A politician who claimed the internet was invented in ancient India has been ridiculed among Twitter users.
"Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata," Biplab Deb, chief minister of the north-eastern state of Tripura, said during a function in the state capital Agartala.
The ancient epic of Mahabharata is thousands of years old and is one of Hinduism's important texts built around a dynastic struggle and a crucial war.
Videos of Deb's comments at the public function have been widely circulated on social media and aired on television channels.
Deb said the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata proved the existence of not just the internet, but also satellite technology in ancient India.
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"We had technology in those times ... Who knows what happened in the middle but those technologies existed thousands of years ago." he said.
"Why did Sanjaya narrate the Kurukshetra War when Siri could have done it?" one Twitter user posted.
Another posted a still of a group of princes from a television serial on the epic with the comment: "Discussion over slow speed of the internet."
"We don't need stand-up comedians when we have politicians like him!" said another.
