Greatness Of India Part 3

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like caesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of an aesthesia 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.

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. By: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. By: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. By: French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. By: 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 ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow. Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN. Please forward this email to all known INDIANS.

Greatness Of India Part 2

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 4th 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 stricken 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 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.

9. 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.

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.

Be Proud You Are Born Indian---GreatNess Of India

Know about India – A few achievements & innovations
Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? A. Vinod Khosla
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)? A. Vinod Dahm
Q. 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 6th position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)? A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. 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 Netravalli
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard? A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems? A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckensey & Stanchart? A. 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.

Mother Theresa

Mother Teresa is an icon of strength, nobility and love. She lived an exemplary life of simplicity and dedication. She had many hurdles to overcome. She was a nun from a foreign land. Yet, she toiled for the poor without any prejudice. She was a forthright woman in a patriarchal society. Despite this, she stoically defended her views. She withstood all political pressures in a multi-racial country. On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa died at the age of 87.

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  Quotes Of Mother Theresa::
• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
• Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
• Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
• Good works are links that form a chain of love.
• Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
• I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
• I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
• I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
• I think I'm more difficult than critical.
• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. " If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
• If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
• If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
• In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
• It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
• It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
• It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy
• Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
• Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
• Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
  Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
• Peace begins with a smile.
  So many signatures for such a small heart.
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
• The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
• The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
• There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
• There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
• There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then?
• Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
• We are all pencils in the hand of God.
• We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
• We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
• Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
• We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
  

Mahatma Gandhi:::Father Of My Nation

Here is a brief summary of some of the major facts associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

These facts highlight some of the major achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and provide valuable information on Mahatama Gandhi.

• Birth: October 2, 1869
• Death: January 30, 1948
• Place of Birth: Porbandar, Gujarat
• Father: Karamchand Gandhi
• Mother: Putlibai
• Wife: Katurbai
• 1888-1891: Studied law in London
• 1893: Sailed for South Africa
• 1906: Began Satyagraha campaign in South Africa to protest the requirement that Indians be fingerprinted and carry identification cards
• 1915: Returned to India from South Africa
• 1917: Initiated Champaran Satyagraha to alleviate the condition of indigo planters
• 1919: Instituted Satyagraha campaign in India to protest the Rowlatt Acts, which deprived all Indians of important civil liberties.
• 1922: Ended Non-Cooperation movement against British Raj after his followers were involved in a series of riots and disturbances that violated his policy of nonviolence
• 1930: Led Dandi March to collect salt in protest of the British salt tax.
• 1931: Signed a pact with Lord Irwin to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and went to London to attend Round Table Conference.
• 1932: Fasted to protest the treatment of people who belonged to no Hindu caste, the Harijans or Untouchables
• 1942: Launched Quit India Movement against British Raj.
• January 30, 1948: Assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

Quotes Of Mahatma::

• Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature.
  
• Action for one's own self binds, action for the sake of others delivers from bondage.
  
• What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?
  
• You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance.
  
• Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
  Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
  
• Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
  
• True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
  
• The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
  The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
  
• Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
  
• No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.
  
• The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
  
• The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
  
• The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
  
• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
  
• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

National Anthem

The song Jana-gana-mana, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the National anthem of India on 24 January 1950. The first stanza contains the full version of the National Anthem :
ACTUAL ONE :
Jana-gana-mana-adhinayaka, jaya he Bharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Punjab-Sindh-Gujarat-MarathaDravida-Utkala-BangaVindhya-Himachala-Yamuna-GangaUchchala-Jaladhi-taranga.
Tava shubha name jage,Tava shubha asisa mage,Gahe tava jaya gatha,Jana-gana-mangala-dayaka jaya heBharata-bhagya-vidhata.
Jaya he, jaya he, jaya he, Jaya jaya jaya, jaya he!
Playing time of the full version of the national anthem is approximately 52 seconds.
TRANSLATION
"Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,dispenser of India's destiny.
The name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind, Gujarat and Maratha, of the Dravid and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas, mingles in the music of the Yamuna and Ganga and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise. The salvation of all people is in thy hand, thou dispenser of India's destiny.Victory, victory, victory to thee.

Lotus scientifically known as Nelumbo Nucifera is the National Flower of India.The Lotus symbolises divinity, fertility, wealth, knowledge and not to forget enlightenment.It is also a symbol of triumph.Untouched by the impurity, lotus symbolises the purity of heart and mind.It was this depth of thought that made the founding fathers of modern India enshrine the lotus in the Constitution as the National Flower.

The Peacock, Pavo cristatus (Linnaeus), the national bird of India. It is symbolic of qualities like beauty, grace, pride and mysticism.The peacock is widely found in the Indian sub-continent from the south and east of the Indus river, Jammu and Kashmir, east Assam, south Mizoram and the whole of the Indian peninsula. Found wild in India they live in jungle lands near water. Hunting of peacocks is banned in India.

It is fully protected under the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

The Tiger -

Lord of the Indian Jungles, is the National animal of India. The tiger is the symbol of India's wealth of wildlife. The magnificent tiger, Panthera tigris (Linnaeus), is a striped animal. The combination of grace, strength, agility and enormous power has earned the tiger its pride of place as the national animal of India. Out of eight races of the species known, the Indian race, the Royal Bengal Tiger, is found throughout the . Tigers are now getting extinct. The Government of India, under its Project Tiger programme, started a massive effort to preserve the tiger population in 1973. Today, the tiger advances as a symbol of India's conservation of itself its wildlife heritage.

The National flag is a horizontal tricolor of deep saffron (kesari) at the top, white in the middle and dark green at the bottom in equal proportion.

The ratio of width of the flag to its length is two to three.

In the centre of the white band is a navy blue wheel which represents the Ashoka chakra.

Its diameter approximates to the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes.

Colors Of The Flag:

In the national flag of India the top band is of Saffron colour, indicating the strength and courage of the country.

The middle band, indicates peace and truth with Dharma Chakra.

The last band is green in colour shows the fertility , growth and auspiciousness of the land.

The Chakra:
The spoked Ashoka Chakra in the center of the flag adds historical "depth" to the National flag. This Dharma Chakra depicted the "wheel of the law" in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka.

The chakra intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation.

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