Facts about our Indian people all over the world.
- Vinod Khosla is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Vinod Dahm the creator of Pentium chip where 90% of the today's computers run on it
- According to the latest world`s most richest man report ( on 2008 ), Among world`s top 6 richest man on the world, Our indians ranked pretty well, Where Lakshmi Mittal ranked at fourth, Mukesh Ambani ranked at fifth & Anil Ambani ranked at seventh.
- Sabeer Bhatia is the founder and creator of Hotmail ( Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program )
- Arun Netravalli 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)
- Rajiv Gupta is the GM of Hewlett Packard
- Sanjay Tejwrika is the new MTD ( Microsoft Testing Director ) of Windows 2000,responsible to iron out all initial problems?
- Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckinsey & Stanchart
- Malaysia`s second richest man is Ananda Krishnan.
- 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 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.
- India never invaded any country in her last 100000 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 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.
- Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
- Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Haraka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 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 6000 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.
- Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, 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 10 6(10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus Used numbers as big as 1053 (10 to the power of 53) with specific names as Early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 1012(10 to the power of 12).
- According to the Gemological 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. Jagdeesh 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. 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 125 surgical equipment were used.Deep knowledge of anatomy, 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.
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.
Our most valuable and most structive materials in the history of man are treasured
up in India only.
- Mark Twain
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.
- 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 Ambassador of China to USA
Let the world know what we stand for. Remember if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India community around us 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 community setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow. I am proud to be an indian. What about you ? Are you ?
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