India recently slammed their lunar lander into our moon wasting a huge pile of cash, now they are wasting even more money on these computers. Meanwhile, over 90% of their raw sewage settles right back into their drinking water. Human fecal waste is found everywhere, even in their streets and on their sidewalks.
Maybe India should focus on bringing SOME quality of life to its citizens before trying their hand at advanced sciences.
Mesopotamians mastered the sewer system over 6,000 years ago...
India isn't rich in natural resources or big like Australia that they can develop by selling their natural resources. If they want to develop, they'll have to invest in technologies.
Just one step of their lunar mission failed, all the objectives were met, I don't think that's a failure. Taking into account that the whole mission had a cost of $140 million and comparing it with other countries like China's $8.4 billion in lunar craft in 2017, I think they did pretty good.
Quality of life is almost (not exactly) directly proportional to economic and educational development of the country as a whole and they seem to be doing exactly that in the last 20-25 years.
And as Arjun already said, if you want to talk about several thousand years ago, very few civilizations would hold candle to India and China.