proud to be an INDIAN

"I AM AN INDIAN'
 The co-founder of Sun Microsystems- Vinod Khosla
 the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)-Vinod Dahm
 The third richest man on the world 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 6th position now.
 The founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)- Sabeer Bhatia
 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)- Arun Netravalli .
 the GM of Hewlett Packard-Rajiv Gupta
 the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?-A. Sanjay Tejwrika .
 the Chief Executives of CitiBank-Mckensey & Stanchart,Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
 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.
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 You may know some of the following facts. 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. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'
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 4th century BC was one of greatest achievements 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. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
7. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.
8. 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 Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
9. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world
10. Chess was invented in India.

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