Life slice #3: What an eventful month June has been

June was an incredibly productive and good month for me.I taught my parents how to do some basic things on a laptop I gifted them. It’s their first laptop. It runs Android so they can easily adapt their familiar touchscreen interactions from their phones over to a touchpad & keyboard paradigm. My Mom is learning how to use a computer, which I’m happy about. And for my Dad, who already uses Windows at work, I’m hoping a laptop will lead him to start blogging. He writes beautiful things in Gujarati, which can become nice web posts which add his voice to the Internet collective.On the work front, I’m satisfied with having completed my 5-part series on India’s rocket launch crisis. The set has taken me about a year of work to research and publish. Even though the writing is critical of ISRO, in a journalistic manner, the reception from readers has been really good. The research for the same also made me realize the true gravity of the situation, which I thought I understood before but…