Why is India, a country with 200 million starving people, spending lavishly on a moon mission? What is the point? Make the moon smell like curry, instead of cheese?
Not even posted here much, India is a strategic competitor to China. This landing was solely aimed at China to keep India 'in the game', ala 'US vs Soviets'. Ironically, the video quality echoes the laughable quality of that from China during their first spacewalk.
Better question: Why is the US spending lavishly on the ukes when there are tens of thousands of homeless veterans in the US under a government which must skew reporting totals out of some perverted motivation to project progress on the glaring symptom of bad governance?
First dibs on the 7-11 franchise.