“We had those arrows of Arjuna that had nuclear power.”Dhankhar, the leader of India’s right wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also said that though aircraft were invented in the early 20th century, flying chariots have been mentioned in the Ramayana. But in Ramayana we had Udaan Khatola [flying chariots],” he said. In fact, the Wright brothers built and flew the first aircraft on December 17, 1903 in North Carolina in the United States. The governor claimed that due to all these things mentioned in the ancient epics, the world can no longer afford to ignore India. Veteran nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha, who has been conferred India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, said the governor was showing symptoms of insanity.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 15, 2020 19:07 UTC