Wth is going on in ISRO

 130 Scientists put in their papers at ISRO between February and June 2026

80 of them taking Voluntary Retirement at the age of 45–50 years , the other 50 openly leaving

Leaving where?

USA? Europe? Japan? China? Russia?

Naah

They are LEAVING TO JOIN THE PRIVATE AEROSPACE SECTOR INDIA!!

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This isn't what is meant by creating a Workforce

Poaching Scientists from within YOUR OWN COUNTRY is not building a workforce or a research base

It is simply ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL

An Academic Ponzi Scheme at the end of the day

As a Private Aerospace Industry you

• Offer mass Scholarships - ❌
• Invest heavily into Aerospace Engineering - ❌
• Build a trainee workforce from University - ❌
• Poach Scientists from Government Organizations offering them higher pay - ✅

How does this benefit India or anyone at the end of the day?

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They are not the most brilliant of scientists

Sure in the 1980s - the best of the crop joined ISRO,BARC or HAL

Today?

Most of the best minds - they are in foreign countries

The Scientists in ISRO are decent , some of them maybe even on the fringes of good

They may score a 50% to 60% in Scientific ability and analytical ability

Yet they are certainly incapable of pioneering major material science or engineering breakthroughs

You need Brilliant Scientists and Engineers for that

You need Brilliant Physicists for that

That means TALENT RETENTION

That means TALENT NURTURING

That means TALENT CREATION

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China has a Private Aerospace Sector that is presently 28 times larger than Indias

(221 Billion CNY vs ₹ 24,000 Crore)

Yet none of these companies POACH employees from State Owned Aerospace Corporations

They recruit from

• Universities
• Training Programs offered exclusively for them by PLAAF
• Overseas Universities especially Kazakhstan, Egypt, Russia, Pakistan & Tajikistan by offering major Scholarships
• Professors in Universities by offering them 3–5–10 yr consultancy contracts

They build a workforce over time

Just like they built a workforce for Semiconductors or AI or Robotics or EVs or Renewable Energy

Millions of Quiet Workers talented and capable , working on complex physics problems to change the world

Not hiring tired 40–50 yr olds from Govt of India organizations to revolutionize Aerospace in India 😁

It is possibly the STUPIDEST IDEA yet

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How can Private Aerospace ever grow and flourish?

As usual - the Sector will see an Adani , Ambani and Tata take charge

Bungle up somewhere as usual

Like Drishti Drones - Knockoffs on Hermes Platforms built by Adani that seems to crash more than ply across ocean surfaces

Plus Hermes itself has been ripped to pieces by the barely standing Iranian Air Defenses

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Come on India - Don't screw up everything 🙏

All you are doing now is depriving ISRO off talent and delaying their programs or putting hampers in them

You are NOT adding any value to the Aerospace Industry in any way whatsoever

These Aunties here did well for Mangalyaan and they can handle derivative operations based on blueprint orders

They aren't strategic team leaders who can formulate long term design and manufacturing plans

They can't pioneer programs for God's sake

That needs HARD CORE GROUND LEVEL TALENT , not older scientists

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If i want an AI workforce - i recruit 15–25 yr olds who are experts in Statistics, Data Science, Interface Development, Data Structures, Computer Organization, Algorithms

I don't go to Infosys and recruit 35–40 year olds whose expertise was in archaic coding that has little to no meaning in today's modern tech world of clouds and horizonal technology

What is wrong about Mumbai?

 EVERYTHING !

• Already overpopulated, yet new housing complexes and skyscrapers coming up everywhere

• Horrible Roads. We should lease it to NASA for simulation for riding on Moon or Mars.

• Horrible peak hour traffic.

Overcrowded local trains during peak hours.

• Every Monsoon, we are subject to this.

Inspite of repeated promises from the Municipal Corporation every year before monsoon, that there would be no water logging, we, Mumbaikars, are like this. YEAH RIGHT !

• City bursting at it’s seams and now Mumbai is almost starting to encroach on Lonavala in the near future. We have already encroached on Panvel and beyond.

• Alarming Real Estate prices : For Example : A new residential complex named Vasant Oasis, located just a stone’s throw from where I live. The prices of apartments:

2 Bedroom Hall Kitchen : Rs. 3 Crores + (Almost half million $)

3 Bedroom Hall Kitchen : Rs. 4 Crores + (More than half million $)

• Crumbling Infrastructure and shoddy construction.

This happened during the recent monsoon at a residential complex which was a fairly new construction. And the blame game goes on forever.

I can go on and on with what is wrong with Mumbai, but that being said, having lived in Mumbai all my life, I would never trade places with any other city.

• The variety of food for everyone.

• Awesome Public Transportation.

Local Trains : The City’s Lifeline.

• Mumbai Nightlife

• Has it’s own open spaces and greenery.

• Has it’s own beaches.

Manori Beach

Juhu Beach

Girguam Chowpatty Beach

• The City that never sleeps and is safest for women as compared to most of India.

As I always keep saying:

“Mumbai is like a drug, one whiff of it and you will always keep coming back for more and be addicted for life.”

Pravasi Meet Thanks for the A2A

Pic Credits : Cellphone camera and Google Images

What is wrong with Indian Politics?

 Beware the ghost of Zail Singh - India's former president

Giani Zail Singh was a former President. He had Z security. He announced in Delhi - In April 1987, Zail Singh revealed in a press confrence and personaly to Khushwant Singh that "Tomorrow I am going to reveal all the secrets of ‘Bofors scandal’( Indian-Sweden arms deal) and will name all big guns of Indian Politics." However, due to ‘unknown reasons’ he kept quiet and vanished for 7 years. He stayed away from press, public and private appearance.

After May 21, 1992( first death anniversary of India's former prime minister), he gave hints of revealing the names again, however, he mysteriously vanished again for two years.

Finally, on November 29 1994, when he announced the press that he will reveal all the “secrets and scandals of Bofors deal upon reaching Chandigarh”…

His bullet proof car( protocol for all former presidents and prime ministers) was hit by a speeding truck. Coincidentally, his Z security was reduced that day, coincidentally, his ambulance( again a protocol for the caravan of supreme leaders) was parked miles away, coincidentally, the truck was speeding on the wrong side, coincidentally, Sukhjinder singh, the truck driver, was released a week after and never found

Coincidentally, the ambulance took almost two hours to reach, coincidentally, he was taken to PGI hospital and was admitted there for almost a month before he succumbed to fatal injuries on December 25, 1994

Coincidentally, no one from his political party visited the hospital to learn about his well-being. Coincidentally, he was never shifted to any reputed hospital in Delhi or elsewhere. Coincidentally, his diary, which had all the names and details of Bofors Scandal, was never found including many other official papers. Coincidentally, the investigation was closed the next day of his death. Coincidentally, Sukhjinder singh moved to Canada with his entire family on December 29, 1994

Coincidentally keep smiling

Coincidentally keep shining

Coincidentally green chillies to many

What is wrong with Nasiruddin Shah?

 Naseeruddin Shah's ego is just too much. The way he constantly talks down about popular actors and their acting, that's exactly what's wrong with him.

Back in 1986 when Karma was about to release…

Many newspapers reported that Naseeruddin Shah said "We'll teach Dilip kumar how to act"

If true, that was a huge ego trip.

Basically Naseer was hell bent on some way, making it official that he'd given Dilip kumar a competition.

Dilip Kumar, being a wise and intelligent man, reportedly avoided any major face to face scenes with him….

Though there are a few scenes in the film where both of them appear together, but for most of those scenes their shots were taken separately and then merged together in editing.

And later in an interview Naseer said "that's why I've never watched Karma in my life and never will"

That's the problem with Naseer, he's a genuinely great actor, but he keeps throwing shade at popular actors. He's done this multiple times. He seems to think popular actors are overrated, which isn't always true.

What is something movies always get wrong?

 Bunch of thieves rob a bank. One of the thieves fills a sports bag with 30+ gold bars and subsequently runs away.

The “subsequently” is the part the movies always get wrong.

A standard gold bar weights 12.4 kilograms (more than 25 pounds), meaning that the thief just ran away with a bag weighing more than 372 kilograms (820 pounds). In real life, the thieve only can run away with a couple of bars — apparently every single member of the gang skipped Physics or Chemistry class (or maybe even Mathematics) when things got interesting.

Gold has a density of 19.3 /, making it actually one of the heaviest materials on Earth, and one of the very worst materials to try to steal.

So know your Science when you write up a movie script (even if about robbing a bank) —

And don’t ever forget about Gravity.

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SOURCES: Szaaman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What is wrong with Bollywood?

 1. Nepotism

When it comes to identifying the wrong in Bollywood, nepotism grabs all eyes. The word itself says everything. Be it Sonam Kapoor who, in the name of struggle, just lost some weight and grabbed a movie or be it Ananya Pandey, who inspite of her extremely bad acting skills, got her second offer even before the release of her first movie. Athiya Shetty, Sooraj Pancholi, Shradhha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, Janhavi Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Arjun Kapoor…..there is a big list of these starkids who don’t have the required skillset but are still persisting in the industry because afterall, their parents have done great movies in their time.

No doubt, some of them have made a mark (Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sara Ali Khan) but I think the real struggle in Bollywood starts the day an aspiring actor steps in Mumbai with no connections in the industry at all. I mean look at some of these faces!

How many of them, inspite of their well praised acting in their debut films, have got back to back movie offers?

But for these starkids, there exists some names like Karan Johar and Salman Khan who never fails to give these “so called strugglers” a chance to showcase their hereditary talent.

2. Obsession with fair skin and surgeries

Take a look at the photographs of these actresses before and after their surgeries!

Aint these pictures shocking?

It seems as if you are seeing two different persons in the same photograph. Some have gone for a lip surgery and others for a skin lightening treatment. How ironical it is that on one hand, actors like Kangana Ranaut refused a 2 crore endorsement ad for a fairness cream and on the other hand, she herself has undergone lip surgery to improvise her looks. This obsession with good looks has made the common people think of themselves as inferior, as if they lack something and they try to copy the stars. Bollywood needs to agree to the fact that looks are not everything. An actor is born to act good and not look good!

3. Fake award shows

Almost everyone would agree to this fact about the fake award shows in Bollywood. This is the reason why Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan doesn't go to the award shows anymore since 1995.
The fakeness in these award shows could be sensed from this fact. It was the event for Filmfare 2016 and for the best male debut, there were 5 nominations:

• Shashank Arora — Titli
• Vicky Kaushal — Masaan
• Sooraj Pancholi — Hero
• Sunny Singh — Pyaar ka punchnama 2
• Omkar Kapoor — Pyaar ka punchnama 2

And guess who got the award? None other than Sooraj Pancholi (son of Aditya Pancholi). And that too over Vicky Kaushal. If it would have been any of the other three, people would have believed that. But, in case of Sooraj Pancholi, it was a big no!

And even more disappointing was to watch Athiya Shetty bagging the best female debut award!!

4. Objectification of women

Have a look at these songs.

Merely by looking at these pictures, one can start muttering these item numbers but have you ever stopped for a moment and checked into their lyrics?

These item songs are nowhere behind in promoting vulgarity and objectification of a woman's body. Still they exist as they are a promotional necessity for the movie and are prevalent in the film industry since the times of “Helen”. Long time, no?

5. Gender Discrimination
It's a well known fact that women are paid less than men in most of the professions and even Bollywood doesn't deny this fact. For the same movie, females are paid much lesser (sometimes not even half) than their male counterparts.
Not just this, there are so many movies that use women centric dialogues as a source of laughter. Remember the one from Jab we met?

6. Casting couch

Well this is not a new story in this industry. It is happening for almost a decade and many famous actresses have accepted the fact that it has happened to them as well and this practice is still prevalent in the industry. Kangana Ranaut, Tisca Chopra, Kalki Koechlin and Sunny Leone, to name a few. And not just women, it has happened even with some well known self made actors like Ranveer Singh, Ayushman Khurana and Sidhharth Malhotra.

So, you might have got an idea why most of the middle class parents don't support their children to be an actor.

7. Trend of remixes

Remember this song from Delhi 6 composed by the well known singer and music composer A.R. Rehman?

That was perhaps the only good thing in the movie. The song has been remixed recently to a video song Masakali 2.0 starring Sidhharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria. It has gained much views but is still not as mesmerizing as the original one. A.R. Rahman even tweeted about this showing his disappointment.

Just like this, there are so many Bollywood songs including Aankh Maare, Laila Main Laila and Saara Zamaana that were not effective in getting the same hype that their original ones got.

8. Stealing other's ideas

There is a whole lot of movies that have been copied either from Hollywood or from a South Indian movie. You name it and there exists an exact copy of that somewhere else.

Salman Khan's Bharat is an exact copy of a Korean movie "An ode to my father". Agneepath's concept was taken from a Hollywood movie "Scarface". Kabir Singh was a Xerox of the South Indian blockbuster Arjun Reddy. Even DDLJ that stayed at Maratha Mandir for 23 years was a copy of famous Hollywood movie "The sure thing".

Now you must have got the idea about the originality of these movies.

Some of the recent movies have included the famous Punjabi songs in them. Believe it or not, the original Punjabi song videos are way too better than the Bollywood ones. They just act as an unnecessary part of the movie to increase the popularity of movie even before its release.