Great but who really benefits from it? Certainly not the average Indian.

Do the people who are living in poverty, who have limited health care, sanitation, electricity, food, get to decide?

Nothing of the sort, no one condones Britains colonial past and the terrible things it did in the name of an Empire, but the Maharajahs and Moguls were not any better and welcomed the infrastructure and weapons and wealth that it bought them. You cant keep blaming the British, actually Indias current state of disparity between rich and poor is not the legacy of Colonialism, but of a Caste system, corruption and overpopulation.

Here we go again.
All answers re what the Brits did to India in video below

http://time.com/3969097/shashi-tharo...india-britain/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

Avg indian have access to satellite TV, GPS, weather forcast etc at reasonable price because of the these launches/innovation/investment. If they succeed in reusable thing it will bring down prices hence increasing the affordability. ISRO is also sending foreign satellites to generate revenues to reduce dependency on taxpayers money. ISRO budget is around three per cent of NASA budget.


Yes they elect their representative in the parliament and they collectively decide what to do with the money.

You need to read some Indian history.

No point wasting time.. simple_person. You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink. If Tobias-m WANTS to see a certain reality - he will, irrespective.

A very old article.
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs...ug/jastrow.htm

Spot On!!!

TobiasM,
It is a very foolish assertion that space programs (or any other technological advancement) shouldn't be pursued by poor nations, that they somehow divert the funds which could be better utilized in the social sector and that they don't help the poor. I think simple_person has given a good reply.

My home is in a small village in the outskirts of Kolkata and I can tell you there are more than one way that the Indian space program has helped villagers here.

regards

So easy to troll the Indians on here

So easy to be proud of being a troll Loz1983, yet so difficult to put in a cohesive response

But as an aside, I think it is true that countries which have stagnated for a long time would celebrate their achievements (small they might be) a little more vigorously. If that looks ugly to your esteemed opinion I would say just overlook the enthusiasm, please.

Regards

You got my goat.... and cow ... and house ... and crops ... and money.. and Koh-I-Noor.

Is accepting a billion dollar 'gift' from a 12 year old legal?

The Koh-I-Noor was a present. It's a bit mean to ask for it back.

But it wouldn't bother me if it was cut into three and a piece given each to Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

From a helpless 12 YO boy. How would you react if someone 'talked your kid' to gift his expensive phone in return for 'safety'?

Fair enough. Dont keep whats not yours to keep, at least.

Lol, "Reparations" - Demanding money from someone who had nothing to do with anything to pay you for something you had nothing to do with.

talking of meanness... one reason why the sun never set on the Empire was perhaps that even God did not trust the British in the dark.

Don't they all say that?
HA!

To be honest, I haven't got a problem giving it back to India. But there are other countries that lay claim to it too including Iran.

There's a nice bronze statue of Queen Victoria in the Lahore museum. Can I have that?
It would quite cool in my back garden.

Depends on how it got there.

Depends on how it got there.

By truck, probably.