INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Minister Biplab Kumar Deb claimed that satellite communication and the internet existed during the Mahabharata, poet and lyricist Javed
Akhtar took to social media today to hit back at the Chief Minister, saying that "any religious belief in the world is only as logical and
reasonable as the beliefs of this man (Biplab Kumar Deb)"
Deb's remarks, saying that Mahabharata's king Dhritarashtra was getting updates from the battle of Kurukshetra, social media exploded with
memes and jokes, from both celebrities and ordinary social media users, which gave many other mythological events a modern day twist.In one
tweet, writer Richa Singh claimed that if the internet had existed at the time, "all data services would have been suspended in
reply to Mr Akhtar's tweet, claimed to have unearthed a giant pen drive from the Mahabharata, claiming sage Vyasa carried "a soft copy" of
people" a day after he made the remarks, saying that they found it "tough to believe" and that "Indians should consider their nation to be
the greatest".Mr Deb is not the first BJP leader to claim that modern day technology existed in mythology
In January, Satyapal Singh, a junior education minister in PM Modi's cabinet, criticised the theory of evolution, claiming "nobody saw apes
In February, he said 'mantras' had codified Newton's Laws of Motion.Y Sudershan Rao, chairman of India's leading historical organisation,
said that Indians had been flying aeroplanes, had carried out stem cell research and used cosmic weapons 5,000 years ago.In October 2014, PM
Modi claimed that Lord Ganesha had perhaps benefitted from plastic surgery- an elephant head placed on his human body
He had also said that the account of Karna's birth in the Mahabharata indicated that "people were aware of genetic science".
