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3 Incredible India Today's Largest & Greatest Democracy
anandjee47
6 min - Jun 19, 2008

Most people have been brainwashed with false and misleading information on the Religion, Culture and History of India. Most Indians living in the west have very little or no knowledge about their own Religion, Culture and History. If you have children, it is your duty as a parent to educate them... Kamlesh Patel (09-14-00) 1. India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without using violence. 2. The greatest games of all, CHESS and PLAYING CARDS originated from India. 3. The Art of Meditation and Yoga originated from India. 4. Martial Arts (karate and Judo) originated from India, not China. 5. The World's first University was established in Takshila, India, in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. 6. India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history. 7. Everything which was either discovered or invented by the Indians in India was cleverly denied authenticity and downplayed by those who came to rule India, the Arabs and the British. 8. Sanskrit, the oldest language in the World, originated from India. 9. The ancient Indian astronomers had tabulated the movement and positions of the sun, planets and the stars in space, long before Isaac Newton came up with the theory of gravity after the apple had fallen on his head. 10. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi. 11. Cleverly termed by the west as Arabic numerals simply because the Arabs brought the knowledge of India to the West after invading India. Hindsaa (numerals) in Arabic means from India. 12. India was the most peaceful country on earth before the Arab invasion in the 8th Century. 13. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'. 14. 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. 15. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization. 16. Budhayana first calculated the value of "pi", 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. 17. 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 and brain surgery. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, aetiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts. 18. India is the largest Democracy in the World. 19. The greatest knowledge on Love, the Kama Sutra is the work of India.

2 Incredible India The Present: Since Painful Independance
anandjee47
2 min - Jun 19, 2008

A uniquely spiritual country which one Indian leader called the wholesaler of spiritual goodness, where the rest of the world came to buy its goodness. After all the Beatles had gone to India to seek guidance from the Maharishi. The country suffered from such severe foreign exchange shortage that to go abroad you had to get a Form P approved by the government and you were allowed only £3 (4.4 euros; $6) in foreign exchange. To help pay for my first year's university education in Britain my father had to buy sterling on the Mumbai black market and I smuggled £900 hidden in specially stitched underwear. Emerging class It was only as the Air India plane carrying me cleared Indian air space and I went to the loo to take my money out that I could breathe a huge sigh of relief and begun to believe that I would get to England. Ambassador car The Ambassador car was once one of two makes of car allowed in India Such was the scarcity in the country that there was a Guest Control Order which meant you could not invite more than fifty people for a meal - at weddings all you got was a thin slice of ice cream. Government newsreels exhorted people not to over eat or waste food. The India I have just been to could not be more different. Poverty is still there, 80% of the population live on 20 rupees (25p) a day, according to a survey, but a large well off group has also emerged. Some 250 million are reckoned to be very well off, many of them very rich. They have no reluctance to display wealth. Mammon is openly worshipped. As my old school friend Munir put it on our days, partly inspired by the socialist ideology than prevalent, wealth was considered a bad word. Now if you have money you spend it and let the world know you have. I received the most vivid evidence of this when I went to a Rolls Royce car show room. Old traditions It was located in a new shopping mall - the great growth industry in urban India. Sharad Kachalia, the man in charge, told me he had sold 24 Rolls Royce Phantoms in the last two years, all to local Indian businessmen. The cars were bespoke, imported from Goodwood in Sussex. Both of us recalled how different things were in the India of our youth. Mumbai skyline Poverty can still be seen along Mumbai sea front Then the government allowed only two car makes, a Morris Oxford which was called an Ambassador and a Fiat. The wait for the Morris Oxford was four years, 14 for a Fiat. Lack of new cars meant that the cost of second-hand cars kept increasing and not depreciating as is the norm. Yet even in this display of wealth, explained Kachalia, came wrapped in the old cultural, family, traditions of India. The decision to buy the car was not the choice of a rich businessman, but his whole family. One man said he wanted to make sure that the back of the Rolls had enough space for his grandchildren. As Kachalia drove me along the sea face at Worli in Mumbai (Bombay) we went past hand carts and all the other assortments of vehicles you can still see in India, past poor shanties and road side stalls. But while all gathered to watch this fabulous car, there was no hostility just curiosity. This was even more emphatically underlined, when I went to what used to be called Back Bay, along the south Mumbai sea front. Dingy shack Forty years ago I had played beach cricket and it was a lovely secluded beach. Since then land has been reclaimed, huge high rise buildings have gone up, some of the most expensive property in the world. However in a corner of the former beach the fishermen who have always fished here live. One of took me to his dingy shack, which was terribly overcrowded. Six of them were living in a small room. But he felt no anger for the high rise properties dwarfing him - it seemed to be part of the price of change. Indians at an Iron Maiden concert American goods and services are popular in modern India After all in his little room he had a fridge and television. He could vote and always voted, in contrast to his richer neighbours who often felt they could bypass democracy by bribing the right officials. In many ways my old school friends best illustrate the changes that have come over India in the last few decades. Munir Visram, my oldest friend, has lived in the same Bombay flat since independence. It was on his balcony that I first heard an Elvis record. Unlike me he never wanted to leave India. Today, thanks to a booming economy and no problems of foreign exchange, he has travelled to more parts of the world than I have and proudly displays his Indian passport.

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