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.

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.



Frech 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 evershining 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.

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 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.

     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 the
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  is 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.