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"A man who believes in himself & not circumstances is the real winner” - Swami Vivekananda Please go through below mentioned facts, which will make

you proud to be an Indian Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?

Mr. Vinod Khosla Who is the creator of Pentium chip

(90% of the today's computers run on it)?

Mr. Vinod Dham Who is the third richest man on the world?

Mr. Azim Premji (Wipro) Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (World's No. 1 web based E-Mail program)?

Mr. Sabeer Bhatia who later sold it to Microsoft for over $400m. 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)?

Mr. Arun Netravalli

Who is the dean of world’s No.1 B-School for Marketing?

Mr. Dipak Jain, Kellogg School of Management Who is the CEO of Mckinsey world-wide?

Mr. Rajat Gupta Who is the CFO of Pepsico world-wide?

Ms. Indira Nooyi Who is Hewlett Packard Vice-president of Printing & PC Business?

Mr. Vyomesh Joshi Who are the Chief Executives of Citibank, HSBC & Standard Charted?

Mr. Victor Menezes, Mr. Aman Mehta and Mr. Rana Talwar Who is the owner of the largest steel company (LNM Group) in the world?

Mr. Lakshmi N Mittal

Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the Chinese, Jews, Germans & native Americans:

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. 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.

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One Billion Population. World’s largest democracy. Over 670 million people voted and changed the federal government (without bloodshed or turmoil) in May 2004. Free press, Freedom of speech, religion, language Unity in diversity. Over 3 races, 7 religions, 15 official written languages, 750 spoken dialects, 30 states but one India Transparent & independent judiciary, banking, finance, stock market systems. World’s largest film industry is Bollywood, India (Produces over 1500 films/year Vs 800 of Hollywood) 3rd largest economy in Asia. 2nd fastest growing major economy in the world.

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" - 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 China Ambassador to USA)

These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with

WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA  India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.  India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented zero.  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. § The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. § According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.  Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. 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. 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 Indians used numbers as big as 1053. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world. 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.

The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra. Chess was invented in India. 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 anesthesia was well known in ancient India. 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). The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC. India is the birthplace of major eastern religions including Hinduism (Oldest), Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Buddhism which spread as far as Japan in the East to Greece in the west, was founded by Siddartha Gautama Buddha (600 BC) in India.

Two of the world's six oldest languages Sanskrit and Tamil are from India. The other four are Chinese, Greek, Latin & Arabic. Rules of grammar was established over 3000 years back for these old languages. Many English words originated from Sanskrit & Tamil: Sanskrit: Guru, Pundit, Mantra, Sutra, Nirvana, Juggernaut, Raja, Yoga, Jungle, Orange, Singapore, Aryan, Mandarin (Govt Officer) etc. Tamil: Cash (Kaasu), Curry (Kari), Catamaran, Coolie (Kooli), Ginger (Injiver), Mango (Mann-gai), Mulligatawny, Pariah

Kalari Payat martial art was invented in 500BC in Kerala. Bought to China through Indian Monk, Bodhidharma. Shaolin temple monks consider this as parent of Kung-fu and Karate. Yoga and Meditation was invented in India. Kamasutra – World’s oldest treatise on Sex, written in India.

Over 1000 years before, before the invention of any modern day ships, planes, Cars, construction equipment, printing press, computer etc: World's largest epic/ poetry was written: Mahabharata (2 times the size of Illiad & Homer combined) was written in Sanskrit 6th century BC World's largest Moral code containing 1330 verses "Thirukural" was written in Tamil in 1st century BC Indians kings built temples 10 storeys high in 1300 years back (700AD) Indians invented alloys - Steel and Bronze – Eg: Chandra Steel Pillar in Delhi (Gupta Dynasty 4c AD) and Chola Five Metal Bronze Nataraja (3c AD) Indian Chola kings sent Marine expeditions in 700 AD across south-east Asia. Their influence is seen in temples of Angor Wat, Thailand, Indonesia-Bali even today. Sanskrit & Indian influence is still seen in ASEAN names: Singapore (Lion City), Garuda (Indonesia’s airline), King Rama/ Siam (Thailand), Bandar Sari Begawan (Monkey God), Bhoomi Putra (Malaysia).

SOME GREAT PAST INDIAN PERSONALITIES Atharvan - the man who first discovered the use of Fire. Dirghatamas - who studied the movements of the Earth,the Sun & the Moon & tried to find out the compass of the Lunar month & Solar Year. Charaka - the great Ayurvedic Physician. Vakbhata - the Bacteriologist who first gave the definition of Bacteria. Gautama - who enunciated the principal categories of knowledge, which are in use even today. Kanaada - the sage who first expounded the Atomic structure of the Universe. Kapila - whose speculations into science & psychology baffle even the modern thinkers of the West. Patanjali - who defined the “Origin of species” (Yoga Sutras-IV-2/3) long before Charles Darwin came upon the scene & whose Yoga scheme of the Pathway to Perfection is the craze of the West today. Jaimini - whose social & ethical regulations hold good even in the 20th Century A.D. with our misplaced knowledge about learning,culture & civilization. Atharvan - the man who first discovered the use of Fire. Lagadha - who was the first to rationalize astronomy. Bala Rama - the first Agricultural Engineer of the world, with the symbol of the Plough. Medhathithi - the super-genius who was the first to extend the numerals to billions by his contributions to the powers of ten.

SOME GREAT PAST INDIAN PERSONALITIES (Contd..) Bhaskaracharya - who stated about the mutual attraction that sustains the bodies in space. Udayana - who first defined a chemical action. Astronomers like Garga & Varaha Mihira who accurately fixed the duration of a Mahayuga as 43,20,000 years, as now accepted by Western Astronomers. Latadeva & Srisena who were the first to introduce Greek Astronomy into India. Amara Simha - the world’s first Lexicographer. Panini - the first and hitherto unparalleled Grammarian. Parasurama - the world’s first Reclamation Engineer, to whom goes the credit for the reclamation of the land originally known as “Bhargavakshetra”,which is today’s Kerala. Sage Bharadwaja - who presided over the first “Medicinal Plants Symposium” in the world, in about 700 BC. Kautilya - the great diplomat & economist. Bharata Muni - the father of the science & art of dancing. Kalidasa,Bhavabhooti,Bharavi,Sri Harsha & Magha, the celebrated poets and dramatists, for whom there are no parallels in any other part of the world. Shankaracharya - the exponent of Advaita, and the frist to visualize the Theory of Relativity and the Anti-matter Theory. Sage Veda Vyasa - whose Vedantic interpretation of the Supreme Reality which people are now beginning to have a glimpse into.

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. If we have the vision and work hard, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

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