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Dear Iyengars,

Please take time to go through this message. We sholud be really proud

of being Indians!!.

 

Ramanuja Dasan,

Shriram

 

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Madan Mohan Tharakaram

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Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:41 AM

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Please go through below mentioned facts, which will make you

proud to be INDIAN.

 

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Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?

 

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Mr. Vinod Khosla

 

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Who is the creator of Pentium chip (90% of the today's

computers run on it)?

 

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Mr. Vinod Dham

 

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Who is the third richest man on the world?

 

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According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine,

He is Premji who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei

is at 6th position now.

 

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Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (World's No. 1

web based E-Mail program)?

 

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Mr. Sabeer Bhatia later on sold to Microsoft.

 

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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)?

 

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Mr. Arun Netravalli

 

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Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?

 

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Mr. Rajiv Gupta

 

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Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows

2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?

 

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Mr. Sanjay Tejwrika

 

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Who are the Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckensey &

Standard Charted?

 

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Mr. Victor Menezes, Mr. Rajat Gupta and Mr. Rana Talwar

 

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We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in

America, even faring better than the whites and the natives:

 

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There are 3.22 Millions of INDIANs in USA (1.5 % of population).

 

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YET, 38% of doctors in USA are INDIANs.

 

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12% scientists in USA are INDIANs.

 

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36% of NASA scientists are INDIANs.

 

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34% of Microsoft employees are INDIANs.

 

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28% of IBM employees are INDIANs.

 

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17% of INTEL scientists are INDIANs.

 

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13% of XEROX employees are INDIANs.

 

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Quotes 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.

 

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"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.

 

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"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.

 

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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

 

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India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

 

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India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented zero.

 

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The world's first university was established in Takshila

in 700 BC. More than 10500 students from all over the world studied

more than 60 subjects.

 

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The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was

one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of

education.

 

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According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most

suitable language for computer software.

 

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Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

 

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Although western media portray modern images of India as

poverty stricken and under developed through political corruption,

India was once the richest empire on earth.

 

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The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000

years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit

word NAVGATIH.

 

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Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he

explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that

Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the

European mathematicians.

 

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Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus came from India.

Quadratic Equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century.

 

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The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were

106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.

 

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According to the Gemological Institute of America, up

until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

 

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USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old

suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication

was Professor Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.

 

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The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in

Saurashtra.

 

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Chess was invented in India.

 

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Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and

health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like caesareans,

cataract, fractures and urinary stones.

 

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Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.

 

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When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest

dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in

Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

 

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The place value system, the decimal system was developed

in India in 100 BC.

 

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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) If we don't see

even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it

clearly means 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 work towards the welfare of INDIA.

Next Jainism spreads all over the world and you might be knowing that

US, UK, German and Japanese Universities has introduced Scholar degree

programmed on Jainism being a total Scientific Religion.

 

..sg

 

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Ram

 

 

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Ram