As we cel­e­brate In­di­an Ar­rival Day in the 50th year of our na­tion's in­de­pen­dence, one should pay homage to the of­ten mar­gi-nalised con­tri­bu­tion of Dr Rudra-nath Capildeo to build­ing our na­tion. While he was a ma­jor po­lit­i­cal play­er in our strides to be­com­ing an in­de­pen­dent na­tion, this is by no means what he should sole­ly be re­mem­ber for.

The world re­mem­bers him for the aca­d­e­m­ic colos­sus that he was, whose the­o­ries on elas­tic­i­ty were in­stru­men­tal in the ear­ly days of space trav­el. We should be so blessed in this coun­try to have some­one like him ris­ing up from the strug­gles of in­den­ture­ship, and he should be revered as the na­tion­al hero that he was. Our youth need to be re­mind­ed of his con­tri­bu­tion so they could as­pire to his lev­el of ex­cel­lence.

Ri­car­do Jimenez

Diego Mar­tin