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IAS Officer Blows A Conch Shell At Indian Science Congress, Claims It Can Turn White Hair Black
It's natural to blow one's own trumpet if you have a microphone and a room full of listeners. IAS officer Rajeev Sharma literally did so as he sounded the 'holy' conch for around two minutes at the 103rd Indian Science Congress on Tuesday.

Sharma wasn't being self-serving at the premier science event. Sharma, additional commissioner from Kanpur, was merely trying to show how, if done correctly, shankh-naad (blowing of the conch) could cure psychosomatic disorders. Because. "most problems in universe have simple solutions", said Sharma, attributing the quote to Albert Einstein.
In a redux of last year's controversial lectures that claimed superiority of Indian scientific thought during mythological times, Sharma offered no proof. Instead, he quoted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say that we have to use tradition to find sustainable solutions. So, the solution to the country's complex health problems could lie in blowing the shankh, apparently the essential part of daily prayer in "every household".