Gurbir Singh: 3 books
by Gurbir Singh
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Title: The Indian Space Program
Subtitle: The incredible story of India’s journey from the Third World towards the First using space technology
In the last 50 years, India has quietly established an indigenous infrastructure to build, launch and operate spacecraft. Collectively the...
Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing
Beyond Trishanku
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in...
by Gurbir Singh
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
he first human spaceflight on 12th April 1961 shocked the West and made cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the most famous person on the planet. As one of human civilisation's seminal accomplishments it was borne out of technology designed for weapons of mass destruction. Following the launch of Sputnik in 1957,...