Confluence

Published on 16th December, 2017, on www.confluence.ias.ac.in . I am often asked the question why as someone who studied medicine would I be interested in mythology. That is like wondering why children at school are taught literature and music, not just science and maths. Somewhere in the 19th century, we divided knowledge into scientific knowledge and non-scientific knowledge, and the former was placed on a higher pedestal, as ‘real’ knowledge. It’s a rather silly idea that many people cling to even today. To me personally science is a process of thinking based on observation, measurement, experimentation and reproducibility. This works very well when dealing with ..