In a fiery defense of India’s thriving space endeavors, TV anchor Palki Sharma, host of “Vantage,” posed a compelling question: “Why is the West Questioning India’s Achievements?”

Sharma’s impassioned inquiry came in response to the eyebrow-raising reactions from Western countries, notably Great Britain, to India’s recent space mission to the sun.

Sharma first took issue with The New York Times’ depiction of India as a poor man with a cow knocking at the door of the “Elite Space Club,” where two men sit, one engrossed in a newspaper headlined “India’s Mars Mission.”

She termed this portrayal “racist” and “in very poor taste,” raising ironic parallels to The New York Times’ own claims of being woke and anti-racist, despite being a source of fervent accusations of racism against former President Donald Trump without credible evidence.

Sharma continued, questioning whether The New York Times would publish something more aligned with reality.

This posed a profound challenge to the self-proclaimed “paper of record,” which has faced its fair share of criticism, particularly for perpetuating the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

“We’re not holding our breath for a response, because the West is back to playing its old games, discrediting India’s achievements and questioning India’s motives,” Sharma asserted.

Sharma staunchly defended Chandrayaan 3, the third mission in the Chandrayaan program, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, as “the world’s first to land on the moon’s South Pole.”

She spotlighted another “bizarre comment” from the British media, specifically Patrick Christys from GB News, who sarcastically congratulated India for “landing on the dark side of the moon” while demanding the return of “2.3 billion pounds of foreign aid money sent to them between 2016 and 2021.”

Christys further urged the British government to cease sending money to its former South Asian colony, reasoning, “we should not be giving money to countries with a space program.”

He emphasized, “If you can afford to fire rockets at the dark side of the moon, you shouldn’t be coming to us with your hand out.”

In a decisive six-minute monologue, Sharma dismantled Christys with facts, revealing that India had not received UK foreign aid since 2015. She underscored that no one was seeking foreign aid, effectively putting an end to the financial claims.

Sharma didn’t stop there.

In response to the British’s demand for money, she proposed a counter-offer: “If you’re going down that road, let’s start with reparations.”

She emphasized the colossal “colonial loot” that Britain had extracted from India, estimated at around $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938, with the actual figure potentially much higher.

Sharma concluded by addressing the attempts to discredit India’s space achievements through “juvenile conspiracy theories,” defending her country’s progress on the global stage.