24 hours to lift-off. 🚀
Eight years ago, @SkyrootA started with just two people with an idea.
There was no policy framework for private spaceflight in India, no real funding ecosystem for space startups, and we were taking on one of the world’s hardest engineering challenges. The odds of success seemed incredibly small.
Today, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad, ready for lift-off.
This moment belongs to every member of our team, our investors, the Government of India,@PMOIndia, @isro, @INSPACeIND, our partners, suppliers, customers, and everyone who believed in us long before this day.
We have done everything we possibly could.
Now we let physics do its job.
Whatever tomorrow brings, every second of flight will teach us something invaluable. Reaching the launch pad and attempting an orbital launch is a landmark milestone for India—and an achievement only a handful of companies worldwide have reached. Every milestone we cross will advance not just Skyroot or India’s space journey, but the global commercial space ecosystem.
Tomorrow, we take the next step. 🇮🇳🚀
India just banned its sailors from the Strait of Hormuz.
India supplies 310,000 seafarers to the world's merchant fleet. That's the 2nd largest in the world.
The Philippines, number 1, already did the same.
No crew, no transit.
It is not possible to execute the biggest terror attacks in India without Bollywood involvement - whether its the Dutt family in 1993 or the Bhatt family in 2008
India should apply Enemy Property Act on any property owned by anyone who applied for an asylum citing Indian oppression. This should include all properties which they owned and those which are still with the family but ownership change happened less than ten years ago.
I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned.
I told the story in the Washington Examiner, out this morning:
https://t.co/IubzC65BoC
Only because we are the Mother of Democracy, we let terrorists like Diljit Dosanjh make commercial Khalistani propaganda - Punjab insurgency got 5000 security forces members killed but in our great nation we have so much more to spare
I was hurt and surprised to discover that this column looks almost identical to the piece I published on 6/22 for @thejuggernaut.
My piece isn’t something you'd easily find online: it took days of archival work & conversations with researchers.