Everyone looks at the #UNIVERSE through his/her own Colored Glasses...

I wrote this 10-11 years ago when Human of Bharat was not very enthusiastic about ISRO. 

Now, it has changed. People are aware of the contribution of ISRO - from GPS satellite to Mangalayan to Chandrayan.

Then I used to think why the phenomenal success of ISRO just only remains as the page 5 or page 6 item of a newspaper... may be the reason lies elsewhere...

Everyone likes to see the world through his own colored glasses. These glasses are colored by the successes, joys, and failures of one's own life. Let me try to elaborate it a bit with a practical example... 

One day we were gifted a bed cover by one of our relatives... Once my wife opened the packet, she was happy and said it was very nice in looks... I commented that it must be very costly... and the maid who was present at that time commented that the color won't fade away after a few washing... 

so it was the same object... however our first reaction to that object was totally different... because we tried to look at that from our own colored glasses...

So for a farmer, the arrival of monsoon is important... for a daily worker, the means to commute to his workplace is important... for a daily passenger of the Mumbai train, the train schedule is important... for a daily roadside hawker, the way he handles the cops is important... for a daily office goer, the less congested road is important...and as most of the Indian population is constituted by these people, they hardly bother about any achievements attained by ISRO.

People fail to see themselves against the background of ISRO's success... when our country was reeling under the license-permit raj and the associated corruption, the ordinary people were able to relate themselves with the angry young man image of Big B. when India wins a cricket match, the common citizens of Bharat viewed it as the victory of their own over the rest of the world...

Any scientific innovation, it gets due importance only if it is able to create a big societal impact... That's the reason probably, Windows became popular quite some time back... And that's the only reason, probably Google has become a blue-eyed company in this internet age...

So for ISRO to make news on the front page of the newspaper, we must try to change our priorities...

Otherwise, every big achievement of ISRO will be greeted with "To kya hua" by the common people...

So, for the image on the top - how do you interpret it...

Maybe, I will view it as an Electronics engineer saying

"Guys...

you heat up the #twitter space. 

Never mind...

My heat sink is perfect now"

Maybe my wife would say like 

(as we had a verbal chit-chat yesterday)

hey Som, it does not matter what you do with your brain and brawn, if the kitchen sink is OFF, you guys are all gone from the scene...

So, everyone sees the #UNIVERSE with his own colored glasses.

This is the universal #TRUTH