New Delhi, March 9 -- With the Hindu nationalist BJP in the saddle of power for the last decade, there has been a deliberate promotion of a pattern of policy-making in education, which is based more on faith and glorification of those aspects of the past that are not verified by reason. As such, the Indian past has seen a good development of rational thought in the past. Charvak contributed to rational philosophy while Charat and Aryabhat contributed to medicine and astronomy in a very significant way. What is glorified today are aspects like plastic surgery being used to plant elephants' heads on Lord Ganesha or Karna being born from the ear being the example of genetic science. Not to be left behind aviation technology is also attribute...