A few hours post the Indian Space Research Organisation’s plan to land Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram on the moon failed, PM Narendra Modi, consoled a mourning ISRO chief K. Sivan, expressing sorrow and solidarity. In his peculiar style, Mr Modi hugged the ISRO chief passing on more than a billion hugs. A historic moment of joy thus sublimed into a moment of “national mourning”.
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