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In India, the surgeon Sushruta described numerous surgical operations, including the earliest forms of plastic surgery.^{[1][dubious – discuss][2]}

1. Reliability on the first source: First source named "We need to think and act" published in Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery in 2003 by Singh A, Sarangi D is in a letter format(correspondence)to its editor by individuals from personal perspective who are not subject experts(history on medicine), hence unreliable. This citation was already tagged dubious back in 2010. Should the citation be kept as its unreliability is evident?
2. Reliability on the second source: The second source named Rana RE, Arora BS (2002). "History of plastic surgery in India". Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. has the abstract of the kind as shown below

Abstract: The earliest replantations were done by Lord Shiva by attaching an elephant's head on his son's body and by Ashwini Kumars who successfully replanted the severed head of Yagna. Thus the history of plastic surgery in India dates as far back or before the Vedic times nearly 4000 years ago. See https://www.bioline.org.br/abstract?jp02024 It is evident from the Abstract itself that how reliable would that publication be as the author is directly crediting science to mythology and deities, an Indian version of Young Earth Creationism, ie., using religion and scriptures to explain science. There is already a huge existing trend in articles or sections within an article of Wikipedia relating to Ancient India and Mediaeval India citing such publications of Indian origin which contains heavy embellishments of the actual fact. Needs special attention when dealing with such sections or articles. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 14:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

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In our area 50 peoples in a 1000 are working in invisible cloths, but in total India how many people are working in invisible clothes ? 47.11.86.226 (talk) 18:41, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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