What do the popular TV show Heroes, the great Mauryan emperor Ashoka and the Power of Flight have in common ?

Enter the world of the Nine Unknown Men.

After much research, it turns out that some of the claims made by Don Voniken who first talked about this secret society in his 1960s book, “Chariots of Gods”, turned out to be unscientific. Seers from everywhere, including the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, have confirmed that excerpts from books like the ‘Vaimanika Sastra’, largely communicated orally from person to person, do not seem to be models from an engineering lab but are more like literary miracles conjured by some Indian equivalent of Jules Verne.