Be Proud On Indian
Be Proud On Indian
Be Proud On Indian
I N D I AN
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, He is Premji who is the CEO
of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.
Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (World's No. 1 web based E-Mail
program)?
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)?
Who are the Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckensey & Standard Charted?
Mr. Victor Menezes, Mr. Rajat Gupta and Mr. Rana Talwar
We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives:
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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
These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with
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
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 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) 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.