Madhukeshwar.T.Kampli: CELEBERATING REPUBLIC OF INDIA !

REPUBLIC OF INDIA
Satyameva Jayate
("Truth Alone Triumphs")
CELEBERATING !

"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. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!" --Mark Twain

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living menhave found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream ofexistence, it is India.

- French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centurieswithout ever having to send a single soldier across her border. - Hu Shih(former Chinese ambassador to USA)

Why we should, Proud To Be Indian ?

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 thetoday'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 AzizPremji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6thposition now.

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail

(Hotmail is world's No.1 webbased email program)?

A. Sabeer Bhatia

Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is thecreator 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.

Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America,

evenfaring 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% 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 byAryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than60 subjects... The University of Nalanda built in the 4thcenturyBC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field
ofeducation.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the mostsuitablelanguage 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 striken 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 yearsago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word
NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and heexplained the concept of what is now known as the PythagoreanTheorem.British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century which is long before theEuropean mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadraticequations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians usednumbers as big as 1053.

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until1896,India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicionamongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication wasProfessor 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 healthscientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, 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 over5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley Civilisation).

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India
in100 BC.

Some more facts about present "India"

· Kharagpur railway station has the world's longest railway
platform.

· India ranks first in mango production.

· The Manali-Leh road has the world's highest bridge.

· India ranks 1st in milk production.

· The Banyan tree at the botanical Gardens, Calcutta,
provides the largest canopy - 1.2 hectares.

· India ranks 1st in raw sugar production.

· India ranks 1st in tea production.

· India is the World's largest producer of mica blocks and
splits.

· India has the world's largest postal network.

· Indian Railways is the world's single largest employer.

· Every 3rd technical person in the world is an Indian

· The highest motor able road in the world is the Khardung-
La Nightingale

· LataMangeshkar has recorded the maximum number of songs -
30,000 songs in 20 different languages.

· India ranks 1st in jute production.

· India produces the maximum number of movies in the world.

· India has the world's largest rail network.

· Indian postal department department is the biggest postal
department in the world.

· Indian Railway is the biggest department in the world
headed by a single ministry