{"id":354897,"date":"2025-07-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354897"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T05:54:37","slug":"india-still-looks-the-best-in-the-world-says-shubhanshu-shukla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-still-looks-the-best-in-the-world-says-shubhanshu-shukla\/","title":{"rendered":"India still looks the best in the world, says Shubhanshu Shukla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/India-still-looks-the-best-in-the-world-says-Shubhanshu-Shukla.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/India-still-looks-the-best-in-the-world-says-Shubhanshu-Shukla.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/India-still-looks-the-best-in-the-world-says-Shubhanshu-Shukla-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Shukla and three other astronauts of the Axiom-4 mission expected early morning Tuesday<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts of the Axiom-4 mission are set to begin their return journey to Earth on Monday after a 18-day sojourn at the International Space Station. They are expected to return &nbsp;in early hours of Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cArrival back to earth\u2026. splashdown scheduled for 15th July at 3:00 PM IST,\u201d Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a formal farewell for the Axiom-4 crew on Sunday evening, India time, Shukla said today\u2019s India from space looks ambitious, fearless, confident, and full of pride. Because of these reasons, I am telling you again, \u2018Aaj ka Bharat abhi bi sare jahan se acha dikhta hai\u2019, endorsing the thoughts of Rakesh Sharma\u2014the first Indian in space &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cForty-one years ago, an Indian went to space, and he also described how India looks from above, and you all want to know how India looks from here. Let me tell you, today\u2019s India from space looks ambitious, fearless, confident, and full of pride. Because of these reasons, I am telling you again, \u2018Aaj ka Bharat abhi bi sare jahan se acha dikhta hai\u2019 (today\u2019s India still looks the best in the world). Let\u2019s meet on Earth soon,\u201d Shukla said at a farewell ceremony on the ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cMy journey [to the ISS] is going to get over. But your and my journey is still on; the journey of our human space mission is a long and also difficult one. But I can assure that if we are determined, even stars are attainable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shukla and three other astronauts of the Axiom-4 mission expected early morning Tuesday Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts of the Axiom-4 mission are set to begin their return journey to Earth on Monday after a 18-day sojourn at the International Space Station. They are expected to return &nbsp;in early hours of Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19956,19955,19770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354900,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354897\/revisions\/354900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}