Shekhar's India
Some of these facts may be known to you.
* India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of
history.
* India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
* 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 largest of its kind.
* 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 human civilization.
* Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development,
India was the richest country on earth until 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.
* 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;
The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 to the power of 6, whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53.
* USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community; pioneer of Wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
* The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
* 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.
* When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).