55% of foreign doctors in USA are Indians.
65% of foreign computer programmers are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.
Indians own nearly 40% of all the small and mid-size hotels in the country.
Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.
One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla, is an Indian. Creator of Pentium chip, Vinod Dahm, is an Indian. The founder and creator of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, is an Indian. The president of AT & T-Bell Labs is Arun Netravalli, an Indian.
The man responsible to solve the problems of Windows 2000 is Sanjay
Tejwrika, the Microsoft Testing Director.
Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. From a sample of 2004 US Census based surveys, Asians are the highest earning subgroup with a median income of $57,518 compared to the national average of $44,389. They are the most educated and well-off among all the immigrant communities.
Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year.
With about 800 movies per year, India's film industry overshadows Hollywood.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India dating back to at least 100 BC.
The solar year was calculated as 365.25875684 days by Bhaskaracharya in the 5th century, hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. The value of pi was first calculated by Bodhayana, who also discovered the Pythagorean Theorem in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
Gross Domestic Product of India is 4th in the world. Growing at 6%, Indian GDP on a PPP basis will be at the same level the US is at today in about 25 years.
Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.
Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India.
India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world.
India has the third-largest investor base in the world.
The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
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Among all countries in the world, India has inherited
the largest number of ancient manuscripts from time
immemorial. They were written on the widest range of
subjects known to humans.
Indians have traveled around the world in ships to
spread their knowledge since millenia. The oldest
universities of the world like Patali Putra and Taksha
Sila are located in India. Scholars from far east and
Europe came here for higher knowledge.
"The oldest University of the world was founded at
Taxila, where taught the great grammarian Panini."
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