Was Hanuman the first
space traveller? Did Ravana’s ten heads
give him the intelligence and skills required to make an aeroplane? Did Lord Ganesh receive his elephantine tusk
through plastic surgery in an ancient All India Institute of Medical Science?
If you answer ‘yes’ to all
such questions you are eligible to present a science paper in the 102nd
Indian Science Congress being conducted by Mumbai University. “One paper, co-authored by Captain Anand
Bodas, retired head of a pilot training centre, and Ameya Jadhav, a teacher,
claimed there was evidence of ancient aviation in the Rigveda,” says a Hindu report.
There were 200-foot planes that could
fly forwards, backwards and sideways and even hover in mid-air during the Vedic
age. The Captain claimed
that the planes, invented by a sage called Maharishi Bharadwaj over 7000 years
ago, had up to 30 engines and were equipped for warfare.
The Head of the Sanskrit
department of the University claimed that Pythagoras Theorem was actually
discovered by Baudhayan in 800 BCE. One
wonders in the first place what a Sanskrit professor was doing in a science
congress. Another such ‘scientist’
claimed that cows could turn food into 24-carat gold using some bacteria in their
bodies. Well, the cow is getting holier!
One exhibitor, Kiran Naik,
said that during the Mahabharata war, there was a chase in one of those Vedic
planes from the earth to the moon and then to Mars, where a king attacked his
rival, breaking his helmet. More, he
asserted that NASA found the helmet on Mars.
What is happening to
India? Are we becoming a nation of
loonies burying our sanity under the ossified leaves of the past?
There is no place for people who do not understand the ABC of scientific enquiry in a science conference. This has done the most severe harm to our reputation in global science community.
ReplyDeleteWe are making asses of ourselves. Pseudo-science is masquerading as science and perverting the minds of the citizens.
DeleteYou raised a valid question ...Mathical !
ReplyDeleteI'm scientific in my outlook, Alka, and hence am concerned about the latest antics of the Sangh people.
DeleteNext we know is nobody is going to this Indian Science congress as its rubbish.
ReplyDeleteSanskrit scholars and pandits will be presenting science papers :)
DeleteUnfortunate.
ReplyDeleteDMR Sekhar
Indeed, DMR. When myths displace science in the rightful place of the latter, it is indeed unfortunate.
DeleteIts other form of slow move towards religious conspiracy of saying being sanskritisation..
ReplyDeleteAnd for what? What is anyone going to benefit through all this?
DeleteThey are writing a fantasy of their own. Earlier it was religion and politics and now it's religion-science-maths-chemistry. Please bring some sanity in this country.
ReplyDeleteSanity will descend after the turbulence, Saru.
Deleteshame ... shame .... puppy shame...!
ReplyDeleteTheee may be the signs Kalikaalam...!
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