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1. 1. SIT BACK, RELAX & ENJOY ! Facts about India ! Part -3

2. 2. 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 splendour 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
themushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world’sfirst 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. “ Please click to advance >
3. 3. 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.“ Please click to advance >
4. 4. Hu Shih, 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.” Please click to advance >
5. 5. 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."
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6. 6. 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 ushow to count, without which no worthwhilescientific discovery
could have been made.“ Please click to advance >
7. 7. Will Durant, American historian, (1885-1981): "India was the motherland of our race,
and Sanskrit the mother of Europes 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 spoliation, 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.”
8. 8. 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... ” Please click to advance >
9. 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 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 oldintelligence 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.” Please click to
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10. 10. Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher (1788-1860): "In the whole world there is
no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of theUpanishads. It has been the solace of
my life – it will be the solace of my death." “It is the most rewarding and the
mostelevating book which can be possible in the world. “ “I believe that the influence of
the Sanskritliterature will penetrate not less deeply than did the revival of Greek literature
in the fifteenth century.” Please click to advance >
11. 11. 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 havefelt that some unearthly and unknown
light illuminatedme. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of the
sectarianism. It is of ages, climes, and nationalities and is the royalroad for the attainment
of the Great Knowledge. When Iam at it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a
summer night.“ Please click to advance >
12. 12. Mark Twain, American Author (1835-1920): “This is India! The land of dreams and
romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour 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
globecombined. 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.”
13. 13. Ken Wilber American Philosopher and Author (b-1949): “Larry [ Warchowski ] is
just about as philosophically /spiritually well read as anyone youre likely to find, and The
Matrix films are a stunning tribute to that fact.Larry said that when he found Kens work,
"It was like Schopenhauer discovering the Upanishads." Please click to advance >
14. 14. Professor Max Muller, (1823-1900): "India, what can it teach us?, "If I were to look
over the whole world to find out thecountry most richly endowed with all the wealth,
power andbeauty 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 thethoughts of
the Greeks and Romans and of the Semitic race and the Jewish may draw that corrective
which is mostwanted in order to make our inner life more comprehensive, more
universal, in fact a more truly human life, again, I should point to India". Please click to
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15. 15. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says: "Man must have an original cradle land whence
the peopling of the earth was brought about by migration.As to man’s 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 thehonour of having been the cradle of
the Human race or at least the scene of primitive civilization, the successivedevelopments
of which carried into all parts of the ancientworld and even beyond, the blessings of
knowledge whichis the second life of man, that country is assuredly India.“ Please click
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16. 16. 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 Icome 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 thats just spiritual going on. “ Please click to
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17. 17. Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, (1895-1976): “India was China’s teacher in religion and
imaginative literature, and world’s teacher in Trigonometry, quadratic equations,
grammar,phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess aswell as in philosophy, and she
inspired Boccasccio, Goethe, Schopenhauer and Emerson." Please click to advance >
18. 18. Voltaire Author and Philosopher, (1694-1778): "It does not behove us, who were
onlysavages and barbarians when these Indian and Chinese peoples were civilized and
learned, to dispute their antiquity." Please click to advance >
19. 19. 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 itsenduring value, not only for the Indians, but also for all mankind. It
is perhaps the most systematic spiritual statement of the perennial philosophy. “ Please
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20. 20. Dalai Lama, (b-1935): “Hindus and Buddhists, we are two sons of the same mother."
Friedrich Mejer : •“It will no longer remain to be doubted that •the priests of Egypt and
the sages of Greece •have drawn directly from the original well of India, •that it is to the
banks of the Ganges and the Indus•that our hearts feel drawn as [if] by some hidden
urge.” Please click to advance >
21. 21. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): “Now it is not good for the Christians health to hustle
theHindu 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’ ". Please click to
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22. 22. John Archibald Wheeler Theoretical Physicist, who coined “Black Hole” (b-1911):
“Ilike to think that someone will trace how thedeepest thinking of India made its way to
Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times.” Please click to advance >
23. 23. Guy Sorman, author of “Genius of India”:“Temporal notions in Europe were
overturned by an India rooted in eternity. The Bible had been the yardstick for measuring
time, but the infinitely vast time cycles of India suggested that the world was much older
than anything the Bible spoke of. It seem as if the Indian mind was better prepared for the
chronological mutations of Darwinian evolution and astrophysics.”
24. 24. Adam Smith, Father of economics, and author of “Wealth of Nations”: (1723-1790)
"The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs
NorthAmerica, and that of the mercantile company [BritishEast India Company] which
oppresses and domineers in the East Indies[India], cannot perhaps be better illustrated
than by the different state of those countries." Please click to advance >
25. 25. H.G. Wells, 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 suchas could
nowhere have existed except in India." Please click to advance >
26. 26. 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
thetables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). …The Hindu systems of
astronomy are by far the oldestand that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and -
even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.” Please click to advance >
27. 27. 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 Creators hand.” Please click to advance >
28. 28. Dr David Frawley, 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
secondmillennium 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 mimickedWestern 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, Indianintellectuals look to the West with an adulation that is
often blind, if not obsequious.” Please click to advance >
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30. 30. Worlds Largest Maitreya Buddha Statue India has started construction of the World’s
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. Please click to advance >
31. 31. 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 thats 82% Hindu.I defy anyone to cite another country
with such diversity and tolerance to its political leadership." Please click to advance >
32. 32. Goldman Sachs Report of 1 October, 2003 – "Dreaming with BRICs: The path to
2050" Indias 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.
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33. 33. Progress during the last 20 years Poverty (incidence) 1980s 1990s 2000 44% 36%
26% Education (literacy rate) 1980s 1990s 2000 44% 52% 65% Health (life expectancy)
1980s 1990s 2000 56 Source: World60 (2003) Bank 69 click to advance > Please
34. 34. Ex-Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari VajpayeeA 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.” Please click to advance >
35. 35. Dr. Abdul Kalam, Ex President of India, father of India’s 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
enforceour way of life on them. Why? 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. “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. I have a THIRD vision.
India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that unlessIndia 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.”
36. 36. India’s population to be the largest in the world India is set to overtake China as the
worlds most populous nation by 2050. India’s population is expected to grow from
1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn
currently.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. Please click to advance >
37. 37. Annie Wood Besant, 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 Indias 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 Indias own children do not cling to her faith - who shall
guard it?- India alone can save India and India and Hinduism are one.” Please click to
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