Each political regime wishes to gift something unique to the country. The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, has been giving India many unprecedented gifts, one of the more notable being the gift of proactive ignorance. An obvious manifestation of this is the direct attack on serious science, and unceasing efforts to establish myths as processes or products of advanced scientific knowledge. Not only do they injure the reputation of Indian science but they also, as scientists are angrily pointing out, obscure important scientific achievements of ancient India. Even though, as Mr VijayRaghavan said, such theories should be consigned to the bin, the so-called scientists must be called out for their lack of ethics in encouraging ignorance.

Source: The Telegraph January 09, 2019 03:33 UTC