BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN
This article was submitted by N . RAGHU RAMAN, a year Engineering student [G.K.M. Engg. & Tech, Chennai]
Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla
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 Aziz Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro
Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th 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 GM of Hewlett Packard?A. Rajiv Gupta
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.
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% of 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.
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.
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 4th 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 striven 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
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.
9. 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.
10. According to the Gemological 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.
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 anesthesia 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.
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 ever shining 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.
Article submitted by Raghu Raman and Designed by ARAVIND.
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