As a head of ISRO we expect the chairman to be in third category and its disappointing if he is actually on first category as it's defeating all his scientific stance!
C'mon man ...
while I agree of almost all of what you said, this is where i disagree, respectfully ...
I just went through the links that LTT had posted ... a certain "Federation of rational society", quacks actually in my opinion, demanded ISRO chairmans resignation because of his puja .. !!
when did india stop being a free country ? when did believers stop having the right to perform a religious act ?
do you even realize how stupid all this sounds ?
As long as the chairman didnt spend taxpayer money to perform the puja, I think the atheist crowd should just STFU.
there is no edict or fatwa on doing a puja, whenever, in FREE India. The crowd ought to stop behaving as if there is.