Facts to make every Indian proud !

FACTS TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD
 
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  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 are 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 -- faring even better than the whites and the natives.
 
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in the USA, constituting only 1.5% of the US population.
 
AND YET:
38% of the doctors in USA are Indians;
12% of the 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.
 
You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with the WORLD HISTORY.
 
FACTS ABOUT INDIA:
 
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of  history.
 
2. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'
 
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 stricken 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 caesareans,
cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia 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 100BC.
 
Some 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 grand mother 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 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. Please forward this email to all known INDIANS......
 
Regards,
An Indian

very nice khoj...
A work of a scientist.

It was given to me by my BOSS !  

An Indian....

lol Chimpu ye color saffron to ni lag raha mujhe.

Leaving some of them ........

How many of these ppl live in India ...whom are we being proud of?? ppl who left India for the sake of money or career .....is it justified
Those arent our country's achievement those are individual achievements of people who when come to india complain and make faces at every thing frm strayed dogs on roads to spicy food ......!!

Do we really need to be proud of such ppl?

The achievement of the country are really to be proud of

YO BABY  :!:  so true. v shudn't encourage brain drain.

good work