THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
“With freedom, books, flowers and the Moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde O scar Wilde was not an astronaut… He wrote beautiful plays, prose and poetry. And, when he lived on this planet, neither Man nor Machine had landed on the Moon. So, the Moon, always, remained a beauty at a distance… always inspiring and captivating. And, for people like me – despite many Moon-missions by Man and machines – the Moon remains a celestial beauty… We like the mystery, the myth and, even, the superstitions around it… Dumb? Well, so be it… Some dumb things in life are so beautiful, you see! I did not know, till last evening, that even the Moon had a dark side to it, and, we Indians were the first in History to do a soft-landing on this dark side of the Moon. And, like everyone else did, I, too, felt elated and screamed – “Hey we did it!” Of course, I did not care to ask what’s the dark side of the Moon all about, nor did I care to ask what soft-landing signifi...