New Delhi: Gaganyatri Shubhanshu Shukla has posted a video of India as it appears from space on X as a Diwali Greeting. The cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and New Delhi have been marked in the video, which was presumably captured during Shukla’s visit to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier in the year, as part of the Axiom 4 mission. In the greeting, Shukla posted, “Up there, watching this grand spectacle unfold, you can’t help but smile. This isn’t just Diwali on Earth — it’s Diwali of Earth. The festival of lights, written across an entire nation, glowing proudly on a cosmic stage.”

Flying over India from space — from the sunlit southwest to the misty northeast — is like watching a living galaxy unfurl beneath you. You don’t just see it; you feel it in every fibre of

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