Barely a decade after its independence in 1947 preceded by nearly two centuries of colonial plunder, India, quite remarkably, began taking tentative steps toward what is now an important global hub of space sciences and spacefaring.
Chronicling India’s extraordinary journey as a country on decades-long engagement with space is the well-known science journalist and writer Dinesh Sharma 
Sharma has just published his richly detailed book ‘Space: The India Story’ that offers readers a ringside view of how the country’s pursuit of space as a source of transformative science has evolved. He spoke to MCR from New Delhi.

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