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.
India is a vast country, a subcontinent, a land of sun, sand, snow, sea & Taj Mahal. Here, the snow-covered Himalayan ranges stretch fifteen hundred miles from North to East & some 4200 miles of luscious & sandy beaches line the South. To the East, it has hilly tea gardens & the town of Chirapunji, which receives the highest rainfall in the world, while the West houses a blazing desert of roaming camels & nomads.
India is a country which has given birth to great people & minds like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, King Akbar, King Ashoka , Gautam Buddha & the list goes on & on & on.It is a place know for its customs & traditions.Though India has been invaded & looted by Moguls, Britishers & many other European nations in the past, it has not lost its beauty & charm.India has an mysterious quality that is part myth and part legend.
DID U KNOW:
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 FACTS ABOUT INDIA:
1)India invented the Number system.
2)Chess was invented in India.
3)The decimal system was developed by Indians.
4)The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana an Indian.
5)Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India
6)India was once the richest empire on the face of this earth.
Actually there is more Indian achievements but I will have to keep my review short & sweet.
SOME MORE MODERN FACTS ABOUT INDIA TO MAKE EVERY INDIAN PROUD:
1)The co-founder of Sun Microsystems is Vinod Khosla.
2)The founder and creator of Hotmail is Sabeer Bhatia an Indian.
3)The third richest man on the world is Azim Premji.
4)The GM of Hewlett Packard is Rajiv Gupta an Indian.
5)India has the 2nd largest population in the world.
In the past few months India’s image has been tarnished by the Gujrat violence.I am sure India will once again emerged from this crisis & will set an example as the most secured & the most peaceful place to live in.
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.