India’s Modi Merges Myth and Reality
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has caused consternation and controversy by telling an audience of doctors and scientists last weekend that plastic surgery and genetic science existed and were in use thousands of years ago in ancient India.
That, he said at the dedication of a hospital in Mumbai on October 25, was how the Hindu god Ganesh’s elepha…
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