India's aborted moon-mission: Let the conspiracy theories begin

India's moon mission has terminated abruptly with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) losing contact with Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar space probe. Since India has a long history of aborted space probes, there is nothing surprising in the premature end of the mission, but what is unacceptable is the lack of crazy conspiracy theories built around this sudden loss of contact.

Every space mission concerned with moon has always attracted loony conspiracy theories, which is again not surprising since moon has been long associated with madness. It is quite surprising that India has escaped the 'lunar affect' which could be due to our media's obsession with Humpty Dumpties in Blunderland or perhaps because of low glamor value of ISRO compared to the famed NASA, dream destination of every sky-gazer.

We need our very own desi conspiracy theories to explain the tragic abortion of Chandrayaan-1 moon mission. Was it due to technical reasons alone or some manevolent forces were responsible for stealing the satellite from us? Here are a few loony theories that I've developed after looking up on the net for moon related conspiracy theories.

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