other responsibilities. Over the past five decades of public and professional service to the nation, Dr. Kasturirangan has graduated from a young researcher in astrophysics working under Vikram Sarabhai to leading India’s space program (ISRO), being entrusted by five successive Prime Ministers, besides dealing with several other domains of responsibilities beyond space, all of which have significantly impacted India’s development. This book centers around select 12 public invited lectures, Dr. Kasturirangan delivered ranging from developing hi-tech space systems, to managing an organization as intricate as ISRO which was guided by the wisdom of mentors, including Vikram Sarabhai, M G K Menon, Satish Dhawan and U. R. Rao, to tackling multi-faceted socio-economic issues, including India’s nuclear deal, report headed by him on the Western Ghats ecosystem, and the new National Education Policy 2020. Scientists, historians, policy makers, management strategists, journalists, or anyone with a keen interest in understanding the processes behind such large-scale science, technology and socio-economic endeavors – right from planning, creating appropriate institutional mechanisms, working with multiple stakeholders to ensure that these programs deliver tangible benefits to society, articulating these benefits with clarity to political leaders to assure public support – will find this book deeply instructive and illuminating. It will be of interest to the scientific, education and management community as well as to policy makers and researchers affiliated with multifaceted developmental issues.
Download or read book Integrated Design for Space Transportation System written by B.N. Suresh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the overall integrated design aspects of a space transportation system involving several disciplines like propulsion, vehicle structures, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, navigation, guidance and control systems, stage auxiliary systems, thermal systems etc. and discusses the system approach for design, trade off analysis, system life cycle considerations, important aspects in mission management, the risk assessment, etc. There are several books authored to describe the design aspects of various areas, viz., propulsion, aerodynamics, structures, control, etc., but there is no book which presents space transportation system (STS) design in an integrated manner. This book attempts to fill this gap by addressing systems approach for STS design, highlighting the integrated design aspects, interactions between various subsystems and interdependencies. The main focus is towards the complex integrated design to arrive at an optimum, robust and cost effective space transportation system. The orbital mechanics of satellites including different coordinate frames, orbital perturbations and orbital transfers are explained. For launching the satellites to meet specific mission requirements, viz., payload/orbit, design considerations, giving step by step procedure are briefed. The selection methodology for launch vehicle configuration, its optimum staging and the factors which influence the vehicle performance are summarized. The influence of external, internal and dynamic operating environments experienced by the vehicle subsystems and the remedial measures needed are highlighted. The mission design strategies and their influence on the vehicle design process are elaborated. The various critical aspects of STS subsystems like flight mechanics, propulsion, structures and materials, thermal systems, stage auxiliary systems, navigation, guidance and control and the interdependencies and interactions between them are covered. The design guidelines, complexity of the flight environment and the reentry dynamics for the reentry missions are included. The book is not targeted as a design tool for any particular discipline or subsystem. Some of the design related equations or expressions are not attempted to derive from the first principle as this is beyond the scope of this book. However, the important analytical expressions, graphs and sketches which are essential to provide in-depth understanding for the design process as well as to understand the interactions between different subsystems are appropriately included.
Download or read book C V Raman written by Uma Parameswaran and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1888-1970, Indian physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
Download or read book Chandragupta Vikramaditya written by Sumit Kumar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first centur y before Christ; the Saka kings were prominent in western India. They were brave warriors. Their growing supremacy was checked by the Gupta King; Chandragupta Vikramaditya. At the same time ; he had protected the nation against the foreign in vasions. Therefore; he is also known as ‘Sakari’ (the enemy of Sakas). It was due to this significant work that he assumed the title of ‘Vikramaditya’. He is also known as Chandragupta II.
Download or read book Rajendra Prasad written by Kavita Garg and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajendra Prasad by Kavita Garg: Rajendra Prasad by Kavita Garg is a captivating biography that explores the life and contributions of one of India's eminent leaders, Rajendra Prasad. From his humble beginnings to becoming the first President of independent India, Prasad's journey is brought to life in this insightful book. Garg delves into Prasad's involvement in the freedom struggle, his role in drafting the Indian Constitution, and his tenure as the President, showcasing his unwavering commitment to the nation and his pivotal role in shaping India's early years as a republic. Key Points: Chronicles Rajendra Prasad's upbringing, his early education, and his foray into politics, providing a nuanced understanding of his evolution as a leader. Explores Prasad's pivotal role in the Indian National Congress, his involvement in various freedom movements, and his contributions to the framing of the Indian Constitution as the President of the Constituent Assembly. Sheds light on Prasad's tenure as the first President of India, his commitment to democracy, and his efforts in building a strong foundation for the country's governance, leaving a lasting legacy as a statesman and a champion of constitutional values.
Download or read book Veer Savarkar written by Kavita Garg and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a brave and staunch patriot. He was born on 28th of May; 1883; in a village called Bhagoor near Nasik in Maharashtra. His parents were from a middle-class background. His mother; Radhabai was a religious lady. She was extremely kind and honest. His father; Pt. Damodar Pant was known far and wide for his knowledge. As a child; Savarkar used to be called ‘Tatya’ by the family members. Mother Radhabai used to call her son ‘Vinayak’ with great affection. Vinayak; the little boy; was brought up with great love and care. Due to the religious environment at home; the child used to get a lot of opportunities to regularly listen to the chapters from the Ramayana and the Gita. This had a deep impact on his life. Selected Stories of Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac: In this collection, Honoré de Balzac presents a selection of his acclaimed short stories, showcasing his incredible talent for vivid storytelling and character development. With its rich language and engaging narratives, this book is a must-read for fans of classical literature. Key Aspects of the Book "Selected Stories of Honoré de Balzac": Collection of Short Stories: The book features a collection of acclaimed short stories by Honoré de Balzac. Vivid Storytelling and Character Development: The stories showcase Balzac's incredible talent for vivid storytelling and character development. Useful for Literature Enthusiasts: The book is useful for fans of classical literature and those interested in the works of Balzac. Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright who is regarded as one of the greatest writers of Western literature. His book, Selected Stories of Honoré de Balzac, is highly regarded for its captivating storytelling and rich language.
Download or read book Management for Development written by Vikram A. Sarabhai and published by Delhi : Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggestions to improve the management of the public sector undertakings in India.