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Hidden Truths in the ISRO Spy Case

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Written by: J. Rajasekharan Nair
Narrated by: Sundip Ved
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Did you know that the CIA had sabotaged ISRO’s top secret operation to transfer cryogenic rocket technology from Russia to India? Ever wondered what is the real reason why S. Nambi Narayanan does not want the whole truth behind the ISRO spy story to surface?

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was rocked by a spy case in 1994, taking down in its wake six persons who were a part of the organisation, including S. Nambi Narayanan. They were blamed with passing critical rocket technology to a neighbouring nation and booked for the same. Classified exposes the hidden truths behind the spy story and how it highlighted the fractures of our premier institutions. It shows us how the spy case stripped them bare, down to their bones. Listen to this intriguing account of how state agencies are surreptitiously trying to bury the wreckage of a failed operation.

©2022 J. Rajasekharan Nair (P)2022 Audible, Inc. Asia
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I liked listening to this book coz I usually like to know main stream and counter views to any narrative especially to the one that blindly eulogizes one person making him God. language is easy, pace is engaging and narration is apt. together everyone has produced this very good book. I wonder though what prevented ISRO chairman to check jurisdictional validity of Kerala police in this Central govt prestigious organisation. that must be answered and due role and responsibility fixed at the highest level.

an intriguing and counter narrative

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The author wastes huge time again and again saying the same thing. Plus what is the logic in repeating the IPc sections every time. He has a gudge in Nambi Narayan and that keeps showing up.

Beating around the bush....v repeatative

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After reading (listening to) the audiobook on Telgi by an investigative journalist, I went with great hopes in this book. It disappointed me thoroughly. This is one of the rare books that I discontinued mid-way being left completely lost in the maze created by the author. All Indians in the know wanted to get a close account of what actually happened in a very simple and interesting way. This book is exactly opposite. Swinging between the lower courts to High Court and to the supreme Court again and again, it leaves the reader clueless as to what the author is referring to. He forgets the basic principle of a good author - the latter must be able to connect and remain connected with the reader. He may know many things about the matter on hand, He may have lots of data but does that data get translated simply enough to the reader who does not know anything? Suddenly the scene shifts from the lower court to the high court orders and before you can make the sense of what is happening it swings to The Supreme Court and then swinging again like a monkey on a tree to the lower courts or the high court. This left me completely exasperated. As if that was not enough on (Jain) commission pops up and the author gets one more tool to confuse the reader. Even the accused are referred to so amorphously (except for Nambi Narayanan) that which Malayali ISRO Officer he is referring to and which police personnel is he referring to is a maze. As if this was not enough some words are referred to loosely with different meanings in different pages - for example the word Act - at some places it is in the legal jargon and in other it is referred to as drama.

In many audiobooks that I read (more than 75 from Audible in last 5 years alone) the narrator saves some show. But here Sundip Ved seems to have joined J. Rajasekharan Nair (the author) in making things worst.

I am sure all involved in making of this book must have worked very hard but in the end they have missed the bus. One of the most invalid book in my opinion in recent times of my reading (listening).

Most confusing and very disappointing

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