More power to your shoulders, Devnani old chap. We need more ministers like Shri Devnani to let our countrymen, women and children know what a great nation we are. Except that I can’t, for the life of me, work out how a man can be born on a certain date and died on another date well before he was born! Which puts me in an awful quandary in trying to determine whether Brahmagupta was born before or after Archimedes. Now that we know all this, thanks in large measure to Minister Devnani, one must perforce cast doubts on the aforementioned Archimedes’ claim as well. Now the obvious question to ask is, why was this kept a closely guarded secret all these years? When the charlatan Newton claimed the gravity discovery as his own, why did not a phalanx of Indian scientists and politicians jump down Sir Issac’s throat and expose him for his chicanery? Couldn’t we have engaged a battery of legal eagles and nailed him on some patent infringement case? That's what I would like to know, as would millions of other patriotic Indians. We have all this from an unimpeachable source, namely, the esteemed Rajasthan Education Minister, Vasudev Devnani, the same gentleman who once spectacularly claimed that cows inhaled and exhaled oxygen! The well-informed Minister has doubtless done his homework, unlike those shameless copycats from the west, and we Indians can hold our heads high at the minister's stunning revelation. A mathematician and an astronomer, he would have had to expound his revolutionary theories in Sanskrit or whatever language they spoke all those millenniums ago. Born 287 BC and died 212 BC, the years reducing with the passage of time? How cool is that? But honestly, his running around in his birthday suit makes for damn sight more exciting copy. There are those who aver that he only exclaimed those words when he actually got into his bath. Yes, he said it twice over, and who can blame him. In his uncontrollable excitement, Archimedes is said to have jumped out of his bathtub, running naked all over the house yelling the magic words, ‘Eureka, Eureka’. Now the exclamatory ‘Eureka’, of course, has been credited to Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), his bathtub, and the subsequent displacement of water, known as the Archimedes principle of buoyancy. Enter stage left, Brahmagupta who saw the apple fall from a tree in his garden over 1,000 years prior to Newton's rip-off discovery and went, ‘Eureka, the apple fell from the tree in a straight, perpendicular line, drawn by the earth's core. Your days as the pre-eminent holder of the exalted title ‘Discoverer of the Law of Gravity’ is in grave peril. Sir Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727), move over.
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