While the rest of the world was focused on the early days of the Curiosity mission, India's prime minister Manmohan Singh announced the intent to build and launch a Mars orbiter in time for the November 2013 launch window. This is an insanely fast schedule, especially for a country's first spacecraft to be sent beyond the Moon. Of course, India builds and launches many Earth-orbiting satellites, so the necessary industry is in place; still, it seems unlikely that a mission can be built and tested properly so quickly. I gain nothing by predicting delay or doom, though. Instead, I'll hope for success and wish India good fortune in the development and launch.

This is the only picture I have seen of the proposed design: