INDIAN-BORN Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan dismissed as baseless last year’s claims at the Indian Science Congress that India had aviation technology centuries ago, aside from terming homeopathy and astrology as useless and harmful practices.

“It was surprising for me that Indian science academies did not condemn it. Science has to be based on data. You have to show that you did it and others should be able to verify it. It is impossible that India had plane technology 2,000 years ago.”

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