It is indeed a burnol moment for the British Broadcast Company, which is notorious for its Colonial mindset, as the Indian Space Research Organisation, writing history, successfully landed its Vikram lander on the moon and became the first country to land on the lunar south pole.

 

 

The BBC has come under fire once again after an old video surfaced on X where of one of its reporters was seen questioning India's need for an expensive space mission like Chandrayaan-3 when it already has issues like lack of infrastructure and "extreme poverty".

 

The British Broadcast Company (BBC) ran a news bulletin when the Chandrayaan-3 was launched into space with the objective of landing on the south pole of the Lunar surface.

 

But the news anchor only focussed on criticising India for spending so much money on a space mission when the country itself is struggling for basic necessities like public toilets among other things. The video surfaced on X after Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander touched down on the Moon, making India the first country to land on the South Pole of the Lunar surface.

 

 

 

 

Reacting to this, Anand Mahindra emphasized that India's poverty is, to a large extent, a consequence of colonial rule, which exploited the wealth of the subcontinent. He stated that the most significant loss suffered by India was not the Kohinoor Diamond, but its pride and belief in its own capabilities.

 

 

 

"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—it’s 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," Anand Mahindra said.