were Indian's always ahead of all countries in science?

The Wright Brothers were from India? And Leibnitz?

This is news to me.

Thanks Tejas for the q, something I have often wondered about. The Indians just seem smarter or at least more curious

Alexander Graham Bell too? How about Steve Jobs? Bill Gates?

Last I heard, aeroplanes were invented in Brazil. Try to keep up.

One day, a little lizard crawled onto my shoulder and whispered "I'm a brontosaurus on my mother's side". It was so sad, I couldn't disillusion him.

Okay, I stole that story from Heinlein.

The binary number system was first used in Africa (not India).

The Indians invented water on the moon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries

And the list goes on:

speaking about a TAMPON, Sonny sure was one

I really think that, if you think that you are correct in your assertion, then when did India lose this lead in the sciences, and why.
Countries like Britain , had "Golden Centuries" in which they learned and developed so many things, Yet today, while they arent the leader of the world, they certainly still have a huge output of science discoveries.

It appears to me that most of Indian trained scientists and engineers were trained in the USA, Britain, or Germany. I had so many employees who were originally trained BS or BGe in India in the geological and mining sciences and yet, they came over to the US for their MS's and PhD's