Up in the air i witnessed a blazing fire being spewed by a stick like object in an upward trajectory...
One moment i thought i was dreaming. I realized I'm far away from my cubicle or to be sure i'm not even in my office. I'm in the middle of chennai's infamous traffic waiting for my bus to crawl,so i'm not snoozing.... This must be real.....
Looking up i started reminisicing my past, my first rocket launch.I was 8 and my sister 10. In the process of celebrating our first independence to handle crackers along with Diwali without our ever protecting parents.
After getting bored with few kind,the young astronauts picked up the rocket found a base in a mound of sand rather than a glass bottle or tin as we were young innovators even at that age implementing our out-of-box thinking. Self Kudos to us :-)
As every great people would have got some misadventure we weren't an exception. Our rocket rather than just following the path reaching the sky, it grazed the shining head of a baldy uncle and what follwed was an explosion by him to my parents. Needless to say we were grounded forever and till today remain under their watchguards.
Luckily there was no misadventure this time. The PSLV-C 20 successfully launched SARAL in the orbit.
The lesson learned at the end of the day was not to launch rockets when there is a bald uncle in the park :)
