My India

INDIA IS THE BEST ............ ..

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.

You may know some of these facts. 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

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.

Charaka, 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 scientifi

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.

QUOTES ABOUT INDIA:

Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the

Indians, who taught us how to count, without

which no worthwhile 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.
With deepest regards, Balkar Singh

balkar17@yahoo.com