Rashmun wrote:Modi said, when we look at these artefacts, we realise how much our ancestors had mastered the science and arts. In India we have archaeological digs, we find such artefacts. He added, governments and laws have become more alert about trafficking of cultural artefacts and are working to prevent it.

While citing an example he said, “Medical science's history isn’t old, as I remember seeing a slide of 700 year old stone engraved showing a woman with embryo in womb which means 700 years back surgery was done, much earlier than what our medical history goes back to”.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/070616/modi-in-us-united-states-returns-more-than-200-stolen-artefacts-back-to-india.html

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This fool is clearly ignorant about the Susruta Samhita or even the Charaka Samhita.

Rashmun wrote:

Rashmun wrote:Modi said, when we look at these artefacts, we realise how much our ancestors had mastered the science and arts. In India we have archaeological digs, we find such artefacts. He added, governments and laws have become more alert about trafficking of cultural artefacts and are working to prevent it.

While citing an example he said, “Medical science's history isn’t old, as I remember seeing a slide of 700 year old stone engraved showing a woman with embryo in womb which means 700 years back surgery was done, much earlier than what our medical history goes back to”.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/070616/modi-in-us-united-states-returns-more-than-200-stolen-artefacts-back-to-india.html

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This fool is clearly ignorant about the Susruta Samhita or even the Charaka Samhita.

and let's not even get started about ancient Greek Medicine, ancient Chinese medicine, etc.

SomeProfile wrote:Here is a quote from Morarji Desai's 60 Minutes interview:

Desai: No. It is not a strange practice. In America scientists are preparing extracts from urine for heart trouble. You probably don't know that.

Rather: No, I didn't know that.

Desai: They are doing it. So your people are drinking other people's urine but not their own. And it costs dollars, thousands of dollars, while, their's is free and more effective.

SomeProfile wrote:Here is a quote from Morarji Desai's 60 Minutes interview:

Desai: No. It is not a strange practice. In America scientists are preparing extracts from urine for heart trouble. You probably don't know that.

Rather: No, I didn't know that.

Desai: They are doing it. So your people are drinking other people's urine but not their own. And it costs dollars, thousands of dollars, while, their's is free and more effective.

Rashmun wrote:Morarji was PM of India for just two years. nobody takes him seriously these days. nobody talks about him except with scorn. so the comparison is not quite apt.

Why not compare NaMo with a former PM of India who governed for a long time and who NaMo's party clearly dislikes and criticizes fairly regularly:

http://www.news18.com/news/politics/nehrus-nation-building-idea-was-based-on-junking-old-values-amit-shah-1252617.html

can you imagine Nehru committing these mistakes related to historical facts? Can you imagine Nehru talking rubbish like the fact that brain transplant and genetics was known to Indians a long time ago?

As proof, Narendra Modi gave the examples of the warrior Karna from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata and of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha.

“We can feel proud of what our country achieved in medical science at one point of time,” the prime minister told a gathering of doctors and other professionals at a hospital in Mumbai on Saturday. “We all read about Karna in the Mahabharata. If we think a little more, we realise that the Mahabharata says Karna was not born from his mother’s womb. This means that genetic science was present at that time. That is why Karna could be born outside his mother’s womb.”

Modi went on: “We worship Lord Ganesha. There must have been some plastic surgeon at that time who got an elephant’s head on the body of a human being and began the practice of plastic surgery.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/indian-prime-minister-genetic-science-existed-ancient-times

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It is India's misfortune that the most powerful person in the country today is a charlatan who lacks basic knowledge of science and history.

southindian wrote:Upadhyay,

Forget Modi, you Um Bare-your-ass everytime you make idiotic statements here.

Not sure how you come to stupid conclusions you always make.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:Compare that to Justin Trudeau's smart remarks about quantum computing.

SomeProfile wrote:Here is a quote from Morarji Desai's 60 Minutes interview:

Desai: No. It is not a strange practice. In America scientists are preparing extracts from urine for heart trouble. You probably don't know that.

Rather: No, I didn't know that.

Desai: They are doing it. So your people are drinking other people's urine but not their own. And it costs dollars, thousands of dollars, while, their's is free and more effective.

pravalika nanda wrote:

SomeProfile wrote:Here is a quote from Morarji Desai's 60 Minutes interview:

Desai: No. It is not a strange practice. In America scientists are preparing extracts from urine for heart trouble. You probably don't know that.

Rather: No, I didn't know that.

Desai: They are doing it. So your people are drinking other people's urine but not their own. And it costs dollars, thousands of dollars, while, their's is free and more effective.

apparently jd salinger and maddona also do stuff with their urine.
i can't believe this stupid guy desai did that and is so clueless as to discuss it on 60 mins. i also wonder why a well-regarded reporter would discuss that as if there were no important issues to discuss with an indina PM.  i suspect those were the days india's image was one of snake charmers and hippies. shame on DR too.