Hi Arindam. Thanks for reading and posting a very respectful information-rich response to an article that gave you mixed feelings.

While I do my best not to leave space for misinterpretation or offence, I have learnt over the years that we're all very different people seeing things from wildly different angles.

My intention was clearly not to disrespect anyone. I think the article is doing a good job of praising India and the Indian people for more than just this success. My decision not to compare ISRO with NASA comes from the fact that I am not a space expert. You will notice that I kept the technical and even historical aspects of this mission very limited exactly because of that. I am not the right person to make comparisons like that. In the context of the article and my readers however, I felt that bringing up Apple as a parallel between ISRO's and Apple's long-term business approach was valuable as I both have a lot of experience with Apple, and many of my readers are consumer tech and Apple fans. There was no intent of comparing the two, and I don't think I am.

I also don't believe I claim anywhere that this is ISRO's only success or that it's only 20 years old so perhaps implying that I did that is a bit of a stretch. That being said, I am sure that some of my readers who will stumble into the comment section, will appreciate the extra historical facts that you have shared just as much as I did.