Living up to rocket boys' dreams

Indeed, we need to do a lot more on N-power generation and make Bhabha's dream come true

“You don’t have to feel guilty for your ambitions, Sarabhai,” Homi J Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) tells Vikram A Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh) in SonyLIV’s Rocket Boys as he tries to dissuade the astronomer from starting the Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association, and pushes him to focus on his dream to launch India’s first sounding rocket.

As the eight-episode series explores the friendship between the two legendary scientists — while one is the father of the Indian nuclear programme (Bhabha), the other is the pioneer of India's space research (Sarabhai) — and their ambitions, this column looks to retrace how far we, as