Economically, India often seems like two separate countries: village India, supported by primitive agriculture, where tens of millions"”one fourth of population"”live below the poverty line; and urban India, one of the most heavily industrialized areas in the world, with an increasingly middle-class population. Agriculture (about 55% of the land is arable) makes up some 25% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and employs almost 70% of the Indian people.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.


2. India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'


3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of 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 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 Inida. 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 Gemological 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 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.

RUSSELL PETERS

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

Why is his last name Peters? Isnt it like not indian?

Why are we darwing lines based on race...

Why are we darwing lines based on race and geografical location? Dose it realy matter? We are all human and have both good and bad moments. Unfrontly it seems such lines are casuing more and more of thess bad moments thess days. I don't see why we can't all treat each other as equals and with respect dispite race, relgion, loclation or sexulaity?

You say proud to be Indian, i say asmaned to be human with the way things are going. Lets chage that.....

canada didnt get "rid" of the british, the british didnt treat them as slaves and why would they, because they were the british!

thecaly canada has still yet to get "rid" of the british. Thecanly we are the dominion of canada and still have a respestive of the queen in our goverment who can dislove it.

That's just a formality of a custom. Canada is independent as in Britan cannot pass a law in Canada, not can they deny us passing any of our own laws.

And on a totally related note, NANA the Movie totally rocked. Wasn't too chuffed with the ending, but hey, if I wanted a better ending I'd've read the manga. Top-rate acting by the two lead females...not so much by some of the other cast though.
Ai Yazawa-sensei, anata wa hontoni sugoi desu. Uh, is that correct? Still don't know enough Japanese to say that properly...[sigh]. Soon though, soon.

I'm usually not so picky about grammar, but...

Meanwhile, ASIAN PRIDE!

Good ol' Delos, that's why we keep you around.

I guess Earth will never be united until an alien life form tries to come by and destroy us. Wtf, all?

yeah but we had to come together to throw the british empire out "non-violently" and it forgot to mention, it is the only country to achieve independance using non-violence.

lol yes bitter asian men.. we're bitter because people like tony keeps on stealing our women.. damn you pretty white boys..

Hate to break it to you, but India's independence movement really started with a rather violent uprising in 1857. After much slaughtering of british soldiers and civilians I'm pleased to say that the indian troops were then slaughtered themselves (I'm a proud supporter of hte british comonwealth).

It is only after this failed revolt and the subsequent british rule that india became independent in 1947 through a negotiated independence while britan was at war.

independance was won by non-violence and the fact that Gandhi said, "There are 15 indians for every 1 british person, imagine if millions of them gang up on thousands of you and even go to britain and invaded all of you"

Also India was the richest country at early 1800's

Oh come on Andy - yellow fever

senorita is also a pretty goodone by wong fu
i think he goes to the university of california or something

Hate to break it to ya, but it doesn't matter how the slaughtering occured so much as it was the british who were killed first. And seeing as I am a partiotic member of hte british comonwealth I am less concerned with their subsequent slaughter of "extremists" who were destablizing the worlds oldest and most respected superpower then I am at the destablizing effects of the attempted revolt.

3) girls who have fetishes for the highly uncommon caucasian males

OK dodge, if you find any of these that are acceptably good looking feel free to send them the picture of me shaving with a sword.

i said caucasians..

/me pokes a pin through MysticVegeta's ego

Hate to break it to ya, but it doesn't matter how the slaughtering occured so much as it was the british who were killed first.

And you would just stay in your country and doing nothing while the other country is looting and killing your people? If you do, hate to break it to ya, I wouldnt want to be in your country

I think I know more history about my country than you do?

well if you read those links i presented than it's obvious that you clearly dont...

Mystic: You said that india non-violently gained independence. This is obviously not true. The British might have been violent, but that does not invalidate the point that Indians were also violent at some point in their sturggle for independence.

But, by saying that the non-violent approach finally taken by indians had proved fruitful, then that would be a more accurate statement.

Yes you are correct. But at the same time what I said wasn't all false. What it meant was yes they were violent at times (but only some parties, most still followed Gandhi's approach) Obviously, if someone invades your country, some people will tend to get violent, it is natural, but when I said through non-violence, I was referring to the final breakthrough, not the small violent events that took place all over 200 years because they didnt lead the british to move out. I was only referring to what happened in the end. And yes, I should correct myself and I should have said, "In the end, India won independance through non-violence, not addressing 'some' attacks made by indians years before independance" The attacks of indians (some of them) was not hte reason the british moved out, it was due to non-violence at the end
And Yes, if anyone wants to challenge that, I could certainly debate about this forever, because its part of a thing that makes me and other indians proud.

eh this topic has gone too far....

You can be proud of your country, pssh, why not? But don't make it public because, well you see what happnes -.-

Anyways, I think we shouldnt reply here anymore, its just gonna lead to more flame on us rofl.