JAI HIND ……….. ..JAI BAHRAT………….JAI HINDUSTAN
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I N D I A
5,000 year old ancient civilization
325 languages spoken – 1,652 dialects
18 official languages
29 states, 5 union territories
3.28 million sq. kilometers - Area
7,516 kilometers - Coastline
1.3 Billion Population.
5600 dailies, 15000 weeklies and 20000
Periodicals in 21 languages with a combined circulation of 142 million.
GDP $576 Billion. (GDP rate 8%)
Parliamentary form of Government
World’s largest democracy.
Worlds 4th largest economy.
World-class recognition in IT, bio-technology, and space.
Largest English speaking nation in the world.
3rd largest standing army force, over 1.5Million strong.
INDIA has the largest movie industry of world
Business Automobile industries
Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility, its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others.
Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.
India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Suzuki, which makes Maruti in India, has decided to make India its manufacturing, export and research hub outside Japan.
Hyundai India is set to become the global small car hub for the Korean giant and will produce 25k Santros to start with.
By 2010 it is set to supply half a million cars to Hyundai Korea.HMI and Ford.
The prestigious UK automaker,
Aston Martin contracted prototyping its latest luxury sports car, AM V8 Vantage, to an Indian-based designer
I N D I A : Technologies Superpower
Geneva-based STMicroelectronics is one of the largest semiconductor companies to develop integrated circuits and software in India.
Texas Instrumentswas the first to open operations in Bangalore, followed by Motorola, Intel, Cadence Design Systems and several others.
80 of the World’s 117 SEI CMM Level-5 companies are based in India.
5 Indian companies recently received the globally acclaimed Deming prize. This prize is given to an organization for rigorous total quality management (TQM) practices.
15 of the world's major Automobile makers are obtaining components from Indian companies.
This business fetched India $1.5 Billion in 2003, and will reach $15 Billion by 2007.
New emerging industries areas include, Bio-Informatics, Bio- Technology, Genomics, Clinical Research and Trials.
World-renowned TQM expert Yasutoshi Washio predicts that Indian manufacturing quality will overtake that of Japan in 2013.
McKinsey believes India's revenues from the IT industry will reach $87 Billion by 2008.
Flextronics, the $14 billion global major in Electronic
India: Trade
Tata Motors paid $ 118 million to buy Daewoo commercial vehicle Company of Korea.
Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company, gets 70% of its $1 billion revenue from overseas operations and 40% from USA.
Tata Tea has bought Tetley of UK for £260M.
India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports were worth $6 Billion in 1999.
About 9 out of 10 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India.
India's trade with China grew by 104% in 2002 and in the first 5 months of 2003, India has amassed a surplus in trade close to $0.5M.
Mobile phones are growing by about 1.5Million a month. Long distance rates are down by two-thirds in five years and by 80% for data transmission.
Wal-Mart sources $1 Billion worth of goods from India- half its apparel. Wal-Mart expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the next couple of years.
GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million worth of apparel from India.
India: Self-Reliance
India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.
India's INSAT is among the world's largest domestic satellite communication
systems.
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with most of the components like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine, electronic modules all manufactured by public and private Indian industry.
Kalpana Chawla
Back in 1968, India imported 9M tonnes of food-grains to support its people, through a grand programme of national selfsufficiency which started in 1971, today, it now has a food grain surplus stock of 60M.
India is among the 3 countries in the World that have built Supercomputers on their own. The other two countries being USA and Japan.
India built its own Supercomputer after the USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer back in 1987.
India’s new ‘PARAM Padma’ Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.) is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this.
India: Pharmaceuticals
The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10% annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008.
Its exports are over $2 billion. India is among the top five bulk drug makers and at home, the local industry has edged out the Multi-National companies whose share of 75% in the market is down to 35%.
Trade of medicinal plants has crossed $900M already.
There are 170 biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development and manufacture of genomic drugs, whose business is growing exponentially.
Sequencing genes and delivering genomic information.
India: Foreign Multi-National Companies
Top 5 American employers in India:
General Electric: : 17,800 employees
Hewlett-Packard : 11,000 employees
IBM : 6,000 employees
American Express : 4,000 employees
Dell : 3,800 employees
General Electric (GE) with $80 Million invested in India employs 16,000 staff, 1,600 R&D staff who are qualified with PhD’s and Master’s degrees.
The number of patents filed in USA by the Indian entities of some of the MNCs (upto September, 2002) are as follows: Texas Instruments - 225, Intel - 125, Cisco Systems - 120, IBM - 120, Phillips - 102, GE - 95.
Staff at the offices of Intel (India)has gone up from 10 to 1,000 in 4 years, and will reach 2000 staff by 2006.
GE's R&D centre in Bangalore is the company's largest research outfit outside the United States. The centre also devotes 20% of its resources on 5 to 10 year fundamental research in areas such as nanotechnology, hydrogen energy, photonics, and advanced propulsion.
It is estimated that there are 150,000 IT professionals in Bangalore.
India: R&D Labs
India: BPO
The domestic BPO sector is projected to increase to $4 billion in 2004 and reach $65 billion by 2010. (McKinsey & Co.).
The outsourcing includes a wide range of services includingdesign, architecture, management, legal services, accounting and drug development and the Indian BPOs are moving up in the value chain.
There are about 200 call centers in India with a turnover of $2 billion and a workforce of 150,000.
100 of the Fortune 500 are now present in India compared to 33 in China.
Cummins of USA uses its R&D Centre in Pune to develop the sophisticated computer models needed to design upgrades and prototypes electronically and introduce 5 or 6 new engine models a year.
Business Week of 8th December 2003 has said "Quietly but
What world Leader view about India :
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet and writer of India’s national anthem and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, (1861-1941)
"Oneness amongst men, the advancement of unity in diversity – this has been the core religion of India.“
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Mahatma Gandhi :(1869-1948):
Gandhi was once asked what he thought about Western Civilization. His response was: "I think it would be a good idea.”
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.“
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.”
“If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.”
“Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what
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Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621-1675):
The Kashmiri Brahmins, who were being persecuted by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, seeked the council of Guru Tegh Bahadur. The 9th guru of the Sikhs upon hearing of the Brahmins predicament, responded: “Unless a holy man lays down his head for the sake of the poor Brahmins, there is no hope for their escape from imperial tyranny.”, his young son reminded him “Revered father, who would be better equipped for this than yourself?”
During Guru Tegh Bahadur’s subsequent imprisonment by Aurangzeb, he spoke out: “Hinduism may not be my faith, …but I would fight for the right of all Hindus to live with honour and practice their faith according to their own rites…. “
“All men are created by God and therefore must be free to worship in any manner they like. I neither convert others by force, nor submit to force, to change
my faith.”The enraged Aurangzeb, upon realising Guru Tegh JI.
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Sir C.V. Raman, (1888 – 1970)
· 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics for work on scattering of light and Raman effect.
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Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, (1858 – 1937)
· USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless radio communication was Professor Jagdish Chandra.
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Swami Vivekananda: (1863-1902):
“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.
We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.
I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.
I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny.
I am proud to belong to the religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of the grand Zoroastrian nation.
I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated
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Sri Aurobindo:(1872-1950):
“…Like the majority of educated Indians, I have passively accepted without examination, the conclusion of European scholarship.”
“…That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite.”
"...The mind is not the highest possible power of consciousness; for mind is not in possession.
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Satyendranath Bose, (1894-1974)
Indian Physicist, who solved one of the mysteries of quantum mechanics, showing that in the quantum world some particles are indistinguishable. His collaborations with Albert Einstein led to a new branch on statistical.
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Srinivasa Ramanujam,(1887 – 1920):
Great Indian Mathematician, whose interest fromacademics at Trinity, College, Cambridge, led him to collaborate there and postulate and prove well over
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, (1910-1995):
1983 Nobel Laureate in Physics. His many contributions to physics, on the structure and evolution of stars including.
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Har Gobind Khorana, (b-1922 ):
1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine for work on interpretation of the genetic code .
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Amartya Sen, (b-1933):
1998 - The Nobel Prize for Economicsfor his redefining work on ethical welfare economics. Currently residing as Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, after stepping down from the prestigious post of Master of Trinity
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Quotes
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American nuclear physicist (1904-1967):
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. . . . Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. “
Oppenheimer "the father of the atomic bomb" quoting from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the mushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb in New Mexico, U.S.A., on July 16, 1945.
“Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. “
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Victor Cousin, French Philosopher (1792-1867):
"When we read the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East –above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe – we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the
Native land of the highest philosophy.“
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Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA (1891-1962):
"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”
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Dr. Arnold Joseph Toynbee, British Historian (1889-1975):
"It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending, if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history, the only way of salvation for mankind
is the Indian way."
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Albert Einstein (1879 -1955):
“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.” "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us
how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.“
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Will Durant, American historian, (1885-1981):
"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages;
she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our
mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy.
Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".
“Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us
the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind.
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Sir William Jones, Jurist, (1746-1794):
“…The Sanskrit language is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek,
more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
“... a stronger affinity than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong,
indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without first believing them
to have sprung from some common…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher (1803-1882):
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.“
“The Indian teaching, through its clouds of legends, has yet a simple and grand religion, like a queenly countenance seen through a rich veil. It teaches to speak truth, love others, and to dispose trifles.
The East is grand - and makes Europe appear the land of trifles. ...all is soul and the soul is Vishnu ...cheerful and noble is the genius of this cosmogony”
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Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher (1788-1860):
"In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the
Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life – it will be the solace of my death."
“It is the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in
the world.
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Henry David Thoreau, American Philosopher (1817-1862):
“…In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmological philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
“…Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of the sectarianism.
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Mark Twain, American Author (1835-1920):
“This is India!
The land of dreams and romance,
of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty,
of splendor and rags,
of palaces and hovels,
of famine and pestilence,
of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps,
of tigers and elephants,
the cobra and the jungle,
the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues,
of a thousand religions and two million gods,
cradle of the human race,
birthplace of human speech,
mother of history,
grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition,
whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations
– the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable
interest for alien persons,
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Ken Wilber American Philosopher and Author (b-1949):
“Larry [Warchowski] is just about as philosophically /spiritually well read as anyone you're likely to find, and The Matrix films are a stunning tribute to that fact.
Larry said that when he found Ken's work,"It was like Schopenhauer discovering the
Upanishads."
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Professor Max Muller, (1823-1900):
"India, what can it teach us?, "If I were to look over the whole world to find out the
country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow, in some parts a very paradise on earth, I should point to India.
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most developed some of it choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which will deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India.
And if I were to ask myself from what literature we,here in Europe, who have been nurtured most exclusively on the thoughts of the Greeks and Romans and of the Semitic race and the Jewish may draw that corrective which is most wanted.
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George Harrison, Beatles (1943 - 2001):
"For every human there is a quest to find the answer to why I am here, who am I,
where did I come from, where am I going. For me that became the most important
thing in my life. Everything else is secondary."
"Here everybody is vibrating on a material level, which is nowhere. Over there [India],
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Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, (1895-1976):
“India was China’s teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and world’s teacher in Trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess as well as in philosophy, and she inspired Boccasccio, Goethe, Schopenhauer and Emerson."
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Voltaire Author and Philosopher, (1694-1778):
"It does not behove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indian
and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity."
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Aldous Huxley, English novelist (1894-1963):
“The (Bhagavad) Gita is one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the perennial philosophy ever to have been done. Hence its enduring value, not only for the Indians, but also for all mankind. It is perhaps the most systematic spiritual statement of the perennial philosophy. “
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Dalai Lama, (b-1935):
“Hindus and Buddhists, we are two sons of the same mother."
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936):
“Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Hindu brown. For the Christian riles and the Hindu smiles and weareth the Christian down; And the end of the fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late deceased and the epitaph drear , ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the east’ ".
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John Archibald Wheeler Theoretical Physicist, who coined “Black Hole”(b-1911):
“I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times.”
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Guy Sorman, author of “Genius of India”:
“Temporal notions in Europe were overturned by an India rooted in eternity.The Bible had been the yardstick for measuring time,but the infinitely vast time cycles of India suggested that the world was much older than anything the Bible spoke of.
It seem as if the Indian mind was better prepared for the chronological mutations of
Darwinian evolution and astrophysics.”
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Adam Smith, Father of economics, and author of “Wealth of Nations”: (1723-1790)
"The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company [British East India Company] which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies[India], cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries."
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H.G. Wells,Sociologist, and Historian and Author of “Time Machine” and “War of the Worlds”(1866-1946):
"The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favourable conditions, they built a character – meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India."
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Friedrich Mejer:
“It will no longer remain to be doubted that the priests of Egypt and the sages of Greece
have drawn directly from the original well of India, that it is to the banks of the Ganges and the Indus that our hearts feel drawn as [if] by some hidden urge.”
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French Astronomer, (1736-1793):
“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not
even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th
century).
…The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and -
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman (1856-1950):
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“The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks.
On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand.”
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Dr David Frawley, American Teacher, Doctor, Author, Speaker, Historian
“India possesses a great indigenous civilization dating back to 7000 BC, such as recent
archaeological discoveries at Mehrgarh clearly reveal. It had the most extensive urban culture in the world in the third millennium BCE with the many cities of the Indus and Sarasvati rivers.When the Sarasvati river of Vedic fame dried up in the second millennium BCE, the culture shifted east to the more certain rivers of the Gangetic plain,
which became the dominant region of the subcontinent
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Gone is the old idea of the Aryan invasion and an outside basis for Indian culture. In its place is the continuity of a civilization and its literature going back to the earliest period of history. Unfortunately, over the first fifty years since Independence, India has not discovered its real roots. Its intellectuals have mimicked Western trends in thought.
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Francois Gautier, French Journalist and Writer (b-1950-):
“Cry! O my beloved India!“ “The BJP government has fallen. You are exulting, O
Christians! You seem to forget how much this country gave you: the first Christian community in the world, that of the Syrian Christians, was established in Kerala in the 1st
century.”
The BJP government has fallen. You are rejoicing, O Muslims! You seem to forget that Arab merchants came to Hindu India long before the first Muslim invasions of the 7th century. They were also welcomed and allowed to practise their religion in
peace and to trade as they liked.
The BJP government has fallen. You are rejoicing, O Marxists! But do you understand that Marxism is dead all over the world; and that even in China it is Marxism in name only, as its government actually implements capitalist policies?
The BJP government has fallen. Your are rejoicing, O members of the Indian intelligentsia! You think that reading the latest New York Times bestseller, speaking polished English, and putting down your own countrymen.
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Annie Wood Besant, British Theosophical Society, (1847-1933):
“After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophical and none so spiritual than the great religion known by the name of Hinduism.
Make no mistake, without Hinduism, India has no future.
Hinduism is the soil in to which India's roots are stuck and torn out of that she will inevitably wither as a tree torn out from its place.
And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism - who shall save it?If India's own children do not cling to her faith
- who shall guard it?
- India alone can save India and India and
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Ex-Prime Minister,
Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
A treaty was signed on 6 January, 2004, establishing a South Asian Free Trade Area among the seven SAARC countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives) in the region.
India committed to a South Asian Union as the ultimate objective, with mutual security cooperation, open borders and a single currency in Southern Asia in the long run.
"The bonds of ethnicity and culture which hold together the peoples of this region are more enduring than the barriers of political prejudice that have been erected quite recently.“
”….Friends, India is ready to do everything
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Dr Abdul Kalam, President of India, father of India’s space, missile and satellite programme and author
of “India 2020 Vision”.
“I have three visions for India.”
“ In 3000 years of our history people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Why?
Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and
Nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us. “
My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have Been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10% growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured.
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Apollonius Tyaneus Greek Thinker and Traveller,
1st Century AD
"In India
I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing."
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The Encyclopedia Britannica says:
"Man must have an original cradle land whence the peopling of the earth was brought about by migration. As to man’s cradle land, there have been many theories but the
weight of evidence is in favour of Indo-Malaysia.”
"If there is a country on earth which can justly claim the honour of having been the cradle of the Human race or at least the scene of primitive civilization, the successive developments of which carried into all parts of the ancient world and even beyond, the blessings of knowledge which is the second.
Civilization of india
It is the only society in the world which has India never invaded any country in her lastIndia was the richest country on Earth until the time of the British Robert Clive’s personal wealth amassed from the blunder of Bengal during It has been estimated that the total amount of treasure that the British looted from India had already reached £1,000,000,000 (£1Billion) by 1901.
A Brief History of Time
Vedic Civilization
Indus & Saraswati Civilizations
Rise of Jainism and Buddhism
Mauryan Period
Golden Age of Indian Arts & Sciences
Muslim Invasions
The Mughal Empire
Portuguese Invasion
The British East-India Company
The British Empire
India's Freedom Struggle
Independence
Modern India 2020 Vision
India Invention
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Aryabhatta was the first to explain spherical shape, size diameter, rotation and correct speed of Earth in 499 AD.
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. Students from all over the World studied more than 60 subjects.
The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Sanskrit is considered the most powerful language.
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 civilization.
Christopher Columbus was attracted India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered the American continent by mistake.
The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The word ‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word
NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Languages of India
Hindi
Sanskrit
Tamil
Gujarati
Urdu
Punjabi
Malayalam
Bengali
Marathi
Konkani
Kannada
Assamese
Telegu
Oriya
Rajasthani
Vedic Philosophy
The Vedas are the oldest written text on our planet
Vedic Philosophy
The vedas are the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of the Indian civilization and are the earlist literary records of the human mind.
They have been passed to oral tradition for over 10000 years and first appeared in written from between 2500- 5,000
The ancient Vedic Hymns
Rig Veda – Knowledge of hymns. (10859 verses)……“There is only one truth, only one man describe it in different way “
Yajur Veda- Knowledge of classical Music.(3988 verses)
Ayur Veda- Knowledge of medicine.(100,000 verses)
Sulbha Sutra- Knowledge of mathematics.
Yoga Sutra-Knowledge of meditation.
Kama sutra-Knowdelge of Love and Sex
Upanishads
· Jyotisha- Astrology and Astronomy
· Kalpa- Ritual and legel matter
· Aitareya-Creation of universe, Man and Evolution
· Chandogya-Reincarnation, Soul.
· Kaushitaki- Karma
· Kena-Austerity, Work and Restrain.
· Dharnur Veda-Science of archery and war.
· Mundaka- Discipline faith, and warning of ignorance
Sanskrit
Sanskrit was the classical language of India, older than Hebrew and Latin. It is the oldest, most scientific, systematic language in the world. It became the language of all cultured people in India .
India
Theory of Continued Fraction was discovered by Bhaskaracharya II.
Indians discovered Arithmetic and Geometric progression. Arithmetic progression is explained in Yajurveda.
Govindaswamin discovered Newton Gauss Interpolation formula about 1800 years before Newton.
Vateswaracharya discovered Newton Gauss Backward Interpolation formula about 1000 years before Newton.
Parameswaracharya discovered Lhuiler’s formula about 400 years before Lhuiler.
Madhavacharya discovered Taylor series of Sine and Cosine function about 250 years before Taylor.
Madhavacharya discovered Newton Power series
Madhavacharya discovered Gregory Leibnitz series for the Inverse Tangent about 280 years before Gregory.
Madhavacharya discovered Leibnitz power series for pi about 300 years before Leibnitz.
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) 365.258756484days
Infinity was well known for ancient Indians. Bhaskaracharya
Similarities to Greek mythology
Hercules (Herakles) Krishna (Harekrsna)
fighting the Lernaean fighting the Kaliya
Dionysus (Dionysos) Shiva, holding the Trident, resting on a
holding a Trident leopard skin with a Cobra perched beside
him, his abode is
Dionysus (Dionysos): encircled with a snake,
with leopard by his side, with the moon in the
background, his abode is Mount Olympus
The Gods of India
The Trinity
Generator Operator destructor
Brahma Vishnu Shankar
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The Ancient Indian Epics
Ramayana Mahabharata
The first Indian epic Longest Epic in world
Consisting of 24,000 literature with
Verses divided into 7 100,000 two-line
Books. Stanzas.
The words of Lord Krsna crystallized in the Lord Krsna counsels Prince Arjuna during the Great Mahabharata War, in Kurukshetra, India, circa 3100 B.C.,
“After many births the wise seek refuge in me, seeing me everywhere and in
everything. Such great souls are very rare.”
"Your very nature will drive you to fight, the only choice is what to fight against.”
“On action alone be your interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. “
“This is how actions were done by the ancient seekers of freedom; follow their
example: act, surrendering the fruits of action.”
“For certain is death for the born, and certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable you should not grieve. “
“For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no
The 4 kinetic ideas behind
Karm
The law of universal causality, which connects man with the cosmos and condemns him to.
Maya
The world is not simply what it seems to the human senses.
Absolute reality, situated somewhere beyond the cosmic illusion woven by Maya and beyond.
Nirva
The state of absolute blessedness, characterized by release from the cycle of reincarnations; freedom from the pain .
Yoga
Implies integration; bringing all the faculties of the psyche under the control of the self.
“AUM” or “OM”
The first sound of the Almighty – Infinite Reality - Oneness
is the Sanskrit word for;
Amen (Christian)
Amin (Muslim)
Aum (Hindu)
Hūm (Bhuddist)
India: World's Largest Maitreya Buddha Statue
India has started construction of the World’s largest Buddha statue, it is being designed to last for the next 1,000 years.
The statue will be situated at Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh,
where the Buddha passed away.
The statue, destined to bring world peace, will be seated on throne 17-storeys.
"In India today, we have a lady born a Catholic (Sonia Gandhi) stepping aside so a Sikh (Manmohan Singh)
could be sworn in by a Muslim president (Abdul Kalam)
to lead a nation that's 82% Hindu. I defy anyone to cite another country Secular Tolerance
Progress during the last 20 years
Poverty (incidence)
1980s 1990s 2000
44% 36% 26%
Education (literacy rate)
1980s 1990s 2000
44% 52% 65%
Health (life expectancy)
1980s 1990s 2000
56 60 69
India’s population to be the largest in the world
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050. India’s population is expected to grow from
1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently. India, will also have the highest working population in the World — 700 million people out of 1.1 billion people are young; the young population will continue till 2050.
NATIONAL SYMBOLS OF INDIA
NATIONAL FLAG
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru presented to the Constituent Assembly of India on July 22, 1947,the National - Flag of India .
It is a horizontal tricolourflag. The ratio of the width to the length of the Flag shall ordinarily be 2 : 3.
The cloth for the manufacture of the flag can be handspun and handwoven khadhi, cotton, woolen or silk. The flag shall be a tricolour panel made up of three rectangular panels or sub - panels of equal widths.
The colours of the top panels shall be India - saffron ( kesari ), and that of the bottom panel shall be India - green, the middle panel shall be white bearing at its centre the design of Ashoka Chakra in navy blue colour.
The Ashoka Chakra shall have 24 spokes equally spaced and shall preferably be screen printed or otherwise printed or stencilled or suitably embroidered with navy blue colour. In all the cases, the chakra shall be completely visible on both sides of the flag in the centre of the white panel.
NATIONAL EMBLEM- the Lion Capital
The National Emblem of India is a replica of the Lion of Sarnath, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The Lion Capital was erected in the 3rd Century B.C by Emperor Ashoka to mark the spot where Buddha first proclaimed his gospel of peace and emancipation to the four quarters of the Universe. The National Emblem is thus symbolic of India's commitment to world peace and goodwill. The four lions (one hidden from view) - symbolizing power, courage and confidence,rest on a circular abacus.
The abacus is girded by four smaller animals - guardians of the four directions: the lion in the north, the elephant in the east, the horse in south and the bull in the west. The abacus rests on a lotus in full bloom, exemplifying the fountainhead of life and creative inspiration. The motto 'Satyameva Jayate' inscribed below the emblem in Devanagari script means "Truth Alone Triumphs".
NATIONAL ANTHEM- Jana Gana Mana
English Translation of the National Anthem
" Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people Thou dispenser of India's destiny Thy name rouses the hearts of the Punjab, Sind, Gujarat and Maratha, Dravida, Orissa and Bengal It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas mingles in the music of the Yamuna and Ganges and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise The saving of all people waits in thy hand, Thou dispenser of India's destiny,
Victory, Victory, Victory to Thee."
The national anthem was composed by Rabindranath Tagore in Hindi . He also composed many lovely songs and beautiful short stories which are popular with the elites as well as the rough peasants. The songs were based on the beauty of India's scenery, the beauty of women and the sufferings of the masses. He was awarded th Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 for his literary works.
NATIONAL SONG- Vande Mataram
Composed by Bankim Chandra, the National Song of India, appears in the Bengali novel Anand Math. The English translation of this "Vande Mataram" rendered by Shree Aurobindo, is considered to be the official and best. The first stanza of this song has been given the status of our national song.
Sanskrit Version English Version
Vande Mataram Sujalam Suphalam
Malayaja Shitalam Shasyashyamalamm
Mataram !
Shubharajyothsna Pulakitayaminim
Phullakusumita drumadala
Shobinim Suhasinim Sumadhura
Bhasinim Sujhadam varadam
Mataram!
I bow to the Mother, Richly watered, richly fruited
Cool with the winds of the South, Dark with the crops of the harvests,
The Mother!
Her nights rejoicing in the Glory of the moonlight
Her hands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom
Sweet of laughter, sweet of speech
The Mother, giver of boons,giver of Bliss.
NATIONAL PLEDGE
General Pledge
India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I Love my country. I am proud of its rich and varied culture. I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall love and respect my parents, teachers and elders.
To my country and my people I pledge my devotion
National Integration Pledge
I solemnly pledge to work with dedication to preserve and strengthen the freedom and integrity of the nation.
I further affirm that I shall never resort to violence and that all differences and disputes relating to religion, language, region or other political or economic grievances should be settled by peaceful and constitutional means.
In theri well being and prosperity alone lies my happiness.
NATIONAL FLOWER- Lotus
The Lotus or water lily is an aquatic plant of Nymphaea with broad floating leaves and bright fragrant flowers that grow only in shallow waters. The leaves and flowers float and have long stems that contain air spaces.
The big attractive flowers have many petals overlapping in a symmetrical pattern. The root functions are carried out by rhizomes that fan out horizontally through the mud below the water. Lotuses, prized for their serene beauty, are delightful to behold as their blossoms open on the surface of a pond.
In India the sacred lotus is legendary and much folklore and religious mythology is woven around it.
NATIONAL BIRD- Peacock
The Peacock has been given a proud position in India. It is taken as the bird to represent the whole country. The male has gorgeous tail feathers, which have a striking color combination. The tail spreads out for over a meter. During rains or at times when it feels excited it spreads its tail in the form of a fan and dances, which is a magnificent sight. It produces a raucous, harsh and penetrating sound, which is termed ugly when compared to its elegant poise.
Peacocks are found throughout India up to a height of 5000 ft. They feed on grains, vegetables, snakes, and insects. They normally roost on big trees. They are known to move only in groups. Poaching of these birds is strictly prohibited throughout India.
NATIONAL ANIMAL-Tiger
Tigers are very graceful and majestic in appearance. The Indian tiger has a golden yellow color with black strips and a shorthaired coat. Some tigers in India are white in color as found in the famous Gir forests of Gujarat. The tigers in the Sunderbans and the Himalayan regions are bigger than those found in Madhya Pradesh and in South India. Tigers normally live in evergreen forests. In the Sunderbans they lead an amphibious life. The lifespan of a tiger is around 20 years. They hunt almost all wild animals even the big elephants.
NATIONAL TREE- Banyan
Indian national tree is the fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, whose branches root themselves like new trees over a large area.
The roots give rise to more trunks and branches. Because of this characteristic and its longevity, this tree is considered immortal and is an integral part of the myths and legends of India.
Even today, the banyan tree is the focal point of village life and the village council in most areas meets under the shade of this tree.
NATIONAL FRUIT- Mango
A fleshy fruit, eaten ripe or used green for pickles etc., of the tree Mangifera indica, the mango is one of the most important and widely cultivated fruits of the tropical world, especially in India and hence it is its national fruit. Its juicy pulp is a rich source of Vitamins A, C and D. In India there are over100 varieties of mangoes, in different sizes, shapes and colours.
Mangoes, have been cultivated in India from time immemorial. The poet Kalidasa sang its praises. Alexander savoured its taste, as did the Chinese pilgrim Hieun Tsang. Akbar planted 100,000 mango trees in Darbhanga, known as Lakhi Bagh.
NATIONAL GAME- Hockey
Hockey is the National Game of India. Unmatched excellence and incomparable virtuosity brought India a string of Olympic gold medals.
The Golden Era of hockey in India was the period from 1928 - 1956 when India won 6 consecutive gold medals in the Olympics. During the Golden Era, India played 24 Olympic matches, won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per match) and conceded only 7 goals. The two other gold medals for India came in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
GOVERNMENT
India, a Union of States, is a Sovereign Democratic Republic, governed by a Constitution, which came into force on the 26th of January 1950.
The Constitution, federal in structure with unitary features, defines the power exercised by the States and the Union. The President of India is the constitutional head of the executive of the Union. He acts according to the advice of the Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head-the real custodian of the executive power- who is responsible to the Parliament consisting of two houses, the Lok sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Parliament and the Supreme court provide a medium of checks and balances on the powers of this executive authority. The Prime Minister and his Cabinet can be removed by a vote of no confidence passed by the House.
The major industry of Delhi is Politics! A session at the Sansad Bhavan is a good valued entertainment and permission for this can be had from the Embassies of various countries located in Delhi or through the High Commission or by means of an MP. Debates and cross-banter are in English and the Indian constitution is loosely based on the West Minister model of the British.
The Lok sabha has 544 elected members; it sits for eight months in the year and elects its own Speaker. The ruling party draws its Prime Minister and Cabinet from this house. Like the American Senate, membership of Rajya Sabha is by election, except for a dozen appointments by the President and a third of the 245 members retire every two years. It lacks a speaker but has the Vice President as the Chairman. Parliament legislates, amends the Constitution, elects the President and Vice President and must approve a Proclamation of Emergency.
PARLIAMENT
An MLA has as many votes as the number in thousands obtained when the population of his state is divided by the elected membership of his legislature. An MP has as many votes as the number obtained by dividing the total votes assigned to the MLAs by the elected membership of the two houses of Parliament.
The elected members of the two houses of Parliament and of the State Legislative assemblies constitute the Electoral College for the President. Any citizen of India above 35 years, owes allegiance to the constitution and swears by the sovereignty and integrity of India, can contest for the post of President. A President can hold office for 5 years and can seek re-election for any number of subsequent terms. A President can be removed by Parliament only through impeachment for violation of the constitution. The President's residence is called the Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
The Vice-President, elected by the members of the Parliament discharges the function as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. He also acts as the President during the absence of the President. The executive power of the Central government is normally vested in the President, who is also the Supreme commander of the three armed forces.
STATISTICAL FACTS ABOUT INDIA
STATES
CAPITAL
AREA (sq.km)
LITERACY (%)
NO. OF DISTS
Andhra pradesh
Hyderabad
275,345
61
23
Arunachal Pradesh
Itanagar
83,743
41.20
15
Assam
Dispur
78,438
53.42
23
Bihar
Patna
1,73,877
47.53
55
Chatisgarh
Raipur
135,194
34
16
Delhi
Delhi
1,483
82
1
Goa
Panaji
3,702
76.96
02
Gujarat
Gandhinagar
1,96,124
70
25
Haryana
Chandigarh
44,212
69
19
Himachal Pradesh
Shimla
55,780
77
12
Jammu& Kashmir
Srinagar
3,08,112
54
14
Karnataka
Bangalore
1,91,792
67
30
Kerala
Trivandrum
38,863
93
14
Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal
4,43,446
64
45
Maharastra
Mumbai
3,08,121
77
33
Manipur
Imphal
22,336
69
09
Meghalaya
Shillong
22, 429
50
07
Mizoram
Aizwal
21,081
95
03
Nagaland
Kohima
16,579
61.30
08
Orissa
Bhubaneshwar
1,55,707
64
30
Pondicherry
Pondicherry
492
74.90
4
Punjab
Chandigarh
50,394
70
17
Rajasthan
Jaipur
3,42,239
61
32
Sikkim
Gangtok
7,096
56.53
04
Tamilnadu
Chennai
1,30,058
73
29
Tripura
Agartala
10,486
60.40
04
Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow
2,94,411
57
70
Uttaranchal
Dehradun
55,845
72.28
13
Jharkhand
Ranchi
79,714
54
18
West Bengal
Kolkata
88,752
69
19
UNION TERRITORIES
Andaman& Nicobar
Port Blair
8,249
81.18
2
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
114
81.76
1
Dadra& Nagar Haveli
Silvassa
491
60.03
1
Daman & Diu
Daman
112
81.09
2
Lakshadweep
Kavaratti
32
81.49
1
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Dear All,
All the below listed statements are all true facts ! Feel proud to be an Indian !Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?A. Rajiv GuptaQ. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?A. Vinod DahmQ. Who is the third richest man on the world?A. 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 6 th position now.Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?A. Sabeer BhatiaQ. Who is 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)?A. Arun NetravalliQ. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?A. Sanjay TejwrikaQ. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.Q. 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 withWORLD 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 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. 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 derived 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 106 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 academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor 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 over5000 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 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 ELINSTEIN. 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.
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August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity.
August 15th is my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though then they looked like impracticable dreams arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position.
The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would fall back into the chaos of separate States which preceded the British conquest. But fortunately it now seems probable that this danger will be averted and a large and powerful, though not yet a complete union will be established. Also, the wisely drastic policy of the Constituent Assembly has made it probable that the problem of the depressed classes will be solved without schism or fissure. But the old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened into a permanent political division of the country. It is to be hoped that this settled fact will not be accepted as settled for ever or as anything more than a temporary expedient. For if it lasts, India may be seriously weakened, even crippled: civil strife may remain always possible, possible even a new invasion and foreign conquest. India's internal development and prosperity may be impeded, her position among the nations weakened, her destiny impaired or even frustrated. This must not be; the partition must go. Let us hope that that may come about naturally, by an increasing recognition of the necessity not only of peace and concord but of common action, by the practice of common action and the creation of means for that purpose. In this way unity may finally come about under whatever form &emdash; the exact form may have a pragmatic but not a fundamental importance. But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future.
Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilization. Asia has arisen, large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today or tomorrow. There India has her part to play and has begun to play it with an energy and ability which already indicate the measure of her possibilities and the place she can take in the council of the nations.
The third dream was a world union forming the outer basis of a fairer, brighter and nobler life for all mankind. That unification of the human world is under way; there is an imperfect initiation organized but struggling against tremendous difficulties. But the momentum is there and it must inevitably increase and conquer. Here too India has begun to play a prominent part and, if she can develop that larger statesmanship which is not limited by the present facts and immediate possibilities but looks into the future and brings it nearer, her presence may make all the difference between a slow and timid and a bold and swift development. A catastrophe may intervene and interrupt or destroy what is being done, but even then the final result is sure. For unification is a necessity of Nature, an inevitable movement. Its necessity for the nations is also clear, for without it the freedom of the small nations may be at any moment in peril and the life even of the large and powerful nations insecure. The unification is therefore to the interests of all, and only human imbecility and stupid selfishness can prevent it; but these cannot stand for ever against the necessity of Nature and the Divine Will.
But an outward basis is not enough; there must grow up an international spirit and outlook, international forms and institutions must appear, perhaps such developments as dual or multilateral citizenship, willed interchange or voluntary fusion of cultures. Nationalism will have fulfilled itself and lost its militancy and would no longer find these things incompatible with self preservation and the integrality of its outlook. A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race.
Another dream, the spiritual gift of India to the world has already begun. India's spirituality is entering Europe and America in an ever increasing measure. That movement will grow, amid the disasters of the time more and more eyes are turning towards her with hope and there is even an increasing resort not only to her teachings, but to her psychic and spiritual practice.
The final dream was a step in evolution which would raise man to a higher and larger consciousness and begin the solution of the problems which have perplexed and vexed him since he first began to think and to dream of individual perfection and a perfect society. This is still a personal hope and an idea, an ideal which has begun to take hold both in India and in the West on forward looking minds. The difficulties in the way are more formidable than in any other field of endeavor, but difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome. Here too, if this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers.
Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India.
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long supressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of Inida and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?
Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. Some of those pains continue even now. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.
That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
And so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
To the people of India, whose representatives we are, we make an appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell.
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The appointed day has come-the day appointed by destiny-and India stands forth again, after long slumber and struggle, awake, vital, free and independent. The past clings on to us still in some measure and we have to do much before we redeem the pledges we have so often taken. Yet the turning-point is past, and history begins anew for us, the history which we shall live and act and others will write about.
It is a fateful moment for us in India, for all Asia and for the world. A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East, a new hope comes into being, a vision long cherished materializes. May the star never set and that hope never be betrayed!
We rejoice in that freedom, even though clouds surround us, and many of our people are sorrowstricken and difficult problems encompass us. But freedom brings responsibilities and burdens and we have to face them in the spirit of a free and disciplined people.
On this day our first thoughts go to the architect of this freedom, the Father of our Nation [Gandhi], who, embodying the old spirit of India, held aloft the torch of freedom and lighted up the darkness that surrounded us. We have often been unworthy followers of his and have strayed from his message, but not only we but succeeding generations will remember this message and bear the imprint in their hearts of this great son of India, magnificent in his faith and strength and courage and humility. We shall never allow that torch of freedom to be blown out, however high the wind or stormy the tempest.
Our next thoughts must be of the unknown volunteers and soldiers of freedom who, without praise or reward, have served India even unto death.
We think also of our brothers and sisters who have been cut off from us by political boundaries and who unhappily cannot share at present in the freedom
that has come. They are of us and will remain of us whatever may happen, and we shall be sharers in their good [or] ill fortune alike.
The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? To bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.
We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be. We are citizens of a great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.
To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.
And to India, our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new, we pay our reverent homage and we bind ourselves afresh to her service.
JAI HIND.
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Today's world of conflicts, there’s many a chapter yet to be written. and one of the most popular of them is
**"It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race...At this supremely dangerous moment in history the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way."**
The day we call as the independent day is actuality is the birthday of all Indian. At this great occasion the contribution of India to the world in term of spiritually ,culture ,democracy ,technology ,science ,civilian architecture ,basis invention of life ,rewards, Great history and all future event who impact that the world in all way can not be ignored to by any country. India is the only country who dominant the world in all this way. India is the home to some of the most ancient civilizations and for major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism and has the third largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.
The major contribution of India, in the world to day, would be in the sphere of spirituality. While science does explain HOW things happen, often there is the need to know WHY they do happen. Neither the religion and nor the science provides all the answer but our ancient Indians have bequeathed us with a holistic approach that seeks knowledge and has answer to all the question ...mostly solution for all promblem.The world know that fact that Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been maiden Europe were actually made in India centuries ago. The celebrations of Earth Day are reminiscent of aspects of the worship of Mother Durga!.whenever the cultural clashes and in open conflicts situation in this the world learn a thing from the Indian experience. The world most of modern science is based on the our Indian traditional spiritual knowledge.
India’s contribution to globalization has been the emergence of the knowledge outsourcing sector fuelled by multinational and Indian firms. Less than 10 per cent of India's labor works but great contributions to the world As the most populous democracy in the world India has the world's twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the fourth largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy...It gave the zero to the world, the basis for the bits and bytes of the digital revolution.
India has the world’s largest pool of IT manpower are two thirds of the best software companies in the world located in India? At present Indian software is exported to more than 150 countries, and accounts for one fifth of global software development. Keeping in mind Indian conditions and needs, scientists are trying to evolve unique ways in which IT can be used for human development in India...It is finding applications in almost all walks of life - from education to rural development. Recently, Indian scientists have Demonstrated that IT can be effectively used for forecasting tropical diseases like malaria and filaria. They have customized software called Heuristic Engine. This software can predict the period when the mosquito is abundant, the period when these mosquitoes get infected through biting disease carriers such as pigs and donkeys, and the period when these mosquitoes bite human beings. that show where we are today in term of skill and knowledge ..
Today India is in the new bright era, the era of revolution, progress, gain that’s seemed endless in coming future. To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy. So I will address my entire friend and all the youth of India that be the part of this revolution in your own way make a proud for an every Indian to be a INDIAN.
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