Some interesting facts about India----- -----BY RAJAT

This is why India is called as the mother of all.

1. India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
2. India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.
4. Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software (Forbes magazine, July 1987).
5. Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.
6. The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word "Nav Gatih"
7. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D).
8. In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
9. According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.
10. IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
11. The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)
12. Chess originated in India.
13. Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.

CURRENT FACTS

1. VINOD KHOSLA is co-founder of the Sun Microsystems.
2. Vinod Dahm is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it).
3. Sabeer Bhatia is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program).
4. Arun Netravalli 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).
5. Rajiv Gupta is GM of Hewlett Packard.
6. Sanjay Tejwrika is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems.
7. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart

Quotes about India by famous people:

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.