JANASENA Posted January 13, 2015 Report Posted January 13, 2015 Amidst lectures delivered by several Nobel laureates and scientists of worldwide renown, the 102nd edition of the Indian Science Congress, recently organized in Mumbai, hosted a session in which speakers claimed ancient Indians had mastered miraculously-advanced aviation technologies and many other hitherto unproven ‘facts’, raising several eyebrows and sparking outrage within and outside the nation. Captain Anand J Bodas, a speaker in the symposium titled “Ancient Sciences through Sanskrit”, spoke of the existence of huge aeroplanes having 40 engines that “could move left, right, as well as backwards” and travel “from one country to another, one continent to another and one planet to another” in ancient India. Other controversial talks allegedly included claims about existence of advanced surgical instruments and methods in ancient India, cows being able to convert their food into 24-carat gold, and helmet from Mahabharata days being found on Mars. Besides, Union minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, claimed that the Pythagoras Theorem was discovered by ancient Indians before the Greeks. The ideas of 'pseudo-science' did not go down well with academicians and scientists. An Indian scientist from the US, who attended the session, questioned the claims and said he was not aware of such a chronology. A Mathematics professor at Mumbai University said he was surprised by Harsh Vardhan’s remarks. Earlier, soon after the event was planned, over 200 scientists from all over the world, led by NASA’s Dr. Ram Prasad Gandhiraman, had signed an online petition demanding cancellation of the lecture as it mixes Mythology with Science and misleads people. It is notable that exactly 40 years ago, five Indian scientists from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore had already debunked the claims of ancient Indian aviation by proving that the planes described in Vymanika Shastra - the text Bodas referred to in his lecture - are "poor concoctions" and "unimaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying". They also gave evidence that the text was not at all written during Vedic periods, and was instead written during the 20th century itself! It is arguably a huge blunder on the part of the lecturers in ISC to have stated unproven claims in a major scientific event without considering existing reputed and authentic studies.
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