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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

Date: Tue Jun 10, 2003 6:41 am
Subject: The Pride of India

http://www.sulekha.com/chpost.asp...ilosophy&show=0&cid=62614

Sitaram found this posted, and is simply passing it along for the
enjoyment and information of others:

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FACTS TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD

Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?

Vinod Khosla

Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of
the today's computers run on it)?

Vinod Dahm

Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1
web based email program)?

Sabeer Bhatia

Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the
creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?

Arun Netravalli

Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?

Rajiv Gupta

Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible
to iron out all initial problems?

Sanjay Tejwrika

Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?

Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives. There are 3.22
millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population).

YET,

38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently
published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS
ABOUT INDIA.

01. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of
history.

02. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero
(Sifar) ...originally shoonya in sanskrit.'

03. The world's first University was established in Takshila in
700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more
than 60 subjects.

The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the
greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

04. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most
suitable language for computer software and its origins are deep
rooted in India.

05. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

06. Although western media portray modern images of India as
poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption,
India was once the richest empire on earth which was deprived of its
wealth by invaders.

07. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years
ago. The
very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

08. The value of pi(Greek letter, value = 3.14159) was first
calculated by
Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have discovered his findings
and in 1999 officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the
6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.

09. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus came from India. Quadratic
equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest
numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used
numbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until
1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old
suspicion amongst
academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor
Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi. Mr. Bose also had lost the honor of
being the inventer of Radio just because he dint patent his radio
although it be ready hours before Marconi's version.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.

13. Formerly known as Chaturang then Shatranj and finally Chess
was invented in India.

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and
health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans,
cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well
known in ancient India.

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest
dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in
Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in
India in 100 BC.

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A few Quotes by noted personalities about India.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without
which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. *
Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human
speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the
great grand mother of tradition. * Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living
men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the
dream of existence, it is India. * French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries
without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. * Hu
Shih. (Former Chinese ambassador to USA)

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE
ENDLESS. BUT,

If we don't see even a glimpse of great India in the India that we
see today, it clearly does mean that we are not working up to our
potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining
and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to
follow. I hope you enjoyed it and will work towards the welfare of
INDIA.

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