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- There are 3.22 Million Indians in America
- 38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
- 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.
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India's contributions to the world society
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- Lesson of love: The Taj Mahal
- Lesson of Love Making: The Kama Sutra
- Lesson of Non-voilence: Mahatma Gandhi
- Lesson of Ahimsa ... The Love of Nature
- Lesson of Peace: Meditation and Yoga
- Lesson of Life: Happiness among poverty
- The Longest Surviving Ancient Civilization
- The Largest Technical Manpower in the World
- The Largest Film Industry in the World
- The LARGEST Democracy in the World
- India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of
history.
- India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented zero.
- The World's first university was established in Takshila in
700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over 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.
- 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.
- Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
Charaka,the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2,500 years ago. Today
Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
- 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.
- The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6,000 years
ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The
word navy is also derived from Sanskrit Nou'.
- Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit
the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to
orbit the sun: (5th century)365.258756484 days.
- 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 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
- 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 Hindus used
numbers as big as 10E53(10 to the power of (53) with specific names as early as
5,000 BC during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera
10E12 (10 to the power of 12).
- According to the Geological Institute of America, up until
1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
- 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. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
- The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.
- 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.
- Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
- Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2,600 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 125
surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology,
embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many
texts.
- When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000
years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley
Civilization)
- The place value system, the decimal system was developed in
India in 100 BC.
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QUOTES ABOUT INDIA
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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 birthplace of human speech, the
mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of
tradition. Our most valuable and most structive 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 evershining and
inspiring country setting a bright path for the rest of the world to
follow
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