No evidence of Sanjay’s ‘live telecast’ of the battle of Kurukshetra; nor was there any technology for test tube babies during the time of Ramayana.
Bengaluru: Politicians are at it again, proclaiming their “theories” as explanations for mythological events.
This time, a Uttar Pradesh minister has courted controversy by saying that Lord Rama’s wife Sita was a test tube baby.
Statement 1: “Technology existed that could telecast live the battle of Kurukshetra to Hastinapur.”
Statement 2: “Sita was born in an earthen pot. A technological project must have existed that could create test tube babies.”
Who said it: Uttar Pradesh deputy CM Dinesh Sharma.
Full statement: “Today we just type once “www” and news from one place reaches another instantaneously. I say this already existed in India. During the war of Mahabharata, Arjuna’s actions were instantaneously telecast to Sanjay and Dhritarashtra all the way from Kurukshetra to Hastinapur. There must have been a similar technology.”
“Sita was born from an earthen pot. There must have been some project or the other with the technological capability to create test tube babies, such that when King Janaka’s plough encountered this pot, the baby inside it went on to become Sita.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7qxCxHSQQ
Accuracy meter: 0/5
Explanation: Sharma is not even the first politician to make such unscientific claims. Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb had said in April that internet existed during the time of Mahabharata.
A test tube baby is not a baby that is born in a test-tube. It’s a zygote that is fertilised outside a woman’s body. An egg and a sperm are made to undergo fertilisation in a test tube through careful monitoring, and once fertilisation occurs, the zygote is actually transferred back into the womb of a woman to make for a successful pregnancy.
Not only did the UP minister get the speculation wrong, he also got the technical definition of a test-tube baby wrong.