Isro scientist nambi narayanan

IMAGE: From left: R Madhavan, standing, with Dr S Nambi Narayanan at a screening of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar The case that appears to be a single case is a multi-layered and complex federation of mini-narratives in which timing of intersections, concinnity of melodramas, entry of the dramatis personae, and their eloquent silences were so neatly trimmed, timed, and fused that they unfolded like a single end to end espionage story. So, there is the CIA that had been waiting for the opportune moment to derail India's cryogenic dreams by hook or crook; an inspector of the Kerala police who wanted to save his skin that he painted a semi-literate Maldivian woman as the spy who had come to destabilise India's defence organisations; a newspaper editor who wanted to take revenge on an arrogant politician and his blue-eyed IPS officer; a few top-level CIA moles in the Intelligence Bureau who planted what the CIA had fabricated; some top-ranking police officers of the Kerala police, including the DGP and a DIG, acting under the dictation of IB, thanks to its extra-constitutional authority nobody dares to question; the media-savvy A K Antony group in Kerala unit of the Congress party and its unscrupulous group managers who wanted to do away with one of Kerala's most popular leaders so that its idealist leader could occupy the chief minister's chair; and the gluttony media that regurgitated the rotten feeds fed to them by the police and the politicians a...

It took him 24 years to clear his name in a spy scandal case. On September 14, the Supreme Court held that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Nambi Narayanan was the victim of a criminal frame-up based on “some kind of fancy or notion.” A three-judge Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said the Kerala police had trumped up allegations of espionage against the scientist. What is the case? On November 30, 1994, Mr. Narayanan was produced before the magistrate court in Thiruvananthapuram by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Kerala police on the charge of trading India’s space secrets to foreign agents for money and other enticements. What was his position? Mr. Narayanan, then 50, was the head of the ISRO’s promising Cryogenics Division and was on the ascendant in the organisation. More importantly, he was part of a group of top scientists whom the ISRO had tasked to scout for the cryogenic technology to propel the space programme to greater heights. Why was he shamed? Outside the court that day in 1994, the crowd grew restive as it spotted Mr. Narayanan hunkered down between officers in a police van. Salacious stories in the media about how a tall, athletic woman from the Maldives, Mariam Rasheeda, ostensibly working for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, had enticed top ISRO scientists into selling her secret rocket technology triggered indignation. The mob greeted Mr. Narayanan with boos, jeers and catcalls. The police threw a hum...

• • • • Former colleagues of Isro’s Nambi Narayanan question his claims in ‘Rocketry’ Former colleagues of Isro’s Nambi Narayanan question his claims in ‘Rocketry’ The scientists said Narayanan has been making false claims about his role in Isro, particularly regarding the development of cryogenics. A group of former scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) have come out against their former colleague Nambi Narayanan, who had been implicated in a false spy case of 1994 but was later exonerated by the CBI. The scientists said Narayanan has been making false claims about his role in Isro, particularly regarding the development of cryogenics. This comes at a time when a biographical drama film based on his life, titled ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, has hit the screens. Also Read | Addressing the media Wednesday, the scientists, led by founder director of LPSC at Isro Dr A E Muthunayagam said Narayanan has been making false claims over the years. Public seemed to be misled based on the input from Narayanan and the film. “We are forced to disclose certain things because Narayanan had insulted Isro and the scientists by making false claims in the movie and before the media,” he said. Muthunayagam was accompanied by D Sasikumaran, who too was falsely implicated in the spy case, Prof EVS Namboothiri, Sreedharan Das, Dr Adi Murthy and George Koshy, who were associated with the cryogenic project and LPSC at Isro. Muthunayagam said Narayanan’s propaganda that his a...

This article needs an improved You can provide one by ( July 2022) ( During the present time in a televised interview with actor Nambi starts with his experiences at the Nambi successfully completes his MSE program in chemical rocket propulsion under professor Luigi Crocco who recommends him for the At this point, Nambi strikes a deal with the French who need skilled scientists to help them build their own liquid fuel engine. He then moves to France with his colleagues, hoping to learn from France's advanced technology so that they may recreate it back in India. Unbeknownst to the French, Nambi and his 52 colleagues have learnt French before their journey but pretend to not understand them. After being kept out of their major discussions, Nambi's team tries to find a way to gain access to these meetings and test data. It is then that they discover that the French engine is faulty. Nambi uses this opportunity to gain access to the required data in exchange for fixing the engine. The team then returns to India and start working on building their own engine on liquid fuels. However, due to lack of resources, it takes 8 more years to complete. They test the engine at the same testing facility in France - it goes above the 135 pressure mark, and goes all the way to 180. Successful in his plans, Nambi returns to India after naming the engine VIKAS after Vikram Sarabhai, his mentor. Nambi's focus is now on cryogenic engines which he believes will make India competent to participa...

The espionage case, which involved multiple conspiracies, centered around seven people, who were accused of leaking out vital defense secrets. Broadly speaking, this was not a single case, but a series of cases that involved new characters as it unfolded over time. But, what is the case about, who is Nambi Narayanan, and why is it being talked about today? We explain. What is the ISRO Spy case and how it began? The ISRO spy case dates back to October 20, 1994, when the Kerala police registered a case against Mariam Rasheeda, a Maldivian national, under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act 1946 and Section 7 of the Foreigners Order, 1948. The initial charges were of overstaying in India following the cancellation of her flight to Maldives. Following interrogation, the police said that Rasheeda contacted ISRO space scientists who were suspected of having transferred cryogenic engine technology to Pakistan through her. The following month, police registered another case against ISRO scientists D Sasikumaran and Nambi Narayanan, Russian Space Agency Glavkosmos’s India representative Chandrasekhar, Maldivian national Fauzia Hassan, and Bangalore-based labour contractor S K Sharma. The case was initially probed by Inspector S Vijayan. A special team headed by DIG Siby Mathew arrested Narayanan and other accused. The case was that Narayanan and Sasikumaran had passed on secret documents to other countries, especially Pakistan. They accused Chandrasekhar, Sharma, and inspector-general...

The espionage case, which involved multiple conspiracies, centered around seven people, who were accused of leaking out vital defense secrets. Broadly speaking, this was not a single case, but a series of cases that involved new characters as it unfolded over time. But, what is the case about, who is Nambi Narayanan, and why is it being talked about today? We explain. What is the ISRO Spy case and how it began? The ISRO spy case dates back to October 20, 1994, when the Kerala police registered a case against Mariam Rasheeda, a Maldivian national, under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act 1946 and Section 7 of the Foreigners Order, 1948. The initial charges were of overstaying in India following the cancellation of her flight to Maldives. Following interrogation, the police said that Rasheeda contacted ISRO space scientists who were suspected of having transferred cryogenic engine technology to Pakistan through her. The following month, police registered another case against ISRO scientists D Sasikumaran and Nambi Narayanan, Russian Space Agency Glavkosmos’s India representative Chandrasekhar, Maldivian national Fauzia Hassan, and Bangalore-based labour contractor S K Sharma. The case was initially probed by Inspector S Vijayan. A special team headed by DIG Siby Mathew arrested Narayanan and other accused. The case was that Narayanan and Sasikumaran had passed on secret documents to other countries, especially Pakistan. They accused Chandrasekhar, Sharma, and inspector-general...

This article needs an improved You can provide one by ( July 2022) ( During the present time in a televised interview with actor Nambi starts with his experiences at the Nambi successfully completes his MSE program in chemical rocket propulsion under professor Luigi Crocco who recommends him for the At this point, Nambi strikes a deal with the French who need skilled scientists to help them build their own liquid fuel engine. He then moves to France with his colleagues, hoping to learn from France's advanced technology so that they may recreate it back in India. Unbeknownst to the French, Nambi and his 52 colleagues have learnt French before their journey but pretend to not understand them. After being kept out of their major discussions, Nambi's team tries to find a way to gain access to these meetings and test data. It is then that they discover that the French engine is faulty. Nambi uses this opportunity to gain access to the required data in exchange for fixing the engine. The team then returns to India and start working on building their own engine on liquid fuels. However, due to lack of resources, it takes 8 more years to complete. They test the engine at the same testing facility in France - it goes above the 135 pressure mark, and goes all the way to 180. Successful in his plans, Nambi returns to India after naming the engine VIKAS after Vikram Sarabhai, his mentor. Nambi's focus is now on cryogenic engines which he believes will make India competent to participa...

IMAGE: From left: R Madhavan, standing, with Dr S Nambi Narayanan at a screening of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. Photograph: Pradeep Bandekar The case that appears to be a single case is a multi-layered and complex federation of mini-narratives in which timing of intersections, concinnity of melodramas, entry of the dramatis personae, and their eloquent silences were so neatly trimmed, timed, and fused that they unfolded like a single end to end espionage story. So, there is the CIA that had been waiting for the opportune moment to derail India's cryogenic dreams by hook or crook; an inspector of the Kerala police who wanted to save his skin that he painted a semi-literate Maldivian woman as the spy who had come to destabilise India's defence organisations; a newspaper editor who wanted to take revenge on an arrogant politician and his blue-eyed IPS officer; a few top-level CIA moles in the Intelligence Bureau who planted what the CIA had fabricated; some top-ranking police officers of the Kerala police, including the DGP and a DIG, acting under the dictation of IB, thanks to its extra-constitutional authority nobody dares to question; the media-savvy A K Antony group in Kerala unit of the Congress party and its unscrupulous group managers who wanted to do away with one of Kerala's most popular leaders so that its idealist leader could occupy the chief minister's chair; and the gluttony media that regurgitated the rotten feeds fed to them by the police and the politicians a...

It took him 24 years to clear his name in a spy scandal case. On September 14, the Supreme Court held that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Nambi Narayanan was the victim of a criminal frame-up based on “some kind of fancy or notion.” A three-judge Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, said the Kerala police had trumped up allegations of espionage against the scientist. What is the case? On November 30, 1994, Mr. Narayanan was produced before the magistrate court in Thiruvananthapuram by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Kerala police on the charge of trading India’s space secrets to foreign agents for money and other enticements. What was his position? Mr. Narayanan, then 50, was the head of the ISRO’s promising Cryogenics Division and was on the ascendant in the organisation. More importantly, he was part of a group of top scientists whom the ISRO had tasked to scout for the cryogenic technology to propel the space programme to greater heights. Why was he shamed? Outside the court that day in 1994, the crowd grew restive as it spotted Mr. Narayanan hunkered down between officers in a police van. Salacious stories in the media about how a tall, athletic woman from the Maldives, Mariam Rasheeda, ostensibly working for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, had enticed top ISRO scientists into selling her secret rocket technology triggered indignation. The mob greeted Mr. Narayanan with boos, jeers and catcalls. The police threw a hum...

• • • • Former colleagues of Isro’s Nambi Narayanan question his claims in ‘Rocketry’ Former colleagues of Isro’s Nambi Narayanan question his claims in ‘Rocketry’ The scientists said Narayanan has been making false claims about his role in Isro, particularly regarding the development of cryogenics. A group of former scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) have come out against their former colleague Nambi Narayanan, who had been implicated in a false spy case of 1994 but was later exonerated by the CBI. The scientists said Narayanan has been making false claims about his role in Isro, particularly regarding the development of cryogenics. This comes at a time when a biographical drama film based on his life, titled ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’, has hit the screens. Also Read | Addressing the media Wednesday, the scientists, led by founder director of LPSC at Isro Dr A E Muthunayagam said Narayanan has been making false claims over the years. Public seemed to be misled based on the input from Narayanan and the film. “We are forced to disclose certain things because Narayanan had insulted Isro and the scientists by making false claims in the movie and before the media,” he said. Muthunayagam was accompanied by D Sasikumaran, who too was falsely implicated in the spy case, Prof EVS Namboothiri, Sreedharan Das, Dr Adi Murthy and George Koshy, who were associated with the cryogenic project and LPSC at Isro. Muthunayagam said Narayanan’s propaganda that his a...