“Men who are perfectly satisfied with their own knowledge will never attempt to increase it.” - Henry Thomas Buckle Nuclear power. Electricity. Aircraft. Missiles. Advanced medicine. Ancient India in the Vedic age had them all, if you believe Hindu religious radicals (and some otherwise sensible people). Noted Sanskrit scholars have yet to detect advanced treatises on nuclear physics or recipes for weapons technology encoded within the verses of the Vedas. Composed orally in Sanskrit between 1500 and 1000 BC, the Vedas are religious incantations formally set down in writing sometime during the 1 st millennium BC. Some of the Vedic verses are hauntingly poetic, while others are intricately sophisticated and subtle in their theology. However, according to Professor Amartya Sen, “Despite the richness of the Vedas in many other respects, there is no sophisticated mathematics in them, nor anything that can be called rigorous...