Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. India was a knowledge society since Vedic times involving Maths, medicine, metaphysics, astronomy etc written in Sanskrit, but all such learning came back to the country several thousand years later as "discoveries by Western scientists", Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S Somnath has said. India News | ISRO Chief Hails Role of Sanskrit in India Becoming Knowledge Society Since Vedic Times.