Hanuman Trumps Armstrong: Historians Caution Against Promotion of Myths as Facts
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 31 August 2025 | The Telegraph
During a recent interaction with BJP leader Anurag Thakur, a group of students from a school in Himachal Pradesh said Neil Armstrong was the first man to travel to space. Thakur wanted to set the record straight. “I think it was Lord Hanuman,” he said.
“We have thousands of years of tradition, knowledge and culture. If we do not know them, we will be confined to what the British told us,” the BJP MP told the gathering at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Una on National Space Day (August 23), resorting to mythology to find the answer to a general knowledge question…