Proud to be an INDIAN by, Ravi Chauhan |
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. FACTS ABOUT INDIA
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 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 CE 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 the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July1987. 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.
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 largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas
Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as
5000 BCE during the Vedic period.Even today,the largest used number is
Tera: 1012.
USA based IEEE proves what has been a century old suspicion in the worldscientific community that the pioneer of wirelesscommunication 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 aptly called'Sudarshana'
was constructed on the hills of
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,
contracts,artificial legs, fractures, urinary stones and even
When Europeans were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago,Indians
established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
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