No. Phone has multiple pings -- WA, SMS, and what not. And it is not loud enough to be functional on the Indian streets. Like I said, this is not Starbucks.

Audio confirmation is convenient, especially when handling multiple customers at a time. . . . which most hawkers/vegetable sellers/tea-vendors/street-fastfood/ etc do. These are not Starbucks to handle one a time.

Despite your 'LOL', I believe the priorities are correct.

If you really understood what priorities for government mean (that different branches of a government have their respective priorities) then you'll also understand that the traffic in Delhi or the power cuts have nothing to do with India's space ambitions.

Oh wait. . . this is slashdot. So, anything ambitious/expensive/challenging attempted by any non-western country is by default LOL. . .

IMHO, without including the concept of 'self-awareness' (includes self-preservation at one end and empathy at other) the definition of Life will remain incomplete.