Click to play videoBangalore: Celebrating Diwali with firecrackers for many is the best way to enjoy the festival. But what about those people who launch the real rockets, the rockets that send satellites to moon and make all of us proud? How do they celebrate their Diwali?
M Annadurai, the project director of the Chandrayaan 1 mission, has a busy day ahead but since its Diwali, he will have to make sometime for the celebrations.
His wife Vasanthi and son Gokul would join him at the Diwali puja to pray for prosperity, happiness and, of course, Chandrayaan.
“Diwali means a new hope and any new baby is a new hope. From the ISRO point of view, Chandrayaan is the hope for the new era. The spacecraft is still on the way to the moon and November 8 is when it will reach there. So on Diwali, it has only completed half its journey,” Annadurai says.
The Chandrayaan mission has taken over Annadurai's life. Even on Diwali, the project director left home for office early in the morning. But the celebrations at home continue as his wife Vasanthi hits the kitchen to prepare all those Diwali delicacies. Since Annadurai happens to have a sweet tooth, the emphasis is on all those tasty payasams.
So the payasams get made and the Diwali diyas get lit. It’s an all in all a simple yet perfect Diwali for a man whose projects make us all proud to be an Indian.
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