http://www.svabhinava.org/HinduCivilization/Dialogues/MeeraNanda.htm
"The leading Hindutva ideas-men go around calling themselves
"intellectual Kshatriyas". But Kshatriyas were only supposed to defend
dharma as a way of life. Why, then, are our Kshatriyas so bent upon
defending dharma as science? Why must they insist upon astrology, and
the entire Vedic tradition, 'scientific'? But first, get over whatever
mental blocks you may have against this oxymoron called 'Vedic
science,' which pairs the archaic, mystical, and unfalsifiable
worldview of the Vedas with science. Instead, get used to the
doublespeak of 'Vedic science'. Be prepared for a flood of books,
TV-shows and even new computer programs extolling the virtues of Hindu
sciences. After all, big money is behind it: tax-payers' rupees and
large grants from private foundations are pouring into "research
centres" dedicated to showing the scientificity of Hindu scriptures.
Everything Vedic--from yagnas to the gods of all things, to
reincarnation, karma and parapsychology--will make a claim for the
status of 'science'. And everything scientific--from the knowledge of
quantum physics to the laws of molecular biology and ecology--will be
declared to be already there in the Vedas. Modern science will be
treated as a western corruption of the non-dualist Vedic sciences
which can synthesise science with god, facts with values. We are
heading toward a schizophrenic national culture in which the
technological products of modern science will be eagerly embraced, but
the secular culture which science was supposed to help create will be
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