Shivkar talpade biography template

Indian aviation enthusiast

Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade(pronunciation^ⓘ) was an Indian instructor with an interest in Sanskrit and aviation. He lived in Mumbai, and is claimed to have constructed and flown an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft in Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical records document its existence.^[1][2][3]Pseudo-historical narratives about Talpade proliferated in India in the early s among adherents of the Hindu-nationalistright-wing.

These included the false claim that Talpade had "invented the modern aircraft".^[4][2][1][3]

Talpade's aircraft

Talpade is claimed to have constructed an unmanned, heavier-than-air aircraft, named Marutsakhā ("friend of the air"), and flown it above Bombay's Chowpatty Beach in ^[1][2] Contemporary accounts of a successful flight do not exist, and no reliable historical r