some interesting facts about INDIA

• India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
• India invented the number system (ARYABHATTA invented zero).
• India established the first university at Thakshasila in 700 B.C.
• Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages.
• Sanskrit is the best suited language for computer software(Forbes magazine, July 1987)
• Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.
• The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh , 6000 years ago.
• Navigation comes from the word "NAV GATIH".
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the Sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D.).
• In the 6th century A.D. Budhayana calculated the value of "PI".
• Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century A.D.
• According to the Gemological Institute Of America, upto 1896, India was the only source for "DIAMONDS".
• IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of "wireless communication" is Jagdish chandra bose and not Marconi.
• The earliest Resorvoir and Dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandra gupta Maurya's time (300 B.C.).
• Chess originated in India.
• Susruta is known as the "Father of Surgery", performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago.