INDIA'S HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS -

ARYABHATTA

• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 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 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
• Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.
• The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
• 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 Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
• According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
• USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
• The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
• According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
• Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley Indus Valley Civilization)



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• The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

QUOTES ABOUT INDIA -

• Albert Einstein said: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
• Mark Twain said: "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 instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."
• French scholar Romain Rolland said: "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."
• Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

OBAMA AFRAID OF U.S. BEING OVERTAKEN ...         BY INDIA ?!


Obama says : "From the day I took office, I have been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious - that such efforts would be too contentious, that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for awhile," he said Wednesday. 

"For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?" Obama posed in his first State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress.

"You see, Washington has been telling us to wait for decades, even as the problems have grown worse, he said. "Meanwhile, China's not waiting to revamp its economy. Germany's not waiting. India's not waiting."

"These nations aren't standing still. These nations aren't playing for second place. They're putting more emphasis on math and science. They're rebuilding their infrastructure. They are making serious investments in clean energy because they want those jobs."

"Well I do not accept second-place for the United States of America, Obama said. "As hard as it may be, as uncomfortable and contentious as the debates may be, it's time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth."

"One place to start is serious financial reform," he said calling for building a "strong, healthy financial market" while guarding "against the same recklessness that nearly brought down our entire economy."

INDIA WILL OVERRUN OTHER COUNTRIES 
AS THE NEXT SUPERPOWER !!


MUMBAI (Commodity Online): India will be the leading global economic superpower in 20 years, according to more than half of the respondents in an unprecedented new survey of Indian entrepreneurs and senior managers. 

India is already moving up economic league tables with the 12th largest economy in the world, according to the World Bank.It also ranked 45th in the internationally respected 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index (www.prosperity.com) - which embraces social and political data to provide a wider measure of national success . Total Indian GDP has risen 193% per cent in the past decade, from USD 416 billion in 1998 to USD 1.22 trillion in 2008. 

According to respondents in the new survey of Indian entrepreneurs and business managers, India is now on course to outstrip the USA, Japan, Germany and the fast-emerging economic giant of China over the next two decades. 

In the first survey of its kind, the London-based independent think-tank Legatum Institute (www.li.com) commissioned pollsters YouGov to question nearly 2,400 Indian entrepreneurs, senior managers and aspiring entrepreneurs. 

The survey revealed startling levels of confidence among the country's wealth-creators with nearly nine in ten saying that they expected India to be in a stronger economic position in five years. Only one in five said that the world economic crisis had badly affected business in India. 

More than half the respondents (53 per cent) were extremely bullish about the future, saying they expected India to be the world's most important economic power by 2030.

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