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1 1024, New Haven, Dasanapura Hobli, Off Tumkur Road, Near Golden Palms Hotel, Bengaluru 562 123, IN
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Current Science, Vol 118, No 8 (2020), Pagination: 1190
Abstract
On 12 August 1919, a baby boy was born in the home of Ahmedabad’s leading textile mill-owner; his siblings looked at him and declared he had big ears, ‘just like Gandhiji’, which they wanted to fold like betel leaves. The baby was Vikram Sarabhai. Monday marks the birth centenary of this remarkable figure, even as Chandrayaan-2, steadily surging towards the moon shines a light on the Indian space programme which he founded.
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