Introduction

A paper was delivered claiming that the indians invented air flight seven thousand years ago. Unfortunately, science is being exploited quite cynically to advance the claim that india has always been a civilizational state. The entire approach is part of a cynical power play in the guise of the defence of tradition. India's recently re elected prime minister, nerendra modi, not averse to trying to harness his own political future and that of his party to a re interpretation of the vedic texts.