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The death of Homi J. Bhabha - In 2026, India has officially entered the second stage of its three-stage nuclear power programme, a vision first conceived by Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha. Imagine if he was still alive, here's what Indira Gandhi said "To lose Dr Homi Bhabha at this crucial moment in the development of our atomic energy programme is a terrible blow for our nation. He had his most creative years ahead of him. When we take up the unfinished work he has left behind, we will realize in how many fields he served us. For me, it is a personal loss. I shall miss his wide-ranging mind and many talents, his determination to strengthen our country’s science and enthusiastic interest in life’s many facets. We mourn a great son of India."
The fake spy scandal involving Nambi Narayanan - Fck America, Dr. Narayanan was the visionary who laid the foundation. His pioneering work on the Vikas engine and cryogenic technology remains the technological backbone of our powerful launch vehicles like the PSLV and LVM3. We could have achieved all this before the 2000s if not for the fake honey trap scandal that enveloped him, essentially jeopardizing his entire career. Also fk Siby Mathews and the Malayalam newspaper Malayala Manorama, who played a major role in sensationalising and politicising the allegations made against the scientists.
The burning of SCL - Imagine if India actually fabricated it's chips, On February 7, 1989, an unexplained fire at the Semiconductor Complex Limited (SCL) in Mohali, Chandigarh, destroyed the facility’s main production line. Established in 1976 to build indigenous Indian chips, SCL began production in 1984 and was manufacturing 5000-nanometre (nm) chips, just one generation behind global standards at the time. This was only 13 years after Intel introduced the world’s first commercially available microprocessor and three years before chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) began production. Despite being a state-owned enterprise, SCL had made impressive strides. It was also engaged in research and development, working on more advanced semiconductors. The fire scorched that vision.
The story of HAL-Marut - Imagine building Asia's first indegenious jet fighter and messing it up. The biggest problem? India couldn’t source a powerful enough engine. HAL had to settle for underpowered Rolls-Royce Orpheus turbojets, originally meant for subsonic aircraft. These engines couldn’t push the Marut past the speed of sound, keeping it limited to around Mach 0.93. This turned a potentially groundbreaking supersonic fighter into a subsonic ground-attack jet, killing its original ambition before takeoff. Worse, When Kurt Tank proposed the HF-73 (some of the most advanced designs of the time) which required engines three times more powerful, global suppliers weren’t willing to export advanced engines to India during the Cold War in fear that India would advance it's capabilities beyond some of the western contemporaries.
The decline of Air India - Imagine have the world's first (yes, you heard that right) all-jet airline and being one of the finest examples of Luxury Air travel. In 1971, the airline took delivery of its first Boeing 747-200B named Emperor Ashoka (registered VT-EBD) and introduced a new Palace in the Sky livery and branding, some of the very first airlines in the world to do so. J.R.D Tata, the visionary behing this, the man who once rolled up his sleeve and helped the crew clean a toilet, was humiliatingly fired by PM Morarji Desai (Yes, that guy) over the simple difference of opinion of whether alcohol should be served on Airline.

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Some of the greatest losses to the Republic of India.