India

Did you know?
India is the second most populace country in the world with more than 1.1 billion people. It is the home of the Indus Valley Civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires. It was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. India has influenced the world more than almost any other country.

"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

Interesting Facts
- India is the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world and one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old). 
- Indian movie industry, Bollywood, is the biggest movie industry in the world.
- Indians in the United States are the wealthiest ethinc grioups.
- India has the most post offices in the world.
- The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.
- India has the second biggest man power army in the world and it is one of the few countries who has nuclear weapons.
- India has more AIDS than any other country in the world.
- India has one of the highest prostitution rates in the world due to poverty, over population and corruption.

Some Indian Influences throughout the World
- Silicon Valley alone contains over 1,00,000 Indian millionaires.
- Sabeer Bhatia invented HOTMAIL and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million.
- Victor Menezes is No. 2 in CITIBANK.
- Shailesh Mehta is CEO of Providian, a top US financial services company.
- Rono Dutta has become head of the United Airlines, The biggest airlines in the world.
- Rana Talwar has become head of the Standard Chartered Bank PLC, One of the biggest multinational banks in Britain, while still in his 40's.
- Rajat Gupta is head of MCKINSEY the biggest management consultancy firm in the world. He now advises the biggest multinationals on how to run their business.
- Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world with steel plants in the US, Kazakhstan, Germany, Mexico, Trinidad & Indonesia.
- Subash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king. One of the few to beat Rupert Murdoch.
- You may not have heard of 48 year old Guru Raj Deshpande. His communications company SYCAMORE, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $ 30 billion, making him perhaps the richest Indian in the world.
- Arun Netravali has become president of Bell Labs, one of the biggest research and development centers in the world with 30,000 inventions and several nobel prizes to it's credit.

Indians make up only about 3.22 million or about 1.2 percent of United States but our achievements are far greater than our numbers.
38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians
34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians
28% of IBM employees are Indians
17% of INTEL employees are Indians
13% of XEROX employees are Indians
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.

Source : recently published in a German Magazine, dealing with WORLD HISTORY.

"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

Indias Influences from the Past
- The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
- Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).
- Chess was invented in India.
- Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
- The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
- The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD)  during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
- The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called  'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time,  the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
- The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
- Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
- Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
- The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
- Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.
- The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
- Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India.  Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.  during the Vedic period.  Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
-  Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )
- The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
- Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over  2600 years ago Sushrata & his team  conducted complicated surgeries like  cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
-  Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,  physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts. The list goes on and on.............

INDIA IS SIMPLY AMAZING