An Apple Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

No, It's not a fruit
Not the name of a person
Not a company
That makes smart phones, computers ….
It's the first Indian communication satellite
And its (APPLE) full name is
Ariane Passenger Pay Load Experiment.

It started journey on a bullock cart
And reached to the space
In high speed, riding on a rocket
PM Indira Gandhi dedicated it
to the nation
On 13 August 1981
Just after two days
her Independence Day address
from red fort
Was carried out live
Throughout the country
by APPLE...... for first time.

It was the start
India (ISRO) did not looked back
After placing APPLE in orbit
From it's Bangalore control centre
APPLE functioned two years
As designed
Laid the foundation of growth for India
Both technological and economical
And it spurred the space technology
Within 32 years
India reached to the moon
And the beautiful Red Planet (Mars)
Just after US and Russia
India is the first nation in the world
to do so in its first attempt.

An apple changed the life
of Adam and Eve
An apple changed Newton's mind
And an APPLE changed the strength of
India's backbone.