Head of History in India claims "We had laser weapons 5000 years ago"

**[MPGH]Wyo** · 11-23-2014

https://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/a.../1/403167.html

Indians were flying aeroplanes, carrying out stem cell research and may even have been using cosmic weapons 5,000 years ago, according to the chairman of India's leading historical organisation.

Professor Y Sudershan Rao, the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, has been criticized by fellow historians for comments that Hindu epics are adequate to understand the ancient world, rather than relying on evidence or research.

The Hindu nationalist government appointed Rao to the prestigious academic post soon after winning the biggest landslide in three decades, fuelling concerns of a push to teach the superiority of Hindu values and mythology at the cost of academic rigour, and cutting against the grain of secularism that runs through multi-faith modern India.

"We have so many proofs that these events happened," Rao, 69, said in an interview, describing events in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epics about love and war, truth and deceit, that feature characters using inextinguishable fire and weapons with the destructive power of a nuclear arsenal

:V

I'M NOT SAYING IT WAS ANCIENT INDIANS

BUT IT WAS PROBABLY INDIANS

But for real what is this man smoking

The amount of stupidity and close minded in the comments is incredible.