Actor Naseeruddin Shah says it is sad that the country is losing its scientific temper. The veteran says with time, people of the country are moving away from science and drifting back towards believing in superstitions, which is an alarming thing to happen.
The actor, in an interview with The Lallantop, said Charles Darwin has been wiped out from textbooks and the next one to eventually be done with will be Albert Einstein. Shah wondered what a syllabus without them would look like.
“Instead of science, we are going back to superstitions. ‘This will cure cancer, this will make aircraft fly, that will do so and so.’ They have removed Charles Darwin from biology textbooks, the theory of evolution is gone. Next would be Einstein, then I don’t know what they will teach us,” Shah said.
The actor also claimed that disinformation was being spread even by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), where a prominent head credited Puranas for all scientific discoveries and slammed the West for taking “undue credit”. Shah said the claims were so preposterous, how could one even begin to counter that.
“The head of ISRO, I think she is a lady, says ‘Ye saari scientific discoveries purano mein hai (all these scientific discoveries were in the puranas) and that the West takes undue credit for this by considering them European inventions.’ Now how can you even argue to that? What conversation can you have with such a personality?” he added.
Naseeruddin Shah currently stars as Mughal emperor Akbar in ZEE5’s Taj: Reign of Revenge.
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