Response to having a space program while having poverty: http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Pove...
Please scroll down a bit because the awesome part comes after the subhead: Why India needs a MARS program.
Please scroll down a bit because the awesome part comes after the subhead: Why India needs a MARS program.
India spends 0.2% on space exploration and 12% on defence. If you want to complain about misaligned priorities complain about our defence that takes up the most resources but does very little indigenous development rather than our space program that costs next to nothing but develops a lot of indigenous technology.