After seeing the way the Pakistani minister of science was tweeting about this, then the negative comments like the one in this very thread by an account created 6 minutes ago, I can't help but assume that the enemies of India must represent the majority of the negative sentiment about this attempt.
ISRO should be very proud of their accomplishments. The people saying that India should worry about their starving population first and foremost don't understand that:
a.) populations feed themselves, there is no government on Earth that has ever successfully fed its population
b.) ISRO has been able to recover a large part of its costs by launching foreign payloads
c.) ISRO provides non-bureaucratic pencil pushing jobs for Indians, in particular the sorts of jobs for some of the brightest Indians who would otherwise be very likely to leave the country for better prospects
d.) We all benefit from the sort of science being done here, today
ISRO should be very proud of their accomplishments. The people saying that India should worry about their starving population first and foremost don't understand that:
a.) populations feed themselves, there is no government on Earth that has ever successfully fed its population
b.) ISRO has been able to recover a large part of its costs by launching foreign payloads
c.) ISRO provides non-bureaucratic pencil pushing jobs for Indians, in particular the sorts of jobs for some of the brightest Indians who would otherwise be very likely to leave the country for better prospects
d.) We all benefit from the sort of science being done here, today