Time machine inventors trying to go back to rewrite history: Ansari

In a jibe at the present regime for trying to appropriate historical figures for its advantage, former Vice President Hamid Ansari on Sunday said that a "new set of inventors" were trying to make a time machine in order to go back in time and change history.

However, Ansari stressed, that could not be done because efforts made to change history anywhere in the world have not succeeded.

"Years ago, a book called 'The Time Machine' was written by H.G. Wells. The idea behind the book was that there would be a form of technology by which you could go back to visit what has happened in the past. The book was a great success," Ansari said in his remarks at the release of book "Jawaharlal Nehru: An Illustrated Biography" compiled by A. Gopanna.

"But today I notice another set of inventors -- not writers, but inventors -- who are trying to create a time machine by which you can go back in history and rewrite it," Ansari said at an event here that was attended by former President Pranab Mukherjee and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among others.