DH Popcorn | Plane sight: Of glorious, mythical past!

Heard about BJP leader Anurag Thakur’s interaction with students earlier this week? He asked them who the first space traveller was.

“Neil Armstrong,” the kids said. “I think it was Hanumanji,” he shot back, pleased that he had got the right answer. Now, the one caught in a quandary is the teacher. Should she mark the students right or wrong when they match the mythical imagination of Thakur? And will she become anti-national if she marks certain answers wrong? Another leader, Shivraj Chouhan, said India was the first to fly airplanes. Remember the pushpaka vimana? Our past is truly glorious, no doubt. A small doubt. Did we also have leaders in those days mistakenly opening emergency exits?