Past, present and future. or are they all the same??

So now we have aimed for the moon with an unmanned space shuttle which will stay in orbit for 2 years and study the origins of the solar system. Chandrayaan (journey to the moon) launched this morning at 6.28 am IST. It will take 5.5 days to get into orbit around the beautiful satellite. It is a rainy, Wednesday morning here (it still pours!) - one could not even see the rocket a few seconds after it launched because it disappeared among the clouds. It is India'a maiden mission to the moon. All four phases of the launch went off flawlessly this morning.
I can just envision more romantic poetry to come out of this exercise - :) as fodder for Bollywood. We do need more data on the moon to incorporate into our Bollywood songs - dont we?
We may also make use of scientific data on why the human race can sustain in some parts of the solar system and whether we can find some real estate to sell on the moon. With no hope for a better life in Bangalore, we need new spaces to invade and mess up with unplanned urban growth.
In the same breath, last night the Maharashtra government (where Bollywood is located) found the balls to arrest and jail Raj Thackerey with a non-bailable warrant - he is also known as the Indian Hitler. He has been spending the last few weeks inciting his mob of hooligans to prove how superior his race is compared to the rest of India - by burning effigies of other political leaders. His essential ploy is based on communal divide and he hopes to find power when the whole country has disintegrated into chaos based on religion, caste and cult. He has taken on other powerful politicians by bad mouthing them and their origins. He even managed to piss off the doyen - Lalu Prasad - who called to chop off his head- in a very Marie Antoinette-esque style.
BTW, this guy and his cult took over Maharashtra (my homeland) around 1995, a year after I left home (see what happens when I am not around to give him a piece of my mind?). Seriously, I have always felt it all went downhill from there - starting with their dim-witted initiative to rename Bombay as Mumbai to 'preserve our cultural heritage' (baloney!), and enforcing a curfew time of 11.30 pm on clubs and pubs because it is against the eastern culture to party at night (whatever!- he seems to have missed the Kamasutra age). It is time that we officially moved into the 21st century - which, of course, will have no room for Hitler.
So while, our scientists and our intelligensia are trying to project us into the future -- it is the Raj Thackereys of the country that may actually be having the maximum impact on the masses - engaging in the true and tested, age old tactics of divide and rule. And the masses dont see through it or question it. Good for Thakerey - he can power on! After all, this is what defines leadership capabilities, does'nt it?