North Korea now has ICBMs and nuclear weapons. This just shows what a committed state can achieve once it has it's priorities in order. In India the classes ar

North Korea now has ICBMs and nuclear weapons. This just shows what a committed state can achieve once it has it's priorities in order. In India the classes are just looking out for themselves and keep looting each other when they have the opportunity to do so. Take Bangalore now. The congress government here, has been openly siphoning money from the treasury for election funds or whatever. Now the state elections are going to be held in a few months, they are repairing roads, paying municipal workers and doing things they should have been doing throughout their term. Now people here take exception to some European/American saying, why the hell does India have a space program etc when you have so many basic problems to fix. I take offense to that as well. Mainly because saving a small amount of money on that isn't automatically going to uplift hundreds of millions of impoverished Indians. It's hardly a drop in the bucket. Also because so many young people here graduate with engineering degrees, and they need something to look forward to. The problem is that the people in charge realize that organizations like ISRO have to be shielded from the very system they govern and nurtured. They are OK with the same system perpetuating itself and hamstringing everything else. And it's not in their list of priorities to stop and reform this.