Kalidasa, according to legend was sitting on the branch of a tree and cutting its base, and he went went on to become a great poet. In today's India, such genuises go on to become political leaders e.g. Uma Bharati!) or "scientists" (innumerable examples). The explanation for my having placed the word "scientists" within quotation marks is that these are the persons favoured by the political leaders, and almost all of them are fakes. They are people who had the stupidity ascribed to Kalidasa, but, unlike Kalidasa, were not rid of that stupidity through the blessing of Goddess Kali.
