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The
102nd
Indian
Science
Congress
being
held
in
Mumbai
will
be
remembered
for
a
very
long
time
to
come,
but
for
all
the
wrong
reasons.
For
the
first
time,
the
science
congress
had
a
session
on
"Ancient
Sciences
through
Sanskrit".
If
the
Indian
Science
Congress
had
long
lost
its
eminence
as
a
forum
where
results
of
serious
science
being
done
in
the
country
are
presented
and
discussed
in
most
sessions,
the
inclusion
of
Ancient
Sciences
through
Sanskrit
has
only
lowered
its
standing
further.
Even
as
a
public
session,
there
is
no
real
reason
whatsoever
for
it
to
have
been
included
in
the
proceedings.
At
best,
a
session
could
have
been
devoted
to
the
history
of
Indian
science
which
has
real
and
substantial
achievements
to
celebrate,
with
serious
scholars
working
on
the
subject
presenting
papers.
With
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
setting
the
tone
for
this
antiquity
frenzy
with
his
implausible
claims
that
cosmetic
surgery
was
practised
thousands
of
years
ago
and
in-vitro
fertilisation-like
procedure
was
resorted
to
long
back,
and
different
political
leaders
following
it
up
with
several
other
incredulous
claims
well
before
the
start
of
the
national
event,
the
reason
for
the
inclusion
of
the
session
becomes
supremely
clear.
Instead
of
fostering
scientific
temper,
the
congress
has
provided
a
forum
to
seed
the
minds
of
young
people
with
pseudoscience.
Some
of
the
papers
presented
were
about
Indians'
"knowledge
of
making
aeroplanes"
that
could
undertake
interplanetary
travel,
between
7000
and
6000
BC,
and
"radars"
that
worked
on
the
principle
of
detecting
energy
given
out
by
animate
and
inanimate
objects
and
finding
out
if
a
body
was
dead
or
alive.
Science
is
grounded
on
the
principle
of
reproducibility
of
results.
The
claims
of
advanced
science
and
technology
in
the
ancient
world
are
based
on
some
references
in
ancient
scripts
that
may
be
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