randyk

The people that push for Indian space exploration are either (1) not living in India, or (2) they are living in India and doing well economically. If you ask people living in the slums about this, they’ll give you a very different perspective than what you read on HN. And they vastly outnumber the people in India who are doing well.

The people that push for Indian space exploration are either (1) not living in India, or (2) they are living in India and doing well economically.

If you ask people living in the slums about this, they’ll give you a very different perspective than what you read on HN. And they vastly outnumber the people in India who are doing well.

I love India and its people, having spent five years there managing a dev team for our US operations. I’m American, parents were born in India.

And I gotta say, landing on the moon is by far the last thing India’s people need right now.

The amount of suffering, pollution, corruption, water shortages, is simply overwhelming. If you haven’t actually lived there it’s easy to say that India should still shoot for the stars while solving problems at home. From someone who lived there, let me tell you that they should focus on immediate problems first.