June 15, 1990 – War Room, PMO, New Delhi
Aryan stood before a massive blueprint stretching wall to wall — layers of colored wires, relay points, and blinking nodes.
"DeshNet," he said, tapping the center, "will be India's nervous system."
His voice was calm, but every official in the room could feel the intensity behind the words.
"A farmer in Gadchiroli, a nurse in Mizoram, a rescue team in Uttarkashi — they all need instant communication."
The blueprint was simple in idea, radical in impact:
🌐 DeshNet Plan (1990–1995)
Nationwide secure intranet backbone connecting 7 lakh villages.
Emergency alert system for disaster, medical, and terror warnings.
Local info hubs: DeshKendras at every village cluster.
Built-in messaging service for citizen-to-govt grievances.
Protocol fallback: Works on landline, radio, and future mobile bands.
Villager training with "DeshSakhi" (female digital officers).
June 18 – Joint Tech Roundtable
Tech officers from DRDO, Bharat Electronics, Indian Railways, and VSNL sat bewildered as Aryan walked them through the plan.
"We'll use railway fiber where we can, BharatLink's ducts for optical lines, and BSNL land towers for fallback. But the end point? Always the village."
R&D Chief snapped, "But rural towers will need solar-battery backups. India doesn't have enough solar yet."
Aryan smirked. "Then this is your chance to change that."
"DeshNet won't wait for infrastructure. DeshNet is the infrastructure."
June 28 – Pilot Launch: Banda District, Uttar Pradesh
DeshNet's first hub blinked to life in a dusty, underserved cluster.
A woman named Rajni Devi, trained for just 12 days, sent a real-time health alert when three villagers collapsed from pesticide poisoning.
Within 2 hours, medical vans — routed through DeshNet's triage alert — arrived from a nearby clinic.
Her words that evening were broadcast on Doordarshan:
"Before, the landline never worked. The post took 5 days. Now I press one button — and Delhi listens."
July 1 – Emergency in Himachal
A sudden landslide near Kullu buried a bus of students.
Local wireless lines were cut.
But the DeshNet relay, powered by an auxiliary solar dish, transmitted their location instantly.
First DeshDrone, a modified surveillance UAV, reached the site with relief kits and GPS beacons.34 lives were saved.
July 10 – Aryan's Parliament Speech
Aryan addressed a skeptical Parliament where opposition MPs complained DeshNet was a "digital fantasy."
He countered:
"We've spent decades saying Bharat is a land of villages. But we left them in silence."
"DeshNet connects not just devices. It connects dignity. Today, a tea farmer in Assam can send feedback to the Ministry of Agriculture. A nurse in Mizoram can request supplies directly. A tribal elder in Bastar can flag a local contractor for corruption."
"You say DeshNet is fantasy. I say the real fantasy was thinking India could develop without a voice."
July 15 – System Notification
[Ding! Subtask 'National Connectivity Spine' milestone reached.]
Reward: DeshSat-TX Low Orbit MicroSatellite BlueprintSatellite designed for low-cost, rural comms network (launch ready within 3 years)
Aryan stared at the file on his desk: DeshSat-TX
"Three years, huh? Then let's prepare the sky."
August 1 – Public Reaction
Schoolgirls in Jharkhand used DeshNet to send a request for textbooks — they received them in a week.
Coastal fishermen began using relay alerts to avoid high-tide danger zones.
NRIs in Germany proposed building DeshKendras as a diaspora gift.
At a DeshKendra inauguration, a child was asked what DeshNet meant to him.
He replied:
"It means I'm not invisible anymore."
August 10 – Global Headlines
TIME Magazine: "India's Silent Revolution: A Tech-First Model for the Third World."
BBC: "Aryan Sen Gupta Launches India's Rural Intranet — Critics Call It a Gamble, Villagers Call It a Lifeline."
Final Scene – Aryan's Office, Late Night
Aryan stared at the live DeshNet dashboard — thousands of tiny green dots blinking from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
He whispered:
"Now the heart is beating. Let's build the brain next."