Ten price-tags to put Isro Mars mission cost in perspective

With yesterday’s launch of Mangalyaan, the jingoism from some quarters (‘This Diwali, India sends a gift…to the Moon’, exulted one Mumbai newspaper) was countered by murmurings from some other quarters. What business, they said indignantly, did India have to spend more than Rs 450 crore on a spacecraft to Mars, when the country’s ground reality (pun intended) was so terrible?

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