Q India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
A Before British or Moguls came to India, the whole region was split in to smaller kingdoms, fiefdoms and landlords. We were as different as strangers to each other. Moguls sensed this weakness and conquered us one by one and this was beginning of the formation of the present day India. All the good things we have today of luxury were borrowed from the Moguls. India was united, as in present form, only by British in 1858 and until 1947 as it covered the territories of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Burma. British handed over a smaller India to us then they ruled. We were happy to call it India as it was a precious gift to us from England. Without British intervention we would have been a Muslim country an extension of Islam from Middle East to the Far East. Even for the argument sake Chinese and Egyptians have much older civilizations.
Q India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
A True. It’s because we didn’t have balls, nor have them or have any plans of having them soon in the future. Where is the need?
Q India is the world’s largest democracy.
A Yep it’s true. As we were and are a poor country the only thing we can afford to buy is Democracy. Communism is very costly as everyone must have a home and food under this ideology – which is still eluding more than half of the country. To be a dictator of a country like India you need balls like Moguls and British when they ruled us. Being a poor country and no balls the only cheap off the rack option available to us is to remain democratic.
Q Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called “the ancient city” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
A ……And the point is …………..?
Q India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
A Before the time of Christ, early Babylonians and Hindus began using a symbol that eventually evolved into our numeral 0. You can see the Babylonian symbol we use today is similar to the Hindu symbol. Both cultures used it to tell one number from another. For example, to distinguish a 4 from a 400 they would use the symbol for zero twice. But they didn’t use zero as a numeral. They wouldn’t compute 400 - 0 = 400. This was an enormous conceptual leap nonetheless, for it led to our modern-day concept of place value. It is much easier to represent twenty bags of grain with the numeral 2 and the symbol 0 than as twenty separate marks as other cultures did. The first Hindu who figured the magic out from ZERO was called Manikarvasagyartirbugnamhadarttnamalwar. The people who were responsible for our education and doctoring our history books to give us some self respect in free India had a tough time pronouncing the name above hence picked few relevant alphabets and coined the name Aryabhatta.
Q The World’s first university was established in Takshashila 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. –
A Why are you claiming something that exists in Pakistan. Let Pakistan choke on this fact, we look phoney by claiming this.
Q 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.
A You got me on this one. But isn’t Sanskrit the language the foreign invaders, Aryans, from the Caucasia brought to us as we busy speaking in some tribal languages?
Q Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
A Yeah – it’s cheaper to pluck plants and eat them then buying expensive antibiotics.
Q Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth.
A It was not our India. It was Mughal sultanate and their loot from Asia which Changez Khan and his decendants deposited in a far off place what we call India today.
Q The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’.
A It is Pakistan we are referring again. Stay focused and within the borders of our present day India. However Its easy for us to rhyme anything we come across and I wont be surprised that some overzealous Indian might lay a claim on naming the USA as America contains A and M in its beginning and it can be alleged that it means Mango ( AM or AAM ), hence America has stolen the name from India.
Q 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.
A Bhaskaracharya’s real name was Bob Haskarach Larya (L is silent hence read Arya) and he was the maternal uncle of William Marshall Smart the great astronomer. Some Keshav is again trying to screw with your head. Stay focused. If it was Hindus who discovered the days in the year then how come a Hindu calendar still says we have 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 36 seconds in a year? And you guys are following a Georgian calendar?
Q The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, 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.
A You can say whatever comes to your mind as it doesn’t cost anything. I have heard of “BUDHAYANA” pickles being sold in India but have never heard of a Theorem based on this brand. Budhayana Theorem my ass!
Q Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
A This should be the eye opener as to why Greeks and Romans were the biggest empires of their time. While they were contended with their counts and maths and were expanding their culture and empire, we were looking for ways to claim their success by concocting cock-a-doodle-do stories no one is buying.
Q IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
A You just don’t give up do you? To cross check your monkey brain output I went to www.ieee.org site and fed the name Prof. Jagdish Bose and the output came “Results for “(prof. jagdish bose) metadata” Your search matched 0 of 1489021 documents”.
Q The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
A I agree. It was the earliest one in India. In the world it was Egyptians who were the first ones.
Q 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.
A Quacks have been a major problem in India and I don’t dispute that someone called Sushruta got creative and started carving people with his knife and dagger and branded them as surgery.
Q When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
A Which doesn’t belong to us as they are in Pakistan. They are claiming it as well and world is getting confused.
Q The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.
A and is concentrated in mainly 1% of total countries ( India and China) in the world ( there are about 193 countries) and is on the verge of Population explosion. India also has enormous problems with overpopulation. The current population is over a billion but India doesn’t have the large land mass that China has. India is experiencing major problems with declining water tables due to over-extraction beyond sustainable yield. Don’t just mention the matter out of the context as it misleads our countrymen and keeps them confused.
Q The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
A Let me correct you again - The first decimal system was introduced in the 4th Century BC by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia, to whom the invention of writing is credited. They based their numerical system on powers of 60 subdivided into multiples of 10. It was from this system that Sumero-Babylonians developed the time system that we use today: each hour is divided into 60 minutes, which are divided into 60 seconds. However, they did not have a symbol for zero, which was introduced by Arabians only toward the end of the first millennium BC.
Q India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
A At the end of the Second World War, the White countries in Europe were physically and psychologically weakened: the balance of power passed firmly to the United States on the one hand and the Soviet Union the other. These factors, combined with resurgence in non-White nationalisms in the colonies, led directly to the post-war wave of decolonization. Almost all the colonies were disbanded during this era. India was not in a position to attack physically and mentally superior white masters hence waited till they got tired and gave us our freedom.
Q India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
A So is that the reason we are a third world nation?
Q India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
A Yes we can understand and read English. Speaking in English is a different theme altogether. As most of us have to resort to our local tribal languages to support English in order to be understood. One of our convent educated girl Shilpa Shetty was abused by English participants as they couldn’t understand as to what she was blabbering. Slapped with the racism charge, our best weapon against the white civilised world, the generous whites handed over the crown to a third world girl and backed off in humility.
Q India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously –
A How about an Enema? You need help. You all need help! You all need cleansing as the ??? is floating all around in your body.
Q 60% of Indians are known to have the smallest penises in the world, a report in BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6161691.stm) said it all.
A It’s a serious issue and you all should not brag about it as everyone knows that “size does matter”! Just click on the following link to see as to how the world is reacting to this bragging of yours (http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/12/size_matters_co.html).
