Between four or five million Jains (followers of Jainism often have Jain as a last name, confusingly enough, like in the case of Gaurav Jain), primarily based in India, follow this non-theistic, nonviolent way of life. The most ardent Indian believers of Flat Earth Theory, instead, are a small minority of a religion otherwise known for its gentle inoffensiveness: Jainism. They seem to largely consist of holocaust deniers, conspiracy theory junkies, and the occasional biblical literalist, per this Reddit thread. But this didn’t stop flat earthers from bamboozling scientists with the clever use of canals in the mid 20th century and it isn’t stopping them now, especially with some celebrity names to add to the roster: basketball star Kyrie Irving has publicly proclaimed his belief in a flat earth and rapper B.o.B has started beef with astrophysicist and resident Twitter fun-killer, Neil DeGrasse Tyson with his diss track “ Flatline”.ĭespite a worrisome number of Indians believing that gaumutra (cow pee) will cure cancer, handing someone a knife will cause a souring of interpersonal relations, and cutting your nails on a Thursday causes the world to end, sincere desi Flat Earthers are hard to find. While Jain’s test anxiety is a sentiment one can empathise with (who hasn’t learned the ancient Indian art of mugging for an exam?), you would think that the earth being a sphere is an incontrovertible fact. Gaurav Jain is questioning something we were told and have believed in since we were kids: that Earth is a globe.
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