Sri Lanka bows down to India..

Reshmi85

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SOME FACTS ABOUT INDIA,

Copied from another thread... Happy to have it here...
retrospect said:
this is for information, i think this info is current


Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta


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 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 are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

Q. 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 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 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 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.
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.
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 )
Lord Buddha was also born in India...
 

sanath ekanayake

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    සමුදුරෙන් එහා
    THAT'S RIGHT!!

    amila_90210 said:
    මහාවංශෙ is not 100 % correct...What do you know about "yakka" ppl in sri lanka ....When Wijaya Came with 700 there were civilization in SL...Actually dying one...It was @ its climax when King rawana ruled..mahawansha missed the best part of the history :)
    AGREE WITH YOU.AND SOME PPL THINK THAT 'YAKKHA"TRIBE MEANS DEVILS AND NAGA TRIBE MEANS SNAKES.WHAT A PITY.WE ARE A PROUD INDIVIDUAL NATION WITH A GREAT HITORY.
     

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    AtulaSiriwardane said:
    Nice...
    I like it
    and followed...
    You are trying to defend Sri Lanka and save your faces.
    But you can't win it fairly.
    :)

    To win it fairly it should be a fair comparison on equal grounds!

    Reshmi here trying so hard to point out Sri Lankan weaknesses...

    But kind of shy to accept the Indian ones! :lol:
     

    tharinda07

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    AtulaSiriwardane said:
    Yuddhe iwaraine.. Mokuth interesting dekuth ne...
    kattiyath e dawaswala wage form eke nehe.. almerila inne.
    :dull:
    kattaiya neththa moko mee api inne,

    mee atula uncle 13 weni vivasha sansodane gena topic ekak dapanko pro section eke ,

    ps
    mama eakak danna kiyala heduwe eath wela nee continue karan yanna,oya danna apita ethakota uththar denna beriye
     
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