(, Bhrata)

Truth alone triumphs

India

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'Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

Swami Vivekananda, Indian Philosopher:

debt which the world owes to our motherland is immense. Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"
The

Present

 10,000 year old ancient civilization 325 languages spoken 1,652 dialects 22 official languages 29 states, 5 union territories 3.28 million sq. kilometers - Area 7,516 kilometers - Coastline 1.21Bn population. 15th August 1947 - Independence Day 5600 dailies, 15000 weeklies and 20000 periodicals in 21 languages with a combined circulation of 142 million. GDP $3.1 Trillion. (GDP growth rate 8% - 2010) Parliamentary form of Government Worlds largest democracy. Worlds 4th largest economy. World-class recognition in IT, bio-technology and space. Largest English speaking nation in the world (350M). 2nd largest standing army force, over 2.4M strong. 2nd largest pool of scientists and engineers in the World.

India has the largest movie industry in the world, producing over 800 movies a year.

Aston Martin contracted Bharat Forge has the world's largest singleprototyping its latest luxury location forging facility, its clients include Honda, sports car, AM V8 Vantage, to an Toyota and Volvo amongst others. Indian-based designer and is set to produce the cheapest Aston Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now Martin ever. 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 in the world. Ford has just presented its Gold World Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres.

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 UK automaker, MG Rover is marketing 100,000 Indica cars made by Tata in Europe, under its own name.

India: Trade

Siemens announced it would set up a technology development center to conduct research in IT and medical systems. The company already employs 3,000 in India, more than half engaged in R&D. Indias share in the offshore IT and IT-enabled services stood at 25% in 2001, second only to Ireland, while its share in ITES alone was 67%. India is likely to attract around $40Bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) during 2009-2010, compared to the $5Bn that flowed in during 2004-2005. India now replaces the US as the second most attractive FDI location.

India, in fact, accounts for 80% of all money in international cricket and has a TV viewership that is 10 times the size of all other ICC member countries put together. India is now the worlds 4th largest economy in terms of absolute gross domestic product (GDP) size. India jumped from number 10 in 2004 to number 4 in 2007. Bilateral trade between Indian and USA totalled $50Bn in 2008, compared to $14Bn in 2000. China and Indias bilateral trade is expected to exceed $100bn by 2015, surpassing the $70bn in 2011-2012 and is already the largest trading partner to India. Indias National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) , says that Software export revenues could reach $60 billion a year by 2010. India and Russia signed a bilateral trade agreement target of $20bn by 2015.

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.

Chinese-Indian trade grew by 33% in 2008, to nearly $52 billion and is expected to reach $60 billion by 2010. Tata Group in 2000 bought Tetley of UK for $430M.

India is one of the world's largest diamond cutting and polishing centres, its exports already reaching $8.6 Billion. This is expected to reach $16 Billion by Bilateral trade been UK and India is expected to increase from 12bn (2008) to 30bn by 2015. 2007. About 11 out of 12 diamond stones sold anywhere in the world, pass through India. Garment exports are expected to increase from the current level of $6 billion to $25 billion by 2010. Ranbaxy Technologies acquired RPG Aventis (France) in 2003 for $70m to strengthen its market position in Europe. A study by the Confederation of Indian Study (CII) and McKinsey highlights India's potential "to increase manufacturing exports from $40 billion to approximately $300 billion by 2015. Indias share of global garment exports is expected to reach at least $50billion by 2010.

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 $1.5 Billion worth of goods from India - half its apparel. Wal-Mart expects this to increase to $10 Billion in the next few years. GAP sources about $600 million and Hilfiger $100 million worth of apparel from India.

A new mall called Hyderabad Central, India. In 1999 there were only 3 malls in the entire country, 300 have been built recently, and there will be 700 by 2010.

A worker fixes the taillight of a Maruti Suzuki Swift diesel car at a car assembly plant opened last month south of New Delhi, India. With companies such as Honda, Toyota, GM, Ford, Volkswagen and many other foreign and Indian car makers the country has set a goal of producing 50 million cars a year by 2030

I-flex office building, Bangalore, India. Bangalore is the IT hot spot of the world and now employs 150,000 IT workers, compared to 120,000 in all of Silicon Valley. A resident of Bangalore's most sought after address, the Palm Meadows development in Whitefield, poses in front of some million dollar homes. Housing prices in the area have gone up 5 times their original value over the last 5 years.

BPO Office, India. The business process outsourcing sector in India will be worth $64 billion (US) and employ 3 million people by 2012.

Metro Rail, New Delhi, India. The country is replacing much of its old infrastructure and needs $330 billion (US) to complete projects, such as new rail systems. A new Sun Life Insurance Office in Mumbai, India. The Canadian insurance giant partnered with the Indian company Birla to form what is now one of the largest insurance companies in India.

After 10 years in India, the McDonalds food chain operates 86 restaurants all over the country and plans to open 25 more in the next three years, investing around $90 million (U.S.).

Supervisor Inspects CD Quality. The World Bank has been raising India's competitiveness ranking because of its ability to absorb high levels of technology.
An Indian farmer talks on his cell phone. There are a 150 million cell phone users in India and in March 2006 alone, more than 5 million new cell phone subscribers signed up for service.

High rise residential buildings, under construction at Gurgoan, Haryana, India. The country's red hot real estate market is having problems keeping up with the demand for luxury accommodations.

Workers put together a Honda Scooter in an Indian factory. More than 7.6 million scooters, motorcycles and mopeds were built in India last year.

Inside Ranbaxy laboratories' facility in New Delhi, India. The country graduates 120,000 chemists; 7,000 science PhDs; 350,000 engineers; and a total of 2.5Million University graduates each year. India is now the number one emerging retail market in the world. Clothing sales are expected to double by 2010.

A technopark in the Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala. The campus houses 100 IT companies which employ almost 15,000 workers.

South Extension Market at night, New Delhi, India. The Indian retail sector now worth over $300 billion (US) is expected to double over the next 5 years.

BPO, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The business process outsourcing industry, in which Indian companies handle call centres, accounting, research, billing and other back office needs of overseas companies, grew 40% in 2004.

PVR Cinema,Metropolitan Mall,Shopping Mall at Gurgaon, India. In 2004, paid attendance at Indian cinemas reached the 3 billion mark.

One of four Ranbaxy laboratories R&D facilities in New Delhi. India's largest generic drug company currently has global sales of $1 billion (US) and has set a goal of reaching $5 billion by 2012.

India: Technology

Geneva-based STMicroelectronics is one of the largest semiconductor companies to develop integrated circuits and software in India. Texas Instruments was the first to open operations in Bangalore, followed by Motorola, Intel, Cadence Design Systems and several others. 80 of the Worlds 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. Indias bio-technology industry already grossed $1 billion in 2004-2005. the Bio-tech industry is aiming to reach $5 billion by 2010. India now expects trade with Japan to grow from $4 billion to $20 billion by 2010. Outward investment from India was $913 m compared to $1,800 m for China.

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, BioInformatics, 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 Manufacturing Services, has announced that it will make India a global competence centre for telecom software development.

India Inc.: M&A

Tata Group recently acquired US-based Glaceau, makes of vitamin health drink for $677M, then the largest overseas buyout by a private Indian company. In 2007, Tata Steel, acquired Anglo-Dutch steel company Corus for $13Bn, quintupling its steel making capacity. Tata is expected to increase its Steel production from 5M tonnes in 2005 to 20M Tonnes by 2013. India will be producing and consuming 150M tonnes of steel by 2020. India is now (2009) the Worlds 3rd largest producer of Steel. Tata Group in 2008, acquired luxury car brand Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford motors for $2.3Bn. Tata has also scooped other overseas assets: an undersea-cable business, the truckmanufacturing operations of South Korea's Daewoo group, a stake in one of Indonesia's largest coal mines, and a raft of foreign hotels, including the Ritz-Carlton in Boston.

In 2006, Mittal Steel clinched a $32 billion takeover bid for Arcelor Steel, making the conglomerate the biggest steel producer in the world. In 2007, Hindalco Industries, part of India's Aditya Birla group, paid $3.6 billion for Canadian aluminum company Novelis. In 2007, Vijay Mallya's United Breweries snapped up Whyte & McKay, the world's fourth-largest distiller of Scotch whisky for $1.2Bn. In 2007, Wipro acquired New Jersey software house Infocrossing for $600 million. In 2007 , Hindalco Industries, part of India's Aditya Birla group, paid $3.6 billion for Canadian aluminum company Novelis. Between 2000-2006, Indian companies made over 300 acquisitions globally totaling over $10Bn. By the end of 2007, another 150 acquisitions with a total value of $21Bn had been completed.

India: Self-Reliance

India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Italy, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore, Israel and other EU countries. India's INSAT is among the worlds largest domestic satellite communication systems.

Indias Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed an unmanned probe, Chandrayaan-1, on the Moon (Nov 2008). The probe on its descent placed the Indian tricolour flag on the Moons surface. Its 2-years mission will map a 3-dimensional atlas of the Moon. ISRO proposes to undertake Indias first manned moon mission by 2020. Chandrayaan-1, in Mar 2010 discovered ice in the Moon's craters -- indicating as much as 600 million metric tonnes of water ice on the Moon's north pole.

Indias 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 was one of the 7 astronauts in the Columbia space shuttle when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.

India: Self-Reliance

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 in 1987. Indias new PARAM Padma Terascale Supercomputer (1 Tn processes/sec) is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this capability. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), plans to send two humans into space by 2015. The manned space-flight programme will develop and launch an orbital vehicle to carry two-member crew to the Earths lower orbit. India and Russia are jointly planning the production of 250 Russian 5thGeneration Sukhoi T-50 fighters. Worth around $8Bn.

India developed jointly with Russia the worlds fastest supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos, which has a 290-km range and a speed of 2.8 Mach, which is 3x faster than the US made subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile.

India in 2009, became the 6th nation in the World to launch its own indigenously built nuclear powered submarine. The INS Arihant will undergo trials over the next few years before being deployed. India's most ambitious missile, the Agni-V InterContinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), will have a strike range of 5,000-km, and is slated to be tested for the first time in 2010. India is planning to buy 10 C-17 Globemaster III heavy-lift cargo aircraft. The deal for Boeing is worth $2.5 Bn.

India: Self-Reliance

India's 69 billionaires have a combined net worth of $277bn. The "value" of arms transfer agreements inked by India in 2005 stood at $5.4Bn. Saudi Arabia was 2nd with $3.4Bn, China ranked 3rd with $2.8Bn and Pakistan came 6th with $1.7Bn. Back in 1968, India imported 9M tonnes of food-grains to support its people, through a grand programme of national self-sufficiency which started in 1971, today, it now has a food grain surplus stock of 60M. In a UNESCO report had pointed out that of the 128 countries where Jews lived before Israel was created in 1948, only one country, India, did not persecute them and allowed them to prosper and practice Judaism in peace. India is expected to spend $80 billion between 2012 and 2022 to upgrade its military.

India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M. It has also prepaid $3Bn owed to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Indias foreign exchange (forex) reserves are the 4th largest in the world at $300Bn (Feb 2011). India is the 3rd largest foreign investor in the UK. 500 Indian companies are operating in the UK. Since 2002, India has contributed $1.2Bn, (the 6th largest of all nations), to the rebuilding of Afghanistan by providing administrative training, medical care, educational facilities and scholarships and a new Parliament Building in Kabul. In 2011, India has pledged $5Bn in development aid for the next 3-years, from agriculture to information technology, tele-medicine.

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%. India was not a signatory to the product patent of drugs. Thus allowing for a synthetic pathway of a newly marketed drug the synthetic chemist had been able to produce high quality drugs at very low prices. As a result, drug prices have been the lowest in India. Trade of medicinal plants has crossed $900M already. According to a recently prepared report by Ernst & Young, India is emerging as an integral part of the global supply chain for pharmaceuticals. Any discussion on the global pharmaceutical supply chain can now no longer ignore Indias relevance. 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 for big Pharmaceutical companies is the next boom industry in India.

Globally Competitive Indian MNC

India: Infrastructure

The Bandra-Worli sea link, a $400M project was designed to reduce congestion of the Mahim causeway which is connected the western suburbs to Central Mumbai. The sea link reduces travel time from 60-mins. to 7-mins.

The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) mega-infrastructure project is a $90bn Indo-Japanese project designed to create special economic (industrial, agricultural, knowledge) zones spanning 6-states within India. The industrial corridor will span 1483km and will see major expansions of road, rail, sea ports, logistics facilities, power supply systems, integrated townships and airports. This global manufacturing hub is expected to double employment, triple industrial output and quadruple exports within 5-years of its completion in 2015. The Indira Gandhi Airport in Delhi The government of India has set an ambitious target of building 7,000km of highways annually for the next 5-years at a rate of 20km a day. The Indian Civil Aviation Ministry has set itself a target of getting around 500 airports operational by 2020, which would include the redevelopment of currently unused airports.

India: Foreign Multi-National Companies

Top 5 American employers in India: IBM: General Electric: Hewlett-Packard : Accenture American Express Dell : 98,000 employees : 16,000 employees : 12,000 employees : 35,000 employees : 4,000 employees : 12,000 employees Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase British Telecom Cap Gemini : 1,200 employees : 6,000 employees : 12,000 employees : 20,000 employees

General Electric (GE) with $80 Million invested in India employs 16,000 staff, 1,600 R&D staff who are qualified with Ph.Ds and Masters 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. Dell is planning to open a new production facility in India, to add to its three call centres and two testing and development units, takings the number of employees in India to 20,000 by 2009. In 2011 the company has committed to moving $25Bn worth factories labour, equipment to India. 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 researchin areas such as nanotechnology, hydrogen energy, photonics, and advanced propulsion. It is estimated that there are 150,000 IT professionals in Bangalore as against 120,000 in Silicon Valley. The largest segment of Indian subsidiaries of MNC account for $4.8billion in export rev.

India: R&D Labs

R&D Centre R&D Centre, Bangalore. India Development Centre, Bangalore, Hyderabad. India Engineering Centre, Bangalore. R&D Centre, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Highlights
Established in 1984. The centre started with just 20 people, now has 900 people working on VLSI and embedded software, which goes along with a chip or into the chip. The Bangalore centre was established in 1994; the Hyderabad one in 1999. Oracles largest development centre outside the US currently has 6,000 staff. Does work on Oracle's database products, applications, business intelligence products and application development tools, besides other activities. Established in mid-1999 with 20 people, has scaled up to 1000 people today. Does work mainly on Sun's software which includes Solaris and Sun One. This R&D centre is expected to expand to 2000 staff. Google has just opened its first R&D centre outside of the United States. It plans to hire 100 software engineers involved in primary research and development in its offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Areas of research will span many fundamental areas of computer science, including cutting edge information retrieval, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, theoretical computer science, statistics and UI. Established in 2001. Works on all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. The centre has added many new areas of activities such as middleware and business intelligence. It is estimated overall IBM will have 38,000 staff in India by the end of 2005. Established in November 1998 with 100 people, the Lab swill be scaled up to 3000 staff by the middle of 2006. It is the largest single-location R&D lab for SAP outside Walldorf, Germany. Nearly 10 percent of SAP's total R&D work is carried out from the Indian lab. Established in 1996 with 10 people, has scaled up to 1000 by 2003, it will reach 2500 by 2007. Almost all Philips products that use software have some contribution from this centre. It is the largest software centre for Philips outside Holland. The centre's software expertise is primarily in the areas of embedded and information system engineering, architecture design, programming and testing. Established in 2002 with just two people, has scaled up to 20 specialists today. Plans exist to double its headcount by the beginning of 2004. Is totally dedicated to high-level research on futuristic technologies, with special focus on emerging markets.

Software Lab, Bangalore, Pune. Labs India, Bangalore. Innovation Campus, Bangalore.

Bangalore.

Offshoring R&D (research and development) to India is currently a US$9.35 billion industry, with R&D centers owned by multinational companies accounting for about $5.83 billion of this market

India: BPO

The domestic BPO sector is projected to increase to $4 billion in 2004 and reach $65 billion by 2010. (McKinsey & Co.). Accenture will have grown its Indian workforce to 35,000 employees by middle of 2007, its largest employee base. The outsourcing includes a wide range of services including design, architecture, management, legal services, accounting and drug development and the Indian BPOs are moving up in the value chain. There are about 200 call centres 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 with breathtaking speed, India and its millions of world-class engineering, business and medical graduates are becoming enmeshed in America's New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine".

India: Technology Superpower

Over 100 MNCs have set up R&D facilities in India in the past five years. These include GE,
Bell Labs, Du Pont, Daimler Chrysler, Eli Lilly, Intel, Monsanto, Texas Instruments, Caterpillar, Cummins, GM, Royal Dutch Shell, Microsoft and IBM.

Reliance Industry is a company that now has $23 billion in revenues, $2.8 billion in cash profit, $1.4 billion in new profit and exports of $3.6 billion. Indias telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore, provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world, with well over 8.5 Terabits (8.5Tbs) per second. With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428 higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year. Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world's biggest consulting firm, hires most. Indias plan to spend $500 billion on build roads, ports and power supplies in the five years to 2012. It is expected that this Infrastructure investment will define the next growth engine in India like IT did in the 1990s.

Indians abroad
A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global Business institutions The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla), Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm), Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia), Founding member of Google (Ram Shriram), Director and founder of Google Adsense (Gokul Rajaram) Dean of Kellogg School of Management (Deepak Jain) Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta) President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta) GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta) President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal) Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup (Vikram Pandit), Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar) CTO of Cisco Systems (Padmasree Warrior) Former Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin) Chief Excecutive Officer of Motorola (Sanjay Jha) Dean of Harvard Business School (Nitin Nohria) Dean of Chicago Booth Business School (Sunil Kumar) Chief Financial Officer of eBay (Rajiv Dutta) President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali) Chief Financial Officer of BBC Corporation (Zarin Patel) Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose) President and CEO of Pepsi Cola, (Indra Nooyi) Head of (HPC WorldWide) of Unilever Plc. (Keki Dadiseth) Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta) Director and member of Executive Board of Goldman Sachs (Girish Reddy) Former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan) CEO of Mittal Steel Corporation (Lakshmi Mittal) Head of R&D at Yahoo! (Prabhakar Raghavan)

Indians in the USA.

Statistics that show: 38% of 12% of 36% of 34% of 28% of 17% of 13% of doctors in the USA, scientists in the USA, NASA scientists, Microsoft employees, IBM employees, INTEL scientists, XEROX employees, US H1-B Visa applicants country of origin
1. India 44% 2. China 9% 3. Britain 5% 4. Philippines 3% 5. Canada 3% 6. Taiwan 2% 7. Japan 2% 8. Germany 2% 9. Pakistan 2% 10. France 2%

are Indians.

Of the 1.5M Indians living in the USA, 1/5th of them live in the Silicon Valley. 35% of Silicon Valley start-ups are by Indians. Indian students are the largest in number among foreign students in USA.

IIT = Harvard + MIT + Princeton

IIT = Harvard + MIT + Princeton , says CBS 60 Minutes.
CBS' highly-regarded 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news programme in the US, told its audience of more than 10 Million viewers that IIT may be the most important university you've never heard of." "The United States imports oil from Saudi Arabia, cars from Japan, TVs from Korea and Whiskey from Scotland. So what do we import from India? We import people, really smart people," co-host Leslie Stahl began while introducing the segment on IIT. the smartest, the most successful, most influential Indians who've migrated to the US seem to share a common credential: They are graduates of the IIT. in science and technology, IIT undergraduates leave their American counterparts in the dust. Think about that for a minute: A kid from India using an Ivy League university as a safety school. That's how smart these guys are. There are cases where students who couldn't get into computer science at IIT, they have gotten scholarships at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech.

Sounds of India

Fashion and Miss World

Year
2008 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1966

Position

Runner up Semi-finalist Semi-finalist 3rd runner up Semi-finalist Non Semi-finalist Winner Winner Non Semi-finalist Winner 3rd runner up Non Semi-finalist Winner Non Semi-finalist Non Semi-finalist Semi-finalist Non Semi-finalist Winner

Miss World

Parvathy Omanakuttan Nair Natasha Suri Sindhura Gadde Ami Vashi Shruti Sharma Sara Corner Priyanka Chopra Yukta Mookhey Annie Thomas Diana Hayden Rani Joan Jeyraj Preeti Mankotia Aishwariya Rai Karminder Kaur Celine Shyla Ritu Singh Naveeda Mehdi Reita Faria

Science of Yoga
The science of yoga was born in an age when mankind as a whole was more enlightened, and could easily grasp truths for which our most advanced thinkers are still grasping.
The science of yoga meditation had been taught by the ancient, sages, gurus, yogis, through oral tradition for thousands of years, they were finally put to Sanskrit by Patanjali in 500 B.C.E.

It is because the groping for these truths has begun again that great yogis have reintroduced this ancient science to humanity at large.
Pre-eminent among them, even today, are the sages of the Himalayas. Today, the word yoga is much used and much misunderstood these days, reduced from its knowledge on the control of the conscious to that of the control of the body.

Science and Art

The cosmic dance of Shiva (Nataraja) Lord of the Dance symbolises the unified and dynamic composition of the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction of the Universe.
The upper right hand is a drum whose sound is the sound of universe creation (big-bang). The lower right hand makes the gesture of preservation "fear not." The lower left hand he points to his raised left foot, the place of refuge and salvation for the devotee. The upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder of the destruction of the universe. The right foot is planted on the back of the demon personifying ignorance, indifference, laziness over whom Shiva triumphs.

"Modern physics has revealed that every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction. The entire Universe is then engaged in movement and endless activity, in an uninterrupted cosmic dance of energy.

For the modern physicists, then Shivas dance is the dance of subatomic matter, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomenon.

An unusual landmark was unveiled at CERN in 2004, the European Centre for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva At the home of the large Hadron Collider Particle accelerator - a 2m tall statue of the Hindu deity Nataraja.

Science of Classical Music

Indian Classical music is principally based on melody and rhythm, not on harmony or counterpoint. Its origin is in Vedic Hymns of the Hindu Temple, so the roots are religious. The tradition is an oral one, it is taught directly by the Guru. The heart of Indian music is the Raga: the melodic form upon which the musician improvises. The traditional performance begins with the Alap. After this slow beginning the musician moves onto Jor, where rhythm enters. There is no drum in either of these sections. Then the Gat is evolved, which is the fixed composition of the Raga. Drums enter, and this section becomes the vehicle for the musician to return to after improvising - which he can do within the format of the Raga and Tala, its time cycle. The music becomes more playful and exciting with the development of the dialogue between the tabla and the main instrument. The classical music of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh subcontinent (in short Indian classical music) is one of the few ancient art forms still widely practised today. In recent years it has been much appreciated all over the world. There are many different styles but the two major ones are the Hindustani from the north and the Karnatic style from the south. Indian instruments are very delicate, affected by humidity and spotlights among other things and they need to be tuned and retuned before and also during the performance. This forms part of the concert and first-timers to an Indian Classical Concert are often amazed by this.

Indians of note

Jawaharlal Nehru
Father of Modern India, Indias first Prime Minister (1889 - 1964): Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Poet and writer of Indias 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.

Rabindranath Tagore,

Swami Vivekananda,
(1863 - 1902): Sisters and Brothers, 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. Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

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 of Truth, but only its ignorant seeker.

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,

Art of Living Foundation (b - 1956): In the Upanishads it is said, give with faith, give without faith, somehow you give. Sometimes you give a gift out of love for the other person. The second type of gift is when you may not give out of love but give just to make the other person happy. The third type is when you give so that you prevent a problem for yourself. A fourth type is when you give a gift because if you don't give, you don't keep up with your image.

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 tremendous advantage she has over man. Indians, will stagger humanity without shedding a drop of blood. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Guru Tegh Bahadur

(1621 - 1675):
The Kashmiri Brahmins, were being persecuted by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, and seeked the council of Guru Tegh Bahadur. The Guru Tegh Bahadur 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 his subsequent imprisonment by Aurangzeb, Guru Tegh Bahadur 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 Bahadur would not convert to Islam, ordered his public beheading by the sword. His body was left in the dust as no one dared to pick up the body for fear of the emperors reprisal.

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 Bose and not Guglielmo Marconi.

Sir C.V. Raman, (1888 1970)

1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics for work on scattering of light and Raman effect.

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 mechanics know commonly known as the Einstein-Bose statistics.

Dr Varghese Kurien, (b - 1921)

Dr Kurien helped India in achieving a milk surplus. earning him the reputation as the father of Indias White Revolution. Kurien helped modernise Anand model of cooperative dairy development, and made India the largest milk producer in the world.

Har Gobind Khorana, (b - 1922 ):

1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine for work on interpretation of the genetic code . Currently residing as professor at MIT.

Dr M.S. Swaminathan, (b - 1925)

Dr. Swaminathan helped India overcome the largest food deficit in the world and create a self-sustaining nation, earning him a reputation as father of Indias Green Revolution. He devoted himself to research in genetics and breeding to discover genetically superior strains of wheat, rice and coarse grains.

Srinivasa Ramanujan, (1887 1920):

A Brahmin from a poor family, became recognized as one of the Worlds greatest mathematicians, when interest from academics at Trinity College, Cambridge led him to collaborate there and postulate and prove well over 3,542 theorems. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College and became one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Society, he died at the young age of 33.

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar,(1910 - 1995):

1983 Nobel Laureate in Physics. His many contributions to Physics at the University of Chicago, on the structure and evolution of stars including rotational figures of equilibrium, stellar interiors, black holes, radiative transfer, hydromagnetic stability, stellar dynamics.

Amartya Sen, (b - 1933):

1998 - The Nobel Prize for Economics for 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 College, Cambridge.

Indian Freedom Fighters

Prithvi Raj Chauhan, (1149 - 1192):

A king of the Hindu Rajput Chauhamana dynasty, who ruled a kingdom in northern India during the 12th century. He controlled much of present-day Rajasthan and Haryana, and unified the Rajputs against Muslim invasions. After his defeat, India became open to invasion by Muslim invaders, and Delhi came under the control of the Muslim rulers.

Maharana Singh Pratap,(1540 - 1597):

Maharana Pratap ruler of the state of Mewar, Southern Rajasthan, never accepted the Mughal Akbar as ruler of India, and fought Akbar all his life. Pratap maintained that he had no intention to fight with Akbar but he could not bow down to Akbar and accept him as the ruler. Persia and England, Baghdad and Arabia felt honoured in sending costly embassies to the court of Akbar, but Pratap was content with sending his word of defiance.

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, (1627 - 1680):

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha Empire in western India. He is considered to be one of the greatest warriors of his time and even today, stories of his exploits are narrated as a part of the folklore. King Shivaji used the guerrilla tactics to capture a part of, the then, dominant Mughal empire.

Tipu Sultan, (1750 - 1799):

Tipu also known as the Tiger of Mysore was the ruler of the kingdom of Mysore. The only State which offered stiff resistance to Colonial expansion, which fought not one but four wars. Tipu participated in all four Mysore wars, two of which he inflicted serious blows on the English.

Mangal Pandey,(1827 - 1857):

Mangal Pandey, a member of the 34th Regiment of the Bengal native infantry of the East India Company, led him to attack his senior British officers in an incident, which is today remembered as the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 or The First War of Independence. The reason behind his burst of anger was that the cartridges for the Enfield rifle to be used by the Indian sepoys were greased with cow and pig fat.

Bhagat Singh,(1907 - 1931):

Considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. Bhagat Singh, because of his interest in studying and his keen sense of history gave revolutionary movement a goal beyond the elimination of the British. A clarity of vision and determination of purpose distinguished Bhagat Singh from other leaders of the National Movement.

Civilized Past

It is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India

India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history. India was the richest country on Earth until the time of the British in the early 17th Century The total amount of wealth the British plundered from India had reached 1 Billion by 1901. ($1 Trillion in real-terms) Robert Clives personal wealth amassed from the plunder of Bengal during 1750s was estimated at around 401,102

India
India was a unified country around 3300 B.C.E. by Emperor Bharata - whom India is named after.

Indias history shows an uninterrupted historical timeline recording the development of her civilization through the Royal Dynasty of Kings and lineage of priests that go back 325 generations.

Indias 3rd forgotten Epic - This ancient story called the Dasharajnya or Vedic War of 10 Kings is the more ancient and forgotten epic that precedes the famous literary classics like the Ramayana and the Mahabarata.

A Brief History of Time

Indus & Saraswati Civilizations (Harappa, Mohenho-Daro, Mehrgarh) Vedic Civilization King Bharata Dasharajnya Era Ramayana Era Mahabarata Era Sankyha Yoga philosophy Era Mauryan Period (Ashoka) Pandya Chola Empires Rise of Jainism andBuddhism Golden Age of Indian Arts & Sciences Vijayanagara Empire 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 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. More than 10,500 students from places as far as Babylonia, Greece, Syria, Arabia, and China studied subjects such as science, mathematics, medicine, politics, warfare, astrology, astronomy, music, religion, and philosophy. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century A.D. was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education and housed over 9 million book. At its peak in the 7th AD, Nalanda held some 10,000 students and teachers when it was visited by the Chinese scholar Xuanzang. The subjects taught at Nalanda University covered every field of learning, and it attracted pupils and scholars from Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey. Trigonometry was known to Indian mathematicians and astronomers before their European counterparts. It was used in India from the Gupta period (3rd century AD) onwards, and the SuryaSiddhanta (4th century AD) gives a table of sines.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Christopher Columbus was attracted to India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered the American continent by mistake. The subject of mathematics in Arabic came to be known as Hindsa which means 'from India. 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'. In Siddhanta Siromani (Bhuvanakosam 6) Bhaskaracharya II described about gravity of earth about 400 years before Sir Isaac Newton. He also had some clear notions on differential calculus, and the Theory of Continued Fraction. Fibonnaci numbers first appeared under the name maatraamer by the Sanskrit grammarian Pingala in the Chandas Shastra in 450BC or 200 BC

Languages of India
Kashmiri Urdu Punjabi Rajasthani Gujarati Marathi Konkani Kannada Telugu Sanskrit Hindi Oriya Bengali Assamese

Tamil

Malayalam

Vedic Philosophy
The Vedas are the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of Indian civilization and are the earliest literary records of the human mind. They have been passed through oral tradition for over 10,000 years, and first appeared in written form between 2,500 - 5,000 years ago. Veda means Knowledge in Sanskrit.

The Ancient Vedic Hymns

There is only one truth, only men describe it in different ways.

Rig Veda - Knowledge of Hymns, 10,859 verses

Yajur Veda - Knowledge of Liturgy, 3,988 verses Sama Veda - Knowledge of Classical Music, 1,549 verses Ayur Veda - Knowledge of Medicine, over 100,000 verses Upanishads
Jyotisha Astrology and Astronomy. Kalpa Rituals and Legal matters. Siksha Phonetics. Aitareya Creation of the Universe, Man and Evolution. Chandogya Reincarnation, Soul. Kaushitaki Karma. Kena Austerity, Work, and Restraint. Dharnur Veda Science of Archery and War. Mundaka Discipline, Faith and warning of Ignorance. Sulba Sutra Knowledge of Mathematics Yoga Sutra - Knowledge of Meditation Kama Sutra - Knowledge of Love and Sex

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 and in the countries that were influenced by India. Sanskrit literally means refined or perfected.
Sanskrit word
matar pitar bhratar svasar gyaamti trikonamiti dvaar ma naman smi eka

English word
mother papa / father brother sister geometry trigonometry door me name smile equal

Sanskrit meaning

'measuring the earth 'measuring triangular forms first person pronoun the same

NASA discovered that Sanskrit is the only unambiguous spoken language on the planet. It is regarded the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

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) 365.258756484 days Infinity was well known for ancient Indians. Bhaskaracharya II in Beejaganitha(stanza-20) has given clear explanation with examples for infinity. Brahmagupta, 630 AD, gave a figure of 36,000 km for the earth's circumference, not far from the actual value. Indian atomic theory greatly predates Democritus (430 BC). Kashyapa (aka Kanada), in his Vaisheshika Sutra, formulated an advanced theory of atomic structure in the 6th century BC. He also stated the principle of volume displacement long before Archimedes.

Theory of Continued Fraction was discovered by Bhaskaracharya II. Indians discovered Arithmetic and Geometric progression, which is explained in Yajurveda. Govindaswamin discovered Newton Gauss Interpolation about 1800 years before Newton. Vateswaracharya discovered Newton Gauss Backward Interpolation formula about 1000 years before Newton. Parameswaracharya discovered Lhuilers formula about 400 years before Lhuiler. Nilakanta discovered Newtons Infinite Geometric Progression convergent series. Positive and Negative numbers and their calculations were explained first by Brahmagupta in his book Brahmasputa Siddhanta. Aryabhatta propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years. In poetic form, Aryabhata stated that the earth's diurnal rotation on its axis produced the daily rising and setting of planets and stars. Pakudha Kayayana (580 BC), taught atomic theory by propounding the theory that undifferentiated potential matter (tanmatra) forms the universal energy of the cosmos by forming atoms.

The Surya Siddhanta

A textbook on astronomy of ancient India, last compiled in 1000 BC, believed to be handed down from 3000 BC by aid of complex mnemonic recital methods still known today. Showed the Earth's diameter to be 7,840 miles, compared to modern measurements of 7,926.7 miles. Showed the distance between the Earth and the Moon as 253,000 miles, Compared to modern measurements of 252,710 miles.

India

The value of "pi" was first calculated by Boudhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians. This was validated by British scholars in 1999. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 BC during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 1012.

Maharshi Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like caesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipments were used. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, physiology, aetiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in the Sindhu Valley Civilization.

India
Brahmagupta, 630 A.D., said, the following about Gravity, Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow".

A century before Brahmagupta, Varahamihira claimed that objects remain on the earth's surface due to an internal attractive force and that a similar force keeps celestial bodies in their positions. -- In fact, the ancient Sanskrit has a word for gravity -- Gurutvakarshan.

India
Sulvasutras of Baudhayana , 600 B.C.E., said the following 200 years before Pythagoras "The diagonal of an oblong produces by itself both the areas which the two sides of the oblong produce separately."

India
Aryabhata, 500 AD, the father of Indian mathematics and astronomy, computed pi to 3.1416, a value not equalled in Europe until Purbach (1423-61). pi is computed to 11 digits in the Karanapaddhati work (15th century) as 3.1415926535, a value not equaled in Europe until much later.

India

RigVedas (1.50), a hymn addressed to the Sun, refers quite clearly that the Sun traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha. This is in fact refers to the speed of light. The World's first Granite Temple is the Brihadeeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single '80-tonne' piece of granite. 1 million B.C.E. - The oldest stone tool in the world, going back to 2.2 million years old, has been found at Rabat, about fifteen miles away from Rawalpindi, thus breaking the African record. The largest hand Axe has also been found in the Soan Valley.

The world famous and priceless Kohinoor diamond, which is set in the Crown of the British monarch (Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth II), was acquired from India. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. Archaeologists generally believe Chess arose India, where the oldest indisputable appearance in 750 AD. The word was known as chaturanga which became transformed into chatrang by the Persians and as shatranj by the Arabic and finally to chess. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.

Kalarippayat - Origin of Martial arts 200 BC

Kerala, South India, guardians of the origins of modern martial-arts, influenced by Yoga and connected to the ancient Indian sciences of war (dhanur-veda) and medicine (ayur-veda). Exponents and practitioners of this art were the warrior clans of Kerala and Tamil Nadu the Nairs and Maravars/vellalar/mudaliar these advocates of kalaripayattu defended South India from foreign invaders. The origin of Kung-Fu began with a monk named Bodhidharma (also known as Ta Mo) who travelled from India to China around 500 A.D to establish the Shaolin Temples .

Bharata Natyam Manipuri

Mohini Attam

7 Classical Dance forms

Odissi

Kathak

Kuchipudi Kathakali

India's ancient achievements in Medical Science

Knowledge
Artificial Limb Number of Chromosomes (23) Combination of Male and Female Analysis of Ears Beginning of the Foetal Parthenogenesis Test Tube Babies ( from the ovum only) Test Tube Babies ( from the sperm only) Elongation of Life in confirmed Space Travel Cell Division (in 3 layers) Embryology Micro-organisms A material producing a disease can prevent or cure the disease in minute quantity Developing Embyro in Vitro Life in trees and plants 16 Functions of the Brain Definition of Sleep Chromosomes

Ancient Reference
RigVed (1-116-15) Mahabharat (5500 BCE) Shrimad Bhagwat RigVed Heart Eitereya Upanishad -(6000 BCE) Mahabharat Mahabharat Shrimad Bhagwat Shrimad Bhagwat Eitereya Upanishad (6000 BCE) Mahabharat S-Bhagwat (1-5-33) Mahabharat Mahabharat Eitereya Upanishad Prashna-Upanishad Yogsootra Cunavidhi (Mahabharat)(5500 BCE)

Modern Reference
20th Century 1890 A.D. 20th Century Labyrinth Robinson, 1972 20th Century Not possible yet Not possible yet Not yet 20th Century 19th Century 18th Century Haneman, 18th Century 20th Century Bose, 19th Century 19th 20th Century 20th Century 1860 1910 A.D.
(Ref: Dr.P.V. Vartak, Pune, India)

India's ancient achievements in Physical Science

Knowledge
Velocity of Light Trans-Saturnean Planets Space Travel to another solar system Gravitational Force Ultraviolet Band Infra-Red Band Tachyons faster than light Nuclear Energy Black Holes Embryology Monsoon at Summer Solstice Entry in South America by Airplanes Phosphorescent Trident at the Bay of Pisco, Peru, S.America Airplanes Robot Atom (Divisible) & (Indivisible)

Ancient Reference
RigVed - Sayan Bhashya (1400 A.D) Mahabharat (5500 B.C.E.) Shrimad Bhagwat (4000 B.C.E.) Prashnopanishad (6000 B.C.E.) Shankaracharya (500 B.C.E.) Sudhumravarna - (Mundakopanishad - M.U) Sulohita (M.U) Manojava (Mundakopanishad) Sudarshan, Spullingini (Mundakopanishad) Vishvaruchi(Mundakopanishad) Eitereya Upanishad (6000 B.C.E.) RigVed (23720 B.C.E) Valmiki Ramayan (7300 B.C.E) Valmiki Ramayan (7300 B.C.E.) RigVed,Ramayana, Samarangan Sutradhara (1050 A.D.) Samarangan Sutradhara (1050 A.D.) Shrimad Bhagwat (4000 B.C.E.)

Modern Reference
19th Century 17-19th Century Under trials 17th Century ------1968 20th Century 20th Century 19th Century ------1960 A.D. ------1800 A.D.
(Ref: Dr.P.V. Vartak, Pune, India)

Ancient Mythologies and Epics

The Ancient Indian Historical Epics

The first Indian epic The lost Indian epic, Vedic war of Ten Kings, preserved consisting of 24,000 verses divided into 7 books, in the Rg Vedas, Bharata King Sudas fought a war on composed about 2,100 B.C.E. (4,100 years ago). values, not race, 2,900 B.C.E (4,900 years ago).

Dasharajnya

Ramayana

Post Vedic Civil War of India, Longest Epic in world literature with 100,000 two-line stanzas, composed about 1,400 B.C.E. (3,400 years ago).

Mahabharata

Similarities to Greek mythology

Hercules (Herakles) fighting the Lernaean Hydra

Krishna (Harekrsna) fighting the Kaliya Serpent

Similarities to Greek mythology

Dionysus (Dionysos) holding a Trident Shiva, holding the Trident, resting on a leopard skin with a Cobra perched beside him, his abode is Mount Kailas, Himalayas

Dionysus (Dionysos) encircled with a snake, with leopard by his side, with the moon in the background, his abode is Mount Olympus

Similarities to the Bible

"In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the Beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." Gospel of St. John, New Testatment, Chapter 1, Verse 1-3.

In the beginning was Brahman [God] (Prajaapatir vai idam aaseet) With whom was the Vaak [Word] (Tasya vaak dvitiyaa aaseet) And the word itself was the Brahman [God] (Vag vai paramam Brahma) Rig Veda,

On Relativity and Vedanta

Albert Einstein (1905)
The laws by which the states of physical systems alter are independent of the alternative, to which of two systems of coordinates, in uniform motion of parallel translation relatively to each other, these alterations of state are referred (principle of relativity). If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2 . The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led to the more general conclusion that: The mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content; if the energy changes by L, the mass changes in the same sense by L/ 9 1020 , the energy being measured in ergs, and the mass in grammes. E=MC2. - Albert Einstein, Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?, Sept 27, 1905

Swami Vivekananda (1900)

If I am looking at the universe with my senses, I interpret it as matter and force. It is one and many at the same time. The manifold does not destroy the unity. The millions of waves do not destroy the unity of the ocean. It remains the same ocean. When you look at the universe, remember that we can reduce it to matter or to force. If we increase the velocity, the mass decreases. On the other hand, we can increase the mass and decrease the velocity... We may almost come to a point where all the mass will entirely disappear. Matter cannot be said to cause force nor can force be the cause of matter. Both are so related that one may disappear in the other. There must be a third factor and that third something is the mind. You cannot produce the universe from matter, neither from force. Mind is something which is neither force not matter, yet begetting force and matter all the time. In the long run, mind is begetting all force, and that is what is meant by the universal mind, the sum total of minds. Swami Vivekananda, San Francisco, March 28, 1900

Similarities of Rama in pre-Flood history

Rama was the sun-god
of the Hindus. The pre-eminent religion of Egypt was sun-worship with Ra as their sungod.

Rana a god of the Toltecs.

Rayam, a god of Yemen.

Raymi was the great festival of the sun in Peru.

Ra-mu was the sun-god of Mu.

Abraham descendent from Brahma?

Known as Holy river of the Vedic Indus Valley. Sanskrit meaning to grow in number

Sarasvati River

Tributary of Saraswati river

Brah

Ghaggar
Known as Father of all men and Gods Known as Goddess of Knowledge, Music and Arts

Sanskrit meaning Creator

Brahma Rama
Ram AbRaam/Raham A-Brahm / Ah-Brahm

Saraswati
Known as - wife of Brahma

Semitic meaning Father

Sarai-Svati

Ab

Semitic meaning - Of the exhalted

Known as - wife of Abram

Abram
Known as Exhalted Father

Hagar

Sarai
Sarah

Abraham

Ish-Mahal Sanskrit meaning - Great Shiva."

Ishmael

Isaac

Ishaku - Sanskrit meaning - "Friend of Shiva."

Similarities to Biblical mythology

The ancient Hindu Aryan Indians (Indus Saraswati) spoke about a series of Ten Pitris (Fathers) who ruled before the global Flood. Ancient Babylonian legend speaks of a pre-Flood series of Ten kings. The ancient Egyptians described Ten Shining Ones who ruled consecutively before the Deluge. The last of these Ten kings was the hero who led seven others aboard a vessel in which they survived the global Flood. In ancient India, that heros name was Manu who survived the global-Flood "pralaya" with the Seven Rishis. In ancient Babylon, that hero's name was Zisudra who spear-headed the survival on the Ark of seven other humans, the Seven Apkallu. In ancient Egypt, that Flood hero was Toth who survived the Deluge along with the Seven Sages.

Did the Vedic Aryans travel as far as Easter Island?

The Easter Islands located in the Pacific Ocean, were situated far away from any civilization. The craftsmanship of these islands corresponds to the one of the ancient Incas. The sign script of the Easter Islands almost equals the ancient scripts of Indus Valley.

Easter Island symbols

Indus Saraswati symbols

Were the Ancient Vedic civilization of Indus Saraswati valley Trans-Oceanic seafarers?

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 worlds 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.

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.

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."

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.

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 spoilation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, a pacifying love for all living things. "Europe and America are the spoiled child and grandchild of Asia and have never quite realized the wealth of their pre-classical inheritance."

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 source...

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.

Hu Shih,

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

American 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 When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found, that dispelled once and for all, the dream about Christianity being the sole revelation. - Nature makes a Brahmin of me presently.

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. I believe that the influence of the Sanskrit literature will penetrate not less deeply than did the revival of Greek literature in the fifteenth century.

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. It is of ages, climes, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I am at it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

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, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. Even now, after a lapse of a year, the delirium of those days in Bombay has not left me and I hope it never will.

Mark Twain,

American Entrepreneur (1955-2011):

Steve Jobs

Mohandas Gandhi is my choice for the Person of the Century because he showed us the way out of the destructive side of our human nature. Gandhi demonstrated that we can force change and justice through moral acts of aggression instead of physical acts of aggression. Never has our species needed this wisdom more." There is no-one that embodies what I want to become other than Gandhi, he changed the world.

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 in order to make our inner life more comprehensive, more universal, in fact a more truly human life, again, I should point to India". .. the Vedas are the oldest books in existence ... and it carries us back to times of which we have no records anywhere."

The Encyclopedia Britannica says:

"Man must have an original cradle land whence the peopling of the earth was brought about by migration. As to mans 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 life of man, that country is assuredly India.

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], they have this great feeling of something else that's just spiritual going on.

British Viceroy of India, (1859-1925): "India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, and the religion of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe."

Lord Curzon

"While we hold onto India, we are a first rate power. If we lose India, we will decline to a third rate power. This is the value of India."

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."

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.

Carl G Yung,
Swiss Psychiatrist (1894-1963): No system of thought today or body control is more widely known today than Yoga. When a religious method recommends itself as scientific, it can be certain of its public [interest] in the West. Yoga fulfils this expectation.

Dalai Lama,
(b-1935): Hindus and Buddhists, we are two sons of the same mother."

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 ".

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."

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.

American Scholar on Mythology (1904-1987): "It is ironic that our great western civilization, which has opened to the minds of all mankind the infinite wonders of a universe of untold billions of galaxies should be saddled with the tightest little cosmological image known to mankind? The Hindus with their grandiose Kalpas and their ideas of the divine power which is beyond all human. Not so alien to the imagery of modern science that it could not have been put to acceptable use."

Joseph Campbell

German Physicist, University of Chicago Nobel Laureate, founder of Quantum Physics, (1901-1976): After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

Werner Heisenberg

Author and International speaker on holistic medicine (b-1947): "I find that Vedanta, of all great traditions, does have a framework that I can come to terms with as a person who thinks that science is the most legitimate way of understanding the secrets of nature." " I regard Vedanta as a source which inspired Hinduism."

Deepak Chopra, MD.,

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."

Adam Smith,

Erwin Schrdinger,
Father of Quantum Physics: (1887-1961) Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. The stages of human development are to strive for Possession [Dharma], Knowledge [Ardha], Ability [Kama], Being [Moksha]. Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledgeIt has nothing to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further.when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier"

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."

H.G. Wells,

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 - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

George Bernard Shaw,

Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman (1856-1950): 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.

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. 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. They have forgotten their own profound modern sages like Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo who projected modern and futuristic views of the Indian tradition. While Westerners come to India seeking spiritual knowledge, Indian intellectuals look to the West with an adulation that is often blind, if not obsequious.

Dr David Frawley,

French Journalist and Writer (b-1950): Cry! O my beloved India!

Francois Gautier,

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, specially anybody who has a Hindu connection, makes you an intellectual. But in the process you have not only lost your roots, you have turned your back on a culture and civilisation that is thousands of years old and has given so much to the world. Cry O my beloved India, look what thy children have done to thee!

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 Hinduism are one.

Annie Wood Besant,

Sights of India

Mount Kailas, Himalayas

abode of bliss in Sanskrit

Andra Pradesh
Tirupati
Sacred shrine of Lord Sri Venkateswara or the Lord of Seven hills, this temple is located on a hill at Tirumala. Tirupati has overtaken the Vatican, not just as the richest temple in the world but also the most visited place of worship.

Golconda Fort

An extraordinary monument of Hyderabad, built in the 13th century by the Kakatiya kings. The present structure of the Golconda Fort was renovated by Qutub Shahi kings into a massive fort.

Hussain Sagar Lake, Lumbini Park

A lake in Hyderabad, India built by Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali in 1562, during the rule of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah. There is a large monolithic statue of the Gautam Buddha in the middle of the lake.

Lepakshi Temple

The famous Veerabhadra temple is a notable example of the Vijayanagar architectural style. It is famous for its sculptures, which were created by the artisans of Vijayanagara empire. A huge Nandi bull made out of a single granite stone is one of the attractions in Lepakshi.

West Bengal
Dakshineswar Temple
The famous Dakshineswar Kali temple is located on the eastern banks of the Hoogly river. It became the workplace for Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, the famous 20th century saint of India.

Situated at the mouth of the Ganges and is spread across areas of West Bengal. Known for the Royal Bengal Tigerand numerous fauna including species of birds, spotted deer, crocodiles and snakes. It is estimated that there are 500 Bengal tigers and about 30,000 spotted deer in the area. The forest spreads over 10,000 sq.km. It is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mud flats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests.

Sunderbans

Bishnupur Terracota Temples Victoria Memorial

Built by the Mala rulers in the 7th 18th century, unlike the temples and monuments built out of marble and stones brought from far-off places, the basic construction material for the Bishnupur temples was the local red soil.

Built by British Viceroy Lord Curzon in the memory of Queen Victoria. Built in the Italian Renaissance style with elements of Mughal architecture incorporated in it.

Karnataka
Caves of Badami
Carved on top of a hill, about 500 km from Bangalore. There are four major caves. They are temples dedicated to different religions. All the four caves are carved out of Deccan sandstone. They were built by the Chalukya Empire around 6th century.

Hampi

Hampi is the site of the once magnificent capital of the Vijayangar Empire, is a UNESCO world heritage site. The ruins of Hampi lies scattered in about 26 sq. km area, amidst giant boulders and vegetation. The first historical settlement in Hampi date back to 1 BC.

Pattadakal

Pattadakalal is renowned for the group of the 700AD-800AD monuments. These are listed in the UNESCOs list of World Heritage Sites. Located on the banks of the river Malaprabha, Pattadakal is the capital of the Chalukya rulers.

Mysore Palace

Situated in the city of Mysore, it was the official residence of the former Royal family. Every Autumn, the palace is the venue for the famous Mysore Dasara festival.

Jog Falls, formed by the Sharavathi River falling from a height of 253 meters (829 ft) it is the highest plunge waterfall in India. Located in Shimoga District of Karnataka state, these segmented falls are a major tourist attraction.

Jog Falls

Punjab
Golden Temple, informally referred to as The Golden Temple or Temple of God. It is culturally the most significant place of worship of the Sikhs and one of the oldest Sikh gurdwaras. Located in the city of Amritsar. Its architecture represents a unique harmony between the Muslims and the Hindu architecture.

Golden Temple

Qila Mubarak

A historical national monument of India, forms the heart of the city of Bathinda, in Punjab . It has been in existence for approximately 1900 years in its current form. Some sources have the structure in its original, primitive form dating back to the Harrapa period.

Wagah Border

Often called the Berlin Wall of Asia it is the only road order crossing between India and Pakistan, and lies on the Grand Trunk Road between the cities of Amritsar and Lahore. Each evening, there is a retreat ceremony called 'lowering of the flags'. At that time there is very energetic and thrilling posturing done by Border Security Force (B.S.F), India and Pakistan Rangers soldiers.

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Amritsar Massacre), in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on April 13th 1919, 90 British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. Official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379, and with 1100 wounded.

Jallianwala Bagh

Himachal Pradesh
Vice Regal Lodge
The Viceregal Lodge of Shimla is a heritage building that is situated on the Observatory Hill of Shimla. This building originally used to be the dwelling hub of the then Viceroy of India Lord Dufferin. It was the center of important decision making earlier like the historic Shimla conference of 1945 as well as the 1947 decision of partitioning India into Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Tabo Monastery

"Ajanta of the Himalayas", is popularly known, was founded in 996A.D. Located at an altitude of 3050 m, it offers magnificent views of the valley below. The monastery temples houses a priceless collection of manuscripts and Buddhist scroll paintings, exquisite statues in stuccos, frescos and murals depicting tales from the Mahayana Buddhist Pantheon.

Masroor Temple
The famous 15 monolithic rocks cut temples in the indo-aryan style, richly carved. The main Shrine contains three stone images of Lord Ram, his brother Lakshman and wife Sita. Located about 40 kms from Dharamshala.

Kangra Fort

The Kangra Fort is located 20 kilometers from the town of Dharamsala on the outskirts of the town of Kangra. The fort dates back to 1009 AD. It is the largest fort in the Himalayas and probably the oldest dated fort in India.

Tamil Nadu
Vivekananda Memorial
The Vivekananda rock temple, located in the midst

of the ocean, just 400 meters from Kanyakumari, is

dedicated to one of the greatest spiritual philosophers of India, Swami Vivekananda. It is said that Swami Vivekananda meditated here before setting out on one of the most crucial religious campaigns in India and to the West in 1892.

Rameshwaram

Rameshwaram is one of the most sacred pilgrimage destinations in India. It is located on an island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is less than 40 kilometers from the Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka.

Mahabalipuram

Local lore had long mentioned the existence of seven magnificent temples in the area, years ago, however six them were submerged in the sea, the 7th temple, UNESCO World heritage site, still stands on the shore. a of

Meenakshi Amman Temple' is a historic Hindu temple located in the holy city of Madurai. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva and his consort, Goddess Parvati. The temple forms the heart and lifeline of the 2500 year old city of Madurai.

Madurai

Haryana (Delhi)
Red Fort
The Red Fort (Lal Quila) and the city of Shahjahanabad was constructed by the Emperor Shah Jahan in 1639 A.D, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Every year on Independence Day the Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag and addresses the nation, from the ramparts of Red fort.

Lotus Temple
The Bah' House of Worship in Delhi, India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple due to its flowerlike shape, is a Bah' Worship and also a prominent attraction in Delhi. Though it serves as the mother temple of the Bah' religion, it is built by the Bah's for all to unite, regardless of religion or any other distinction. House of

India Gate

The India Gate is one of the largest war memorials in India. Situated in the heart of New Delhi, it is a prominent landmark in Delhi and commemorates the members of the erstwhile British Indian Army who lost their lives fighting for the Indian Empire in World War I and the Afghan Wars.

Jama Masjid

The Qutab Minar, a tower in Delhi, India, is the world's

Qutub Minar

The Mosque was built by Shah Jahan in 1648 and dedicated to his favorite daughter, Jahanara Begum.

tallest brick minaret. Construction commenced in 1193 under the orders of India's first Muslim ruler Qutb-ud-din Aibak. The Qutub Minar is notable for being one of the earliest and most prominent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture.

Uttar Pradesh
- Kushinagar - Garhwal Himalaya (Nanda Devi peak) - Varanasi (Ghats) - Varanasi (Sarnath) - Corbett National Park - Agra Fort - Taj Mahal - Rani Mahal - Valley of Flowers

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Ganges River, Varanasi

Rajasthan
City Palace
City Palace Udaipur is a palace situated in Udaipur. Built by Maharana Udai Singh, it is one of the main tourist attractions of the city. Standing on the east bank of Lake Pichola is a massive series of palaces built at different times from 1559. , India.

Ranthambore National Park

Ranthambore National Park is one of the largest and famous national parks in India. It is situated in Sawai Madhopur district of southeastern Rajasthan, about 130 km from Jaipur. It is is most famous for tiger population.

its large

Hawa Mahal Mehrangarh Fort

Mehrangarh Fort, located in Jodhpur city is one of the largest forts in India. The fort is situated on a lofty height, 400 ft above the city, and is enclosed by imposing thick walls. The fort is amongst the popular tourist places in India.

The Hawa Mahal palace, Jaipur, was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, and designed in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. It forms part of the City Palace and extends the women's chambers of the harem.

Jaisalmer Fort

Standing almost 30 m above the city of Jaisalmer is the Jaisalmer fort. The fort is also known as the Sonar Quila. This is because standing against the backdrop of the desert with its golden sand.

Western Thar Desert, Rajasthan

Orissa
Konark (Sun Temple)
Situated at a distance from the famous religious and tourist centre of Puri (35 Km.) and the capital city of Bhubaneswar (65 Km). The Sun Temple of Konark, in worship of Surya the Sun god, marks the highest point of achievement of Kalinga architecture depicting the grace, the joy and the rhythm of life all in its wondrous variety. It was built by King Raja Narasimhadeva-I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty in the 13th Century.

Bhubaneswar Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves

The origin of the rock cut caves of Udaygiri and Khandagiri dates back to the 2nd century B.C.E. The caves are located atop the twin hills known as Udayagiri and Khandagiri which rise abruptly from the coastal plain, about 6km West of Bhubaneswar. The main attraction of these caves consists of its stupendous carvings. Of all the caves in Udaygiri, the largest one is the Rani Gumpha.

Located in Bhubaneswar, the Lingaraja Shiva temples are located in a spacious courtyard. The Lingaraja temple is about 1000 years old.

Olive Ridley Sea Turtles

Found in the Indian Ocean along the Bay of Bengal. This sea turtle is especially known for its mass nesting when several thousand turtles migrate to the breeding ground to mate and nest simultaneously.

Bihar & Jharkhand

Nalanda University
Nalanda University, located about 55 miles south east of Patna was one of the first universities in the world, founded in 500 CE, and reported to have been visited by the Buddha during his lifetime.

Maluti BodhGaya (Mahabodhi Temple)

Located in Bodhgaya in Gaya District of Bihar. Constructed of brick, the temple is surrounded on all four sides by stone railings, about two metres high. Is the place where Buddha attained enlightenment. Buddhist Emperor Asoka visited Bodh Gaya with the intention of establishing a monastery and shrine.

Located near Shikaripara in Dumka District of Jharkhand. Built in Shikara style, which contains two rooms with a verandah. It is made of burnt bricks and lime mortars and items such as terracotta plates are used to decorate them. Most of the temples belong to the late medieval age. Majority of these temples are dedicated to Lord Shiva, & the rest to gods and goddesses such as Vishnu and Durga.

Jammu & Kashmir

Srinigar, Dal Lake
The Dal Lake, Srinagar, has rightfully become an icon of the Kashmir tourism industry. The sparkling quiet waters of Dal surrounded by snow-capped mountains on its three sides, mark it as one of the most beautiful lakes of India.

Amarnath Cave Shrine

The Amarnath caves are one of the most famous shrines for Hindus, dedicated to the god Shiva. Inside the main Amarnath cave lies an ice stalagmite resembling the Shiva Linga.

Gulmarg (Gondola)

The slopes of the Afarwat Hills of the Pir Panjal Range of the Himalaya Chain boast one of the longest and highest ski slopes in Asia.

Shalimar Gardens

The Shalimar Gardens were built by the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, in the lake city of Srinagar. Covering an area of approximately 539 m by 182 m, the Shalimar garden offers a an amazing view over the other g gardens, lakes and shallow terraces. Shalimar Garden was built by Mughal Emperor Jehangir in 1616 for his wife Nur Jahan. The garden is also a known as the "garden of love".

Anantnag (Martand Temple)

Situated on top of a plateau, near the town of Anantnag. It is the most memorable and beautiful work of King Lalitaditya which he built in honor of the Sun God or Bhaskar.

The Beauty of Kashmir

Kerala
Alleppy & Kumarakom Backwater
The Kumarakom Backwaters are located 16 km from Kottayam, it is one of the most popular backwater stretches in Kerala. Also known as the Venice of the East, it was here that traders from across the seven seas came in search of black gold and souvenirs.

Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple

Padmanabhaswamy Temple, in the city of Thiruvananthapuram is an architectural wonder and a magnificent Vishnu temple, situated in the heart of the city. The massive structure has a staggering 100 feet high "Gopuram", the main temple tower. Dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The massive idol of the deity measures 18 feet in length and is covered with gold and other precious stones.

Kovalam

Kovalam is famous for its beaches, among the most pristine in India. It is about 17 km from Thiruvananthapuram. Kovalam is among the most prominent tourist spots in India during the hippy era, but now offers International 5-star status hotels like the Leela Kempinski.

Jewish Synagogue Athirappalli and Vazhachal

Located in Kochi, Kerala. Athirappalli and Vazhachal, the two Built by the prosperous scenic and popular waterfalls on the Jewish trading community. edge of the Sholayar forest ranges Has rolls of Old Testament, are just 5km apart. old copper plates that have souvenirs and records of the privileges bestowed upon the Rajahs of Kochi.

Gods Own Country, Kerala

Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh

- Ujjain (Mahakaleshwar Temple, Ved Shala Observatory) - Khajuraho - Chhattisgarh (Bhoram Dev Temple) - Mandu - Bhopal (Bhimbetka caves 120,000 years old) - Bheda Ghat - Laxman Temple

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Maharashtra & Goa

- Ajanta (Ellora Caves) - Janjira Fort - Gateway of India (Elephanta Caves) - Gateway of India - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus - Basilica of Bom Jesus

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Gujarat
- Palitana - Gir Sanctuary - Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram - Dwarka - Modhera (Sun Temple Modhera) - Gandhinagar (Akshardham Temple)

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The Gods of India

1 Billion people, 1 Billion Gods

Ganesha

Rama

Trinity

Krsna

Devi

Saraswati

Murugan

Nanak

Buddha

Christ

The words of Lord Krsna crystallized in the Bhagavad Gita.

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 your 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 concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness? When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Lord Krsna counsels Prince Arjuna during the Great Mahabharata War, in Kurukshetra, India, circa 1300 B.C.E.

The 4 kinetic ideas behind Indian Spirituality Karma

The law of universal causality, which connects man with the cosmos and condemns him to transmigrate.

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 human experience as conditioned by Karma.

Moksha / Nirvana
Freedom from the delusion of separateness. The extinction of of the sense of the ego. The state of absolute blessedness, characterised by release from the cycle of reincarnations; freedom from the pain and care of the external world; bliss.

Yoga
Implies integration; bringing all the faculties of the conscious under the control of the self

AUM The first sound of the Almighty Infinite Reality - Oneness with the supreme

is the Sanskrit word for; Amen (Christian) Amin (Muslim) Aum (Hindu) Hm (Bhuddist)
Aum contains all the sounds of the nine octaves perceptible to the human ear, as well as all cosmic sounds, low or high, which can not be registered in the human ear.

Future

India: World's Largest Maitreya Buddha Statue India has started construction of the Worlds 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 a throne 17-storeys high, housing a huge temple with the feet resting on a Lotus, touching the Earth.

Secular Tolerance "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 with such diversity and tolerance to its political leadership."

Goldman Sachs Report of 1 October, 2003 "Dreaming with BRICs: The path to 2050"
India's GDP will reach $ 1 trillion by 2011, $ 2 trillion by 2020, $ 3 trillion by 2025, $ 6 trillion by 2032, $ 10 trillion by 2038, and $ 27 trillion by 2050, becoming the 3rd largest economy after USA and China. In terms of GDP, India will overtake Italy by the year 2016, France by 2019, UK by 2022, Germany by 2023, and Japan by 2032.

India: Permanent member of UN Security Council

Russia - "Assessing India as an important member of the international community, the Russian Federation reaffirmed its support to India as a deserving and strong candidate for the permanent membership of the UN Security Council," a Joint Statement issued on Thursday said on the results of the Indian President's visit to Russia on May 22-25. China - "China understands and supports the aspirations of India to become a permanent member of the Security Council. On the issue of India becoming the permanent member of the Security Council, there will be no obstacle on the Chinese side." said the Chinese Vice Foreign, Minister Wu Dawei. UK - "India's population is more than the combined population of the US, Russia and France. There is a strong case for India's membership of the UN Security Council, along with those of Germany, Japan and Brazil," said Foreign Minister Jack Straw. Taiwan - "India is qualified and competent to be a permanent member of the Security Council and deserves to be supported by UN members, said Foreign Minister Eugene Chien. France It is hard to imagine how one could exclude [India] from the possibility of holding a permanent seat [at the Security Council] given its characteristics," said Jacques Chirac. United States - "We must consider the possibility of a seat for India in the UN Security Council," said George Bush a leadership summit.

Progress during the last 30 years

Poverty Incidence Education (literarcy rate)

50.000%

80.0%

37.500%

60.0%

25.000% 40.0% 12.500% 2000s 0% 1980s 1990s 2010s 20.0% 1980s

Health (life expectancy)

1990s

0% 2000s 2010s

70.0 52.5 35.0 17.5 1980s 1990s 2000s 0 2010s

Source: World Bank (2003) Census of India (2001)

Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh

India is on the road to progress. The whole world is watching us with expectation. It is possible for us to eradicate poverty, ignorance and disease within our lifetime. This has been made possible by the advances in science and technology. There comes a time in the history of a nation when it can be said that the time has come to make history. We are today at the threshold of such an era. The world wants us to do well and take our rightful place on the world stage. There are no external constraints on our development. If there are any hurdles, they are internal.

Ex-Prime Minister, Shri 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 that is necessary, to walk as many extra miles as may be required, to make this vision a reality.

father of Indias 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? 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. I have a third vision. India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only STRENGTH respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand.

Dr Abdul Kalam, Ex-President of India,

Indias population to be the largest in the world

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050. Indias population is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to increase more slowly from its current 1.3bn to 1.44bn. It is predicted that by 2015, over half of the Indian population will be less than twenty years old. 600 Million of Indias population is under 25-years old. 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.

and Finally

Swami Vivekananda
Indian Philosopher, (1863-1902): Children of India , Many times have I been told that looking into the past only degenerates and leads to nothing, and that we should look to the future. That is true. But, out of the past is built the future. Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that, look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was. Our ancestors were great. We must recall that. We must learn the elements of our being, the blood that courses in our veins. We must have faith in that blood and what it did in the past

Designed, Researched, Compiled and Published by Suresh Kumar

(s u r e s h . k u m a r @ m e . c o m) last updated: 31st May 2011.

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