Shashi Tharoor has praised Kerala's College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, for producing scientists who worked on the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission. Listing names of the scientists who graduated from CET, he said, "Indians are rightly obsessed with IITs, but let's salute alumni of unsung engineering colleges." He further wrote, "IITians went to Silicon Valley; CETians took us to the Moon."