Vedic Science: Fiction vs Fact

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  • Published On: January 18, 2015
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A paper at the Indian Science Congress this year claimed that planes flew between planets in ancient India. Is this a flight of fancy? While celebrating tradition, are we mixing metaphorical with literal? Or have many real achievements of ancient India - from discovering zero to first surgery - buried by Western education? On We The People, we debate whether myth-making is the new science fiction or has colonised education made us ignorant of our own past?

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