When the government wants to rewrite a new India, the question is, should we let go of the precious remnants of our combined past? History cannot be rewritten or made. As Martin Luther King has rightly put it, "We are not makers of history. We are made by history".
The question is, instead of dousing the fire, couldn’t both the flames have co-existed? It is hard to imagine that a government that is going to spend 20,000 crores towards the Central Vista project couldn't just keep two flames burning.
We must now wait until Webb reaches L2 at the end of the month and completes a six month cooling period before science operations begin in June. We know much of the science that will result from Webb's journey, but the true excitement will be in the science that we could not have anticipated.
There are too many moving pieces in this regional great game. China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan - all want to take control of this important piece of the jigsaw puzzle to build their influence in the region