New Delhi, February 1992.
While the world applauded India's rural transformation, economic growth, and cultural renaissance, Aryan remained vigilant. Power attracts attention — and envy.
In the shadows, something far more dangerous than tanks or missiles loomed: cyber warfare.
Western intelligence agencies had already tried to sabotage India's PARAM supercomputers. Several Indian scientists reported phishing attempts. A top-secret DRDO email server had been breached — the origin traced to Shanghai.
"The wars of tomorrow will not begin with gunfire," Aryan warned."They will begin with a click."
🔐 Genesis of Bharat Cyber Kavach
Thus was born Bharat Cyber Kavach — India's first full-spectrum civilian–military cyber defense network.
Led by:
DRDO's cybernetic branch.
NIC (National Informatics Centre).
RAW and IB's cyber intelligence arms.
Handpicked hackers, engineers, linguists, and cryptographers under the PMO's direct control.
🧠 Key Directives:
Cyber Defense Corps (CDC):
Modeled on the Israeli Unit 8200.
Recruited top coding minds from IITs, IIITs, and even underground hacker networks.
Operated as a decentralized, anonymous task force with rotating leadership.
Project RakshaNet:
Created India's own secure internet backbone, independent of foreign DNS routing.
All strategic government servers routed through BharatDNS, hosted on sovereign soil.
Desi OS Initiative:
Launched national effort to develop BharatOS — an indigenous, open-source operating system.
Initially deployed in defense, then gradually in public banking, election commissions, and health services.
Hackback Doctrine:
Aryan authorized a legal offensive protocol:If a foreign entity attacks Indian infrastructure digitally, Cyber Kavach can respond in kind — attack, disable, expose.
📱 Public Layer: Digital Security for Every Citizen
Not just governments — even ordinary people were vulnerable.
Aryan integrated Cyber Kavach with Aadhar Card systems:
Every citizen received a Cyber Security Score, like a credit score.
Warning alerts sent to users during phishing, fraud, or suspicious logins.
Regional languages used in cybersecurity tutorials across BharatNet.
Free anti-virus program, KavachLite, rolled out for home users.
"If even one farmer's bank account is hacked, it is an attack on the nation," Aryan declared.
🕵️♂️ Countering Internal Threats: The Invisible War
India's rapid rise had attracted sabotage:
NGOs with shadow funding tried to manipulate caste protests.
International servers hosted misinformation campaigns targeting Hindu festivals, Sanskrit, and even Saksham Yojana.
Aryan's Cyber Legal Wing tracked, logged, and prosecuted over 2,700 malicious online campaigns.
New laws under Judicial Reset Phase II introduced "Digital Sedition" — intentional sabotage of national harmony through cyber means.
🔍 Real Case: The Nuclear Lab Leak That Never Happened
In March 1992, an attempted ransomware breach of India's nuclear reactor system in Tarapur was neutralized before it began.
A 19-year-old CDC recruit from Coimbatore — codename "Bhargava" — reverse-engineered the worm and neutralized it within 72 seconds.
He later received the Param Sena Medal.
No one saw his face. He declined all press interviews.
But his family received a personal thank-you letter from Aryan.
🧠 The System Speaks
[Ding! Achievement Unlocked: Digital Sovereign]
[Reward: Quantum Micro Kernel – Gen 1]
Aryan knew what this meant. India was no longer just defending itself.
It had become a digital fortress.
As Aryan left the Kavach command center that night, he looked up at the sky — thousands of satellites beaming signals above them.
"We are safe... for now. But now they know we can bite back."