Say proudly u r an INDIAN..

Dear indians, say proudly u r an indian.. But dont just pat the backs by looking into the past, lets make the future..

pls go through the following few inspirational facts..

Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
Mr. Vinod Khosla

Who is the creator of Pentium chip (90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Mr. Vinod Dham

Who is the third richest man on the world?
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)?
Mr. Sabeer Bhatia later on sold to Microsoft.

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)?
Mr. Arun Netravalli

Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
Mr. Rajiv Gupta

Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
Mr. Sanjay Tejwrika

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:
There are 3.22 Millions of INDIANs in USA (1.5 % of population).

o YET,38% of doctors in USA are INDIANs.
o 12% scientists in USA are INDIANs.
o 36% of NASA scientists are INDIANs.
o 34% of Microsoft employees are INDIANs.
o 28% of IBM employees are INDIANs.
o 17% of INTEL scientists are INDIANs.
o 13% of XEROX employees are INDIANs.

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.

You may know some of the following 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 1000 years of history.
§ India invented the number system. Aryabhatta invented ZERO.
§ The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10500 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.
§ According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
§ Ayurveda earliest school of medicine known to humans.
§ Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty stricken and under developed through political corruption, India was once
the richest empire on earth and will again be one in future.
§ The art of navigation was born in the river 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 Budhayana's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European
mathematicians.
§ Algebra, Tigonometry 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 Bose and not Marconi.
§ 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 caesareans, 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.


I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA. Next Hindusim spreads all over the world and you might be knowing that US, UK, German and
Japanese Universities has introduced Scholar degree programmed on being Hindusim a total Scientific Religion.

Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN .....!!!
Let us keep achieving.

dear citizens of other countries.. u r free to send ur achievements so that we can put it here for everybody to know n understand.. afterall, we r all human beings!! :) C U..