Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)

1.Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

2.Mark Twain said: 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. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

3.French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

4.Hu Shih (former Ambassador of China to USA) said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

5.Martha Smith: India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing

6.Pierre Pettigrew: India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

7.Gary Ackerman: India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it

8.Gary Wright: India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West

9.Stafford Cripps: India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. 

10.Minoru Yamasaki: However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda

11.Alexander Duff: “I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.” 

12.Edward Gibbon: “My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”

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Amazing Facts about India and Indians

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.

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 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. 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

12. 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).

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

14.Chess was invented in India.

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Nehru Trophy Boat race

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Hop Around India

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Maa Tujhe Salaam - Greatness of India

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