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to the early decades of the last century, we can
see that the world was experiencing devastation The success of Mangalyaan
and tragedy. But, even at that time, scientists
from both the East and the West were working on and Chandrayaan, preparations
major discoveries. Many scientists in the West, for Gaganyaan, have given a
including Einstein, Fermi, Max Planck, Niels new enthusiasm to the young
Bohr, and Tesla, surprised the world with their generation of the country. Today,
experiments. At the same time, Indian scientists the name of Chandrayaan is on
such as C. V. Raman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, the lips of small children of India.
Satyendranath Bose, Meghnad Saha, and S. Today every child of India is seeing
Chandrashekhar were making breakthroughs. All
of these scientists paved the way for a brighter his future as a scientist.
future. Referring to these examples, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi stated that one major
difference between the East and the West was at Bengaluru airport. From there, he travelled
that we did not celebrate the work of our scientists to ISRO early in the morning, where he met and
as much as we should have. This resulted in encouraged the scientists. The ecosystem of
apathy towards science among a large segment research and innovation in India should be the
of Indian society. We inspire new artists when we best in the world. In the Amrit Kaal, a new India
encourage art. Similarly, when we recognise our has been assembled with full sincerity for this, so
scientists' accomplishments, science becomes that space science and technology continue to
a natural part of our society and culture. add new chapters to the ease of living of ordinary
However, the new India now celebrates and citizens as well as to good governance.
glorifies its scientists' achievements. The most
notable example of this is when Prime Minister CONTRIBUTES TO EASE OF LIVING AND GOOD
Narendra Modi, who travelled to South Africa to GOVERNANCE
attend the BRICS meeting on August 23 during In fact, the space sector is an excellent medium
Chandrayaan-3's moon landing, returned to India for the advancement of 140 crore citizens,
on August 26 in the early hours and landed right allowing for improved mapping, imaging, and
connectivity in everyday life. Better speed from
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