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Proud To Be An "Indian"

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Shweta Saini
May 28, 2019   •  21 views

"What makes a nation, is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past", says the noted historian Eric Hobsbawm.

When talking of a nation, it becomes absolutely imperative that the past should also be talked about. And the past of India is fascinating as it is momentous.

Here are some interesting facts about the Indian history.

  • Chess was invented in India.

  • Indian democracy is the largest democracy in the world with 1.2 billion people.

  • India holds the third largest army in the world.

  • May 26 is celebrated as the Science Day in Switzerland in honour of former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad because on the day Kalam visited the country.

  • Algebra, Trignometry and calculus are studies, which originated in India.

  • The most number of movies are made in India, over 1000 each year.

  • India has the second largest English speaking population in the world.

  • Besides the US and Japan, India is the only country in the world to indigenously built a super computer.

  • India never invaded any country in her past 100000 years of history.

  • The Indian national kabaddi teams has won all world cups.

  • Until 1896, india was the only source of diamond in the world.

  • India has the largest number of post offices in the world.

  • The 2nd largest number of scientists and engineers in the world are in India.

  • India exports softwares to 90 countries.

  • Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. It is the most precise and therefore suitable language for computer software.

  • India is the largest producer of milk, cashew nuts, coconuts, tea, ginger, turmeric and black pepper, in the world. It also has the largest cattle population (281 million). It is the second largest producer of wheat, sugar, rice, groundnut and inland fish.

  • The largest employer in the world is the Indial Railway system employing over a million people.

  • Indians abroad-

  1. 38% of doctors in America are Indians.

  2. 12% of scientists in America are Indians.

  3. 36% of NASA employees are Indians.

  4. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

  5. 28% of IBM employees are Indians.

I am proud to be Indian. The only country which has different religions, languages, culture which together form one nation. India is also a best example of “Unity is Strength”.

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