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[The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX]

On May 8, 2025, as Pakistani drones and missiles were intercepted over Indian airspace during Operation Sindoor, a retired scientist watched the reports come in on television. "This is the happiest day of my life," said Dr. Prahlada Ramarao. He had spent 15 years building the weapon that was doing the intercepting.

The story begins in 1983 at DRDO's laboratory in Hyderabad, where Prahlada was a junior scientist working alongside Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. India had just approved the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, charged with building five missile systems from scratch. Kalam chose Prahlada, still in his thirties, to lead Akash, the most complex of the five.

"I was young and scared about handling such a massive responsibility," Prahlada would later say. Kalam's instruction was simple: get it done.

The challenge was daunting. India needed a surface-to-air missile capable of engaging multiple fast-moving aircrafts simultaneously, each equipped with electronic warfare designed to defeat the radar tracking it. The Rajendra Radar, a Passive Electronically Scanned Array system, was Akash's eye and ear for every engagement. Prahlada coordinated 1,000 scientists across 12 laboratories, solving signal processing failures and electronic jamming in a phased array comprising roughly 4,000 discrete elements. Development took fifteen years from first principles to battlefield readiness.

The Rajendra can track up to 64 aerial targets and engage 12 of them concurrently. Akash's total development cost came in 8 to 10 times lower than comparable foreign systems. Countries including Armenia have since placed export orders. Prahlada received the Padma Shri in 2015, virtually unknown to the public he spent a career protecting.

More than four decades after Kalam handed him the project, his missile system went to war for India.

That is what indigenous defence technology looks like when it is given the time, the trust, and the people it deserves.

[Kumar R Talukdar🇮🇳 @Kumarjyoti49291]

Shocking incident at Bundelkhand Medical College, Sagar: A female doctor alleges BJP Yuva Morcha leader Anil Shrivastava inappropriately touched her back during night duty and threatened to shoot her for resisting. Police have registered an FIR for molestation and threats. Doctors protest, demanding arrest. This raises serious questions about women's safety in healthcare settings amid political influence.

[Ganesha | गणेशा @GaneshaSpeaks_]

Potholes on Missing Link were defended with 'first layer,second layer' excuses. Now an entire slab collapse at the tunnel entrance! What's the excuse now, Fadnavis?

Stop blinding citizens with heavy rain script.This is blatant corruption & substandard work playing with our lives

[Tarush Nagpal @TarushNagpal]

The bane of India’s dust issues, construction material left in the open does this not count as blocking of footpaths? @krishnabgowda

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett on Ethanol blending in Petrol:

“Ethanol blending is a very stupid way to try and solve an energy problem.”

“It takes more fossil fuel energy to create ethanol than you can get out of ethanol you’ve created.”

- Charlie Munger. 2006.

[Dr. Divya Sharma @divya_sharmaMD]

Most of Indian middle class wants to avoid conflict, people are so busy making ends meet that even standing up for a just concern seems indimidating.

Unlike the developed countries where rule of law gives you confidence to stand up. Here system is designed to exhaust you and sadly the whistleblower and all those who come forward may actually become unemployable

[My Vadodara @MyVadodara]

Banana Republic?

Electric department closed expressway without prior notice to transfer wire line on Vadodara - Mumbai Expressway!

[A. @acharjee_speaks]

A 13 year old girl gang raped by 30 Indian men.

This case should shake the entire nation. Instead,the Indian mainstream media and the government remain largely silent.

How many more such cases will it take before women's safety becomes a priority instead of just an election slogan?

[Anika M @Anika_Breaths]

The silence surrounding the brutal five-day gang-rape of an innocent 13-year-old girl by 30 men in Ganganagar is absolutely deafening.
There are no protests, no mainstream news broadcasts and no trending topics on X for an act so monstrous.
It raises a disturbing question: is the public and media look the other way purely because this happened under a BJP administration?
Everything is allowed under BJP watch?

[Bharat Smiles @BharatSmil6447]

@REDBOXINDIA That's the issue with the BJP govt. The intent is often right, but the execution falls short.

If the govt wants people to adopt E20 petrol, why not offer it at a lower price?

It feels like pushing code to production without proper performance testing.

very disappointed 😞

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

CONTROLLED LAB TESTS BY ARAI CONFIRM E20 FUEL GIVES LESS MILEAGE THAN REGULAR PETROL. INDIA IS SAVING ON OIL IMPORTS BUT THE COST IS BEING SILENTLY PASSED TO EVERY VEHICLE OWNER

[Agent Peenya @Themangofellow]

Something meaningful happening after ages in namma Bengaluru.

Thank you sir @krishnabgowda 🫡

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Straight Bat Vlog: sadly SMART cities is more HYPE without SUBSTANCE: truth is India’s urban governance and infrastructure is BROKEN! How many more Vihaans will be killed before we wake up as citizens to the neta-official-contractor nexus? Full video here: feedback welcome! https://t.co/v6RacKzCYo…

[ದಿP🍉 @dipunair]

#Singapore became what it is today coz Lee Kuan Yew took some tough decisions that fundamentally changed the country.

We can either continue accepting conditions that resemble a third world city OR embrace difficult but necessary reforms to build a world class city. #Bengaluru

[Harish Upadhya @harishupadhya]

"Footpaths are for pedestrians, not cattle."

MLA Ravi Subramanya loses his cool after finding cattle tied on footpaths, cow dung littered, fodder strewn across newly built white topped road.

"Crores have been spent on this road.Keep your cattle inside your property" #Bengaluru

[Give me the Old India back! @geolazo]

@anil_lulla @ravikeerthi22 @mkhadeerahmed The moral decay in the police force seems to run deep across India. We urgently need police reforms.

[Chetan Anantharamu @gandabherunda]

Am all for every party to begin fighting elections on Urban Governance model.
Take on the real estate mafia, free footpaths from encroachment & clean roads of stray dogs & stray cattle.
These are now topics not just of Tier-1 but also for Tier-2 & 3 cities as well across India.
GenZ & Millenials will vote in droves for any party that promises these & delivers it on ground..

[Dare2Dream ☀️🔆 @Dare2Dr]

@deepakshenoy Yes , the fund did well in the downturn

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

People get fined for overspeeding, wrong parking, no seatbelt and many other violations.

But no government official is ever punished for robbing citizens of their basic dignity on the road.