Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
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
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.
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 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achieveme! nts 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 de! rived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. 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.
9. 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 10 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.
10. According to the Gemmological 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 a! cademics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Pr! ofessor 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.
creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? - Vinod Dahm
third richest man on the world? - According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji,
the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program) - Sabeer Bhatia
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)- Arun Netravalli
new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems- Sanjay Tejwrika
Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart
-Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
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 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.
Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.
2006-09-30 23:23:09 · 17 answers · asked by dr_asif_bareilly 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Look I generally have no problem with Indians, though be careful and call yourselves native Indians, some people here might get upset.
Did you guys also invent wishful thinking? Your list above is loaded with misinformation which would be too lengthy to go into one by one. You also invented the caste system, pay for wives, over population, filthy holes in the ground and disease. If you are going to claim all the good take the bad with it.
Next time keep your question to under a full length novel. Your food still sucks.
2006-09-30 23:34:44 · answer #1 · answered by Colorado 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I don't think anyone has a problem with India. I find Indian people very likable. And the Taj Mahal, what a testament of a mans love for his wife. I do have a problem with the caste system though. I believe everyone was created equal and nobody should be doomed to poverty just because they were born into the wrong caste. I also believe that America has so many professionals that are Indians is because this is the land of opportunity. And of coarse America is made up of people from every nation on earth for that very reason.
2006-10-01 02:46:25 · answer #2 · answered by Captleemo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since you started off with Indians in America I'll say a little. America is the only country in the world that extends full membership to outsiders. An American could spend 40 years in India but would not become Indian. In America, by contrast, hundreds of millions have come from far-flung shores and over time they, or at least their children, have in a profound and full sense "become American."
Ask a million Indians which country they would rather live in. America or India? I believe the majority would NOT pick India. The whole first part of your question is about U.S. born Indians. Anyone can pick great things from any heratige accomplished in the U.S. I don't believe the same thing can be said about India. Indian scientists, engineers, economists and managers go away to the US and help increase its economic and technological power. So where does that leave India and why do they do that? And how can you compare a very old country to (in comparison) a very young one?
India is getting pretty good at politically advertizing its country, which you have fallen into. saying it is a robust and important economic power and that every Indian today is well off, that every farmer uses mobile telephones to inform his wife of his lunch menu and every villager is now experiencing broadband and plushly carpeted motorways. When in fact in India every morning a person can see thousands defecate on the roads because they haven’t been able to provide toilets and basic housing? How can one explain away street urchins and begging children when one actually sees them at traffic intersections. India should not concentrate on what advances they can make in the U.S. but concentrate on what they can do to help the enormouse poverty its country experiences everywhere everyday. When you do something about that, then blow your horn here and be proud.
2006-10-01 00:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by Rick 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Im glad your proud of where you come from, everyone should be but...with every country they can make a list of there accomplishment and things that were created by them...The only way i would visit your country is if you had a Taco Bell, i cant stand Indian food, i dated an Indian guy once, i think it was the food that drove me away...
2006-09-30 23:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by ABBYsMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations, and thank you for the facts, As for my personal view, my only gripe with India is the cast system ... and certain garish art. Aside from that, I have not had anything ill for India. I passed on this info to 91 of my very closets friends.
2006-10-01 01:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And you should be proud to be an Indian.
I don't think that India or Indians are frowned upon on these boards. Why should you feel that people are going to complain?
Ehh.. I guess I take that back. I forgot the mentality of some of these fools.
2006-09-30 23:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for you Asif.
I'm Australian and I'd dispute some of your assertions (pi - do you mean 3000 years ago or 1400 years ago?, Marconi was well aware he did not invent wireless telegraphy, he just refined it to the point of being useful) but overall I'd agree.
No country has the monopoly on invention or culture.
2006-09-30 23:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you are indian american. and it just goes to show how anyone can come to the usa and make is quite succesfully!
welcome and congrats for your wonderful contributions to society.
if all people where like this we would have peace in the world.
a pew poll said india has the highest percentage of people favorable towards the us of all nations.
cool thing!
2006-10-01 03:29:11 · answer #8 · answered by CCC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? The bible is God's word or whatever and if you're saying "well don't just read that cause it won't make sense read the scholar's writing too" then you're saying the bible won't make sense and you shouldn't have to read any scholar's writing's to understand the bible. The bible is supposed to be the words to live by and if you need to further understand it with scholars writing's then you know in your heart the bible is pure crap.
2016-03-27 00:41:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WELL IF WE AMERICANS GOT TAX FREE LOANS FOR 3 YEARS OF OPENING A BUSINESS WE MAY HAVE SOME MONEY TOO, HOWEVER WE DON'T HAVE THAT OPTION AND WE WOULDN'T BE GREEDY ENOUGH TO SELL THE BUSINESS TO ONE OF OUR RELATIVES AFTER 3 YEARS SO WE COULD ROB THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MORE.
NOT TO MENTION THAT YOU ALL GET TO GO TO SCHOOL HERE FOR FREE SO THAT EXPLAINS WHY THERE ARE MANY INDIAN DOCTORS, DENTISTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL JOBS DOMINATED BY INDIANS. IF WE WENT TO SCHOOL FOR FREE, WE'D DOMINATE THOSE FIELDS TOO, BUT WE CAN'T BECAUSE WE ARE TOO BUSY PAYING TAXES TO PUT YOU THROUGH SCHOOL.
2006-10-01 10:52:13 · answer #10 · answered by mwha1369 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋