INDIA

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Hyderabad: World's third best city to visit!
proud to be INDIAN 

Travel guide book, Lonely Planet has quoted Hyderabad as the world’s third best city to visit in the year 2013. The ‘city of pearls’, has been described as “elegant and 

blossoming”, by the Lonely planet.

Situated at the crossroad of north and south India, the city is known for its distinctive culture.

It attracts hordes of tourists each year, who take pleasure in sightseeing at places like, Chowmahalla Palace, Charminar and the Golconda fort. Hyderabad imbibes in itself an array of bazaars, galleries, libraries, sporting and other cultural institutions.

Lonely Planet’s top three cities are
- San Francisco
- Amsterdam
- Hyderabad (in 2012) 

Lord Macaulay said the following about India in 1835 in British Parliament.

"I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."

Sare Jahan Se Acha Hindustan Hamara !!!

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
Answer: Vinod Khosla an INDIAN

Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
Answer: Vinod Dahm AN INDIAN

Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
Answer: According to the latest report Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is the 3rd richest man in world in 2005.-AN INDIAN

Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
Answer: Sabeer Bhatia AN INDIAN

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)?
Answer: Arun Netravalli AN INDIAn

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
Answer: Rajiv Gupta AN INDIAN

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

Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
Answer: Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.-- INDIANS

*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). 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.

Who is the Owner of this Blog ? Archana,an INDIAN heheee... :)

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with world history.

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 by Aryabhatta.

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 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 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 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 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 100 BC.

QUOTES ON 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

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the 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 Romaine Rolland

"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

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."

Mark Twain

"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!"

Sylvia Levi

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!" 

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!" 

Swami Vivekananda, Great Indian Philosopher

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India"

Max Mueller

"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all." 

Will Durant

"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing" 

Apollonius Tyanaeus quotes (Neo-Pythagorean)




This is just a Sample of what my Country is...........


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