Star Trek

India's fascination with the stars continues to inspire curiosity and exploration

- By TANISHA SAXENA

They have been there for millennia, before the earth was born, taking light years to reach us. For all you know, that shining, twinkling object in the firmament that fascinates us has been dead for Ages; its light reaching us only aeons later. Stars are the wonders of the universe, observed from a distance as the alphabets of the night sky, the hieroglyphs of mystics and the portals of astronomers who study time and distance. Recently, the skies of Delhi were so polluted that taki