Everybody knows about Sunita Williams. Then, what do you want me to say about her? I cannot be an American if I were to have ‘James’ as my name; Sunita cannot be an Indian either. If you say anything more than this such as Indian origin etc., you are a fool!
Sunita Williams is stuck in space for the last 290 days (and counting) or say over 9 months! Has she broken the record? Probably she may have. I do not care. What I care is the cursed life of Sunita Williams. The profession that has given all name & fame so far, may take her very life or may make her as living dead very soon. However, we all hope for her safe return, though the chances are slim.
Some other idiot in the social media was yelling…Sunita is going to get a huge lot of money from NASA. This stupid person has ignored many things. Who else can spend 290 days in space or hanging out there but a cursed person? For many across the globe her story may appear appealing, romantic and adventurous, but the fact is it is not. She is a cursed lady living a cursed life. She is neither on earth not in space. She is neither living nor dead.
Only a cursed person can go around the earth 16 times in 24 hours! In other words, this poor Sunita is going around the earth 16 times a day! She is travelling 16 times faster than the speed of earth’s rotation! Now do not tell me the same old bullshit, from space the earth looks beautiful etc. I do not know what Sunita Williams will be thinking, but I do know that in that no man’s god forbidden place she must be loudly wailing her heart out for her misfortune. I am also sure she would not wish her luck even to her arch enemy!
What beauty will you find from 400 km up above the earth? That is exactly is that place where you have to struggle to pee and the less, I talk of the other natural works the better! That confined floating place called International Space Station (ISS) must be called and very rightly as the ‘International Hell Station’. Science, Technology and experiments in space…what are you yapping of? I know from my religious priest that bad people go to hell. I wonder about the extent of bad deeds committed by Sunita Williams to deserve a punishment like this!
In a year, a normal person can see 365 sunrises & 365 sunsets. But Sunita Williams has already seen 4640 sunrises and an equal number of sunsets in a span of 290 days. I wonder, what sin can get her this punishment? The sunrise is no more beautiful. It is a curse for anyone to see 16 sunrises a day!
Full moon may look good is seen from ISS couple of times. I can well understand the feeling of astronaut Sultan AI Neyadi, who shared a stunning photo of the July 2023 Super Moon. For Sultan AI Neyadi it looked beautiful because it was a one-time affair. Ask Sunita Williams, she will tell you how ugly the moon can be, and especially the no moon day must be really terrifying for her. I am sure she must be floating while kneeling before her God and asking “Why Me?”
Since the name Sunita is a Hindu name, let me explain the meaning of this name. Sunita means ‘wise’, well guided and well-behaved. The origin of this name Sunita is in Sanskrit language. Is Sunita Williams wise or well guided? Cursed person Sunita is! Otherwise by seeing nearly 5000 sunrises, Sunita has spent 14 years of earthly life out there. This is to say, the sunrises this “woman with wild hair” would have seen in her normal 14 years of life had she been on planet earth, she has seen in just 290 days! Is she rushing towards old age? Or is she rushing towards the conclusion of life? We cannot but pity this cursed woman and wish for her safest return.
Hindu Mythology has a concept called “TRISHANKU SWARG” or ‘Trishanku Heaven’ or Heaven created by sage Vishwamitra for king Trishanku. Thrishanku was not admitted into the heaven. He was kicked out from heaven. He was simply hanging in between the heaven and the earth. So sage Vishvamitra created a separate heaven for Trishanku. Hence the name ‘Trishanku Heaven’. This is exactly the heaven we i.e., the people of science created for Sunita Williams. We proudly call it as the ‘ISS heaven’. This is where Sunita is presently hanging.
What will be the outcome? As I write this NASA’s Crew-10 mission docked at the ISS on Sunday at 9:40 AM IST, paving the way for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s long-awaited return. Will she come back? I do not know the answer. All I can do is to pray for her safe return and normal life.
Life is given to us once by this existence and no science or technology is worth our life. I believe to say that we all are believing in the science a little too much.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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