Proud to be an Indian

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Proud to be an Indian !

 

* 12% of Scientists in America are Indians.

* 36% of NASA employees are Indians.

* 34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians

* 28% of IBM employees are Indians

* 17% of INTEL employees are Indians

* 13% of XEROX employees are Indians

* 23% of Indian Community in America is having Green-Card

 

You may know some of these facts. These facts were recently published in a

German Magazine which deals with WORLD HISTORY. FACTS ABOUT INDIA

 

1. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

 

2. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

 

3. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC.

More than 10,500 students from allover the world studies 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.

 

4. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the

most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine,

July 1987.

 

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine knownto humans. Charaka,

the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda

is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.

 

6. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of

development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of

British invasion in the early 17th Century.

 

7. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh6000 years ago. The

very word Navigation is derivedfrom the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word

navy is alsoderived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.

 

8. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by theearth to orbit the sun

hundreds of years before theastronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit

the sun:(5th century) 365.258756484 days.

 

9. The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained

the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this

in the 6thcentury long before the European mathematicians.

 

10. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations

were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers

the Greeks and the Romansused were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as

10**53(10 to the power of (53) with specific names asearly as 5000 BCE

during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera

10**12(10 to the powerof 12).

 

11. According to the Gemological Institute of America,up until 1896, India

was the only source for diamonds to the world.

 

12. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in

the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication

was Prof. JagdeeshBose and not Marconi.

 

13. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation wasbuilt in Saurashtra.

 

14. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called

'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta

Maurya's time.

 

15. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

 

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

scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans,

cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic

surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient

India. Over 125surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy,

physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and

immunity is also found in many texts.

 

17. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years

ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley

Civilization)

 

18. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in

100 BC.

 

QUOTES ABOUT INDIA

 

* Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how

to count, without which no worth while scientific discovery could have been

made.

 

* Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the

birth place of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of

legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most

constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

 

* French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face

of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very

earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

 

* Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered

and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send

a single soldier across her border.

 

All the above is just the TIP of the iceberg, the list could be endless.

BUT, 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 right path for rest of the world to follow.

 

Well didn't that make you a proud Indian???