Why Anand Mahindra is making headlines again?

Anand Mahindra, the chairman of Mahindra Group on Thursday slammed a BBC anchor for questioning India’s space mission. The response from Anand Mahindra came into response of an old video post that got viral on the social media soon after the success of Chandrayaan-3.

In the video clip, the anchor can be seen asking a panelist if “India needed to spend money on a space program when there were 700 million people living in poverty in the country”.

Replying to this, Mahindra asserted that colonials only robbed of our pride and belief in our own capabilities. The tweet reads, “Really??  The truth is that, in large part, our poverty was a result of decades of colonial rule which systematically plundered the wealth of an entire subcontinent. Yet the most valuable possession we were robbed of was not the Kohinoor Diamond but our pride & belief in our own capabilities. Because the goal of colonisation—its most insidious impact—is to convince its victims of their inferiority. Which is why investing in BOTH toilets AND space exploration is not a contradiction. Sir, what going to the moon does for us is that it helps restore our pride & self-confidence. It creates belief  in progress through science. It gives us the aspiration to lift ourselves out of poverty. The greatest poverty is the poverty of aspiration…”

It is to be noted here that India’s Chandrayaan-3 has successfully landed on the moon on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 6:04 pm. With this, India becomes the first nation to reach the south pole of the Moon and fourth in the list of countries to land on lunar after Russia, China and the US.