"Let's stop all progress until we deal with insert_your_problem_of_choice" has never been a good take, it stifles development without actually helping. In an ideal world that might work, but as is it just doesn't.
To add to that, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn't get fixed by stopping space programs.
ISROʼs last lunar exploration mission was in 2019 and called Chandrayaan-2. The lunar orbiter succeeded. The lunar lander, named Vikram, failed, crashing onto the lunar surface. Vikram contained a lunar rover named Pragyan.
Back in Reddit, you couldn't have a single post about India's space works without the mods locking the threads. I had hoped those fuckers would stay there.
Wait, really? Can you think of any examples off the top of your head? I read elsewhere on this thread they had a previous attempt at this mission which crashed and burned (Vikram and Pragyan)