For Indians...Happy Independence Day!!!

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> FACTS TO MAKE EVERY Indian PROUD
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>
> Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (HP) ?
> A. Rajiv Gupta
>
> 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 Azim
> Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The
> Sultan of Brunei is at 6
> th 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 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.
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>
>
> 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.
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> 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 4
> th 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 k! nown as the
> Pythagorean Theorem. British
> scholars have last year (1999) officially published
> that Budhayan's
> works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before
> the European
> mathematicians.
>
> 9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from
> India . Quadratic
> equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th
> Century; the largest
> numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106
> whereas Indians used
> numbers as big as 10 53.
>
> 10. According to the Gemmological 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 .
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> 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.
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> 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 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.