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FACTS TO MAKE EVERY INDIA
PROUD
Q.
Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla
Q.
Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the
today’s computers run on it)?
A.
Vinod Dahm
Q.
Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According
to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji, who is the
CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at
6th position now.
Q.
Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1
web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q.
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)?
A. Arun
Netravalli
Q.
Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv
Gupta
Q.
Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay
Tejwrika
Q.
Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor
Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Q.
We 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.
Some
of the following facts may be known to you. 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 1000 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 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
4.
According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable
language for computer software.
5.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6.
Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty
striken and underdeveloped through political
corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7.
The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago.
The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8.
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, 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.
9.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from Inida. 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 Gemological 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.
12.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.
13.
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.
Quotes
about India.
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.
Frech
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 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 evershining 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.
Say
proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
Please
forward this as email to all known INDIANS…………….
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