INDIA - Mera Bharat Mahaan...

• There is 17 major languages and 844 dialects spoken in India.
• India was one of the richest countries on earth until the British invasion in the early 17th century.
• India invented the number system and Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.Quadratic Equations were used 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 (i.e. 10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C.during the Vedic period.Even today, the largest used number is Terra: 10*12(10 to the power of 12).
• Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. According to his calculation, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician 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.
• Chess was invented in India.
• India is the 6th largest country in the world, the largest democracy and one of the oldest civilization.
• India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
• India is one of the largest exporter of computer software products.
• Before 1986, India was the only place in the world where Diamonds could be found.
• The biggest and the largest employer in the world is Indian railways employing over a million people.
• India has the most number of post offices in the world.
• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.
• India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.
• Rabies is endemic in India. Additionally, “Delhi Belly” or diarrhea is commonplace due to contaminated drinking water.
• India is the birthplace of chess.l The original word for “chess” is the Sanskritchaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers.
• The Indian flag has three horizontal bands of color: saffron for courage and sacrifice, white for truth and peace, and green for faith, fertility, and chivalry. An emblem of a wheel spinning used to be in the center of the white band, but when India gained independence, a Buddhist dharma chakra, or wheel of life, replaced the spinning wheel.
• Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient Indian medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism,physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
• Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
• There where no plastic bags in India before 1985.
• The highest cricket ground in the world is Chail in Himachal Pradesh, India.