It was appropriately titled. Agni. On May 22, at exactly 7.17 a.m., Agni erupted into a chariot of fire, propelling India into an elite club controlled by the world's technical and military behemoths. Agni, India's first Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM), has been postponed twice before launch at the Chandipur Interim Test Range on the Orissa coast.
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