India is quite capable of sending a rocket to Mars and fighting poverty

[amazedsaint]

http://qz.com/143717/indias-cut-rate-mission-to-mars-doesnt-distract-from-fighting-poverty/

[kaka189]

It is very sad to see some bad journalism around this even from well known channels. http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Pove...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/11/ec...? even suggests "What if the 16,000 scientists and engineers now working on space development were deployed instead to fix rotten sanitation?"