Amid the gloom and doom of the global financial crisis, we are forgetting to celebrate the Chandrayaan mission and its success in planting the Indian flag on the moon. India has reached the moon many decades after the US, and even now it has not sent a man on the moon, but the important thing worth keeping in mind is that India's space programme has cost a fraction of that in the US or any other country. It has also been a lot more successful than that of, say, the Nasa. The country should be over the moon, not down in the dumps.
Shashi Gupta, New Delhi
