Q. Who is the GM of
Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv
Gupta
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 Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The
Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th 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 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, even faring better than the
whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA
(15% 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.
-
India
never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
-
India
invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
-
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 4 th century BC was one of the greatest
achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
-
According
to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for
computer software.
-
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine
known to humans.
-
Although western media portray modern images of
India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption,
India was once the richest empire on earth.
-
The art of
navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago.. The very word
"Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
-
The value
of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of
what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last
year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th
Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
-
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations
were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the
Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as
10 53
-
According to the Gemmological Institute of
America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the
world.
-
USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old
suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was
Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir
and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra
-
Chess was
invented in India 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 .
-
When many cultures in the world
were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley India in 100 BC.


Quotes about 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.
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.
So let us all
seriously and with all our heart work towards the welfare of INDIA
.