India-what does it mean to you

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According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of 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, Gujarat (Western India). According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150BC a beautiful lake called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.

Chess (Shataranj 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 implements were used. A deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.

When many cultures were nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established the Harappan culture in the Sidhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

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

When the Maharaja of Patiala was snubbed by snooty British salesmen at a Rolls Royce showroom in the U.K., he hit back by buying up the entire consignment of 50 vehicles on display and turning them into garbage trucks back home. An English paper printed a picture and the story that made company representatives scurrying to Patiala with an olive branch.

From corporate bigwigs to technology whiz kids to Hollywood impresarios, American Indians have leapfrogged into mainstream America.

With Bobby Jindal one step shy of becoming the first American governor of Indian origin, in Louisiana.

American Indians are running Fortune 500 companies and regularly featured in top business magazines across the world. Rono Dutta, president of United Airlines; Rakesh Gangwal, president and CEO of US Airways; Kolkata-born Rajat Gupta, the managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co.

The number of New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems; Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million; Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, was at one time worth between $4 billion and $6 billion.

About one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while over 7 percent of valley's high-tech firms are led by Indian CEOs.

Technology of course is the known area of Indian expertise. The story has moved further. Prominent Indians who have become symbols of success for the Indian community are the late Kalpana Chawla, who became the first Indian American to fly in a US space shuttle; Walt Disney paid Manoj Night Shyamalan $2.5 million for the screenplay of the movie The Sixth Sense. Amartya Sen won the Noble prize in economics in 1998, joining laureates Har Gobind Khurana of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and S Chandrashekhar in medicine and physics.

After IT India now moves towards Biotechnology

According to one research India will emerge as a super power in IT and Medical Research by 2025.

NRIs head the following blue chip companies also:

AppNet American Online
Lucent Technologies
Proxicom Network Solutions
General Dynamics Corporation
Lazard Freres
Litton PRC
Columbia Capital
Primus Communications
Discovery Communications
Bell Atlantic Cable & Wireless
The Motley Fool
Hughes Network Systems
Cybercash
MCI Worldcom
PSINet
Motorola
MicroStrategy
Equalfooting.com
Telignet, Inc.
MindsBank
US Airways
CIENA Corp.
BioNetrix
Net 2000 Communications
Computer Associates
SAIC Startec
INOVA Health System
Cvent.com
Eglobe
Metrocall, Inc
DynCorp
Consumer Elec. Ass'n
The Carlyle Group
Cyveillance
Nextel Communications
Fannie Mae
Intelsat Draper Atlantic
Venture Fund, L.P
Freddle Mac
Manugistics
Raytheon Systems Corporation
Spacevest
HSBC
United Airlines

The co-founder of Sun Microsystems - the company which is sweeping the internet with its brainchild Java is NRI Vinod Khosla. The Creator of the Pentium Chip which runs 90% of the computers in operation is NRI Vinod Dahm. Azeem Premji, CEO, Wipro is the third richest person in the world. Arun Netravalli is the current president of AT&T Bell Labs (AT&T Bell Labs is the creator of C, C++, Unix to name a few). The GM of Hewlett Packard is Rajiv Gupta. Sanjay Tejwrika is the Testing Director of Windows 2000. The Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckinsey and Stanchart Bank are Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta and Rana Talwar respectively. Hotmail - the world's first No.1 web based e-mail program was created by Sabeer Bhatia.

World Top 10 - Countries With Highest Reported Crime Rates 
Country Crime Rate
Iceland 14,726.95
Sweden 13,455.08
New Zealand 12,586.64
Grenada 10,177.89
Norway 10,086.72
England & Wales 9,823.38
Denmark 9,460.38
Finland 8,697.37
Scotland 8,428.97
Canada 4,123.97

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Mera Bharat Mahaan !

Waise Swiss bhi kam nahi hai

Yes you can still be Indian !