National Technology Day

A dream is not that which you see while sleeping ,it is something that does not let you sleep

— Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Look around you, each one of us is living in a period where we can’t be seen without a gadget in our hands, be it a mobile phone, an ear pod or a laptop or even the virtual assistant helping the robotic mop in cleaning the house, or a self driven car taking us to our destination, technology surrounds every nook of our lives. With the onset of the 20th century we are eyeing the future of never ending innovation that would either lead us to our end or to a new beginning. When we look toward these new creations, innovations and progressions, we recall those ordinary things that made life simpler and more associated.

Every year on May 11 India celebrates the achievements and contributions of Indian scientist for bringing it at par with the world and commensurates the day as The National Technology Day. This Day of 1998 validates the successful commemoration of Pokhran nuclear trial series thereby taking India's technological advancements to nuclear space.

Pokhran atomic tests were a progression of five nuclear bomb test explosions led by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range. On May 11, 1998, India effectively terminated Operation Shakti rocket at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan, the first among the five nuclear tests in Pokhran.

The test was driven by aeronautics designer and late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Afterward, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee proclaimed India a nuclear state, making it the 6th nation in the world to join the 'Nuclear club'. Subsequently, since 1999, May 11 is praised as "National Technology Day".

India attempted its first nuclear excursion on September 7, 1972, when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi approved researchers to explode a natively planned nuclear gadget.

The highlight of the test was that India gave a skip to all intelligence agencies and went undetected even by the United States of America. The American covert agents on the ground and in the sky, some of which even cost more than $1 billion failed to focus on what was truly happening on a hot summer day deep inside an Indian desert, even in the wake of taking pictures with high-resolution cameras and snooping on media communications with electronic ears. The Indian researchers masked the exercises, and dust storms which is a normal element in the desert during peak summer season, darkened the site and led India to make its mark on the World nuclear map.

The activity was totally a secret, simply known to a couple concerned. May 11, 1998, was a usual horrid hot summer day for Jaisalmer until the city shook by an enormous thunder, a loud cheer from the researchers at the site and behind the clouds was a proud country waving its path into new innovations and hurling the use of technology.

With the wittiest brains of India our very own Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in agreement with the then Prime Minister Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee this was a rather optimistic and reassuring project, eventually introducing India to a new era of technology.

Congratulating every Indian on the 22nd National Technology Day.