Anytime the topic of Indian vedic science comes up, there's always that one guy who mentions something about the 'Vyamanika Shastra', a Hindu book that told people how to make planes. Damn, we literally had a 'shastra' for planes - of course we were a science superpower. That is until you actually analyse the shastra and try to make a damn plane from it. We went through this detailed debunking of our high flying mythology by the fine folks at the Indian Institute of Science.