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Aug 15 , India’s Independance Day. Hopefully one day we “Kutchis” will manage to put up a float in the Fremont Independance Parade. 🙂
On this special day maybe we can post a few nice-to-know facts about India. (Dont include well-known facts like world’s largest democracy. Dont cut and paste a whole India factoid paragraph from some website. )
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.
As per Registrar of Newspapers in India Uttar Pradesh is the State with the largest number of registered newspapers: Newspapers registered -9,757
For more details visit
http://rni.nic.in/
Derived from the Sanskrit word Navgatih, Navigation first started in the Sindhu river about 6000 years ago.
The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the City Montessori School in Lucknow as the world’s largest school with 23,000 students.
Albert Einstein said: “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made”.
Something of interest hopefully for the techies
Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the
today’s computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji,
who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th
position now.
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator
of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives.
Read in the Mercury Newspaper: New CEO of PepsiCo is a lady, Indra Nooyi. Born and brought up in Chennai, India.
India’s IT icon and head of Infosys Technologies N R Narayana Murthy is joining the Board of Trustees of The Indus Enterprises (TiE) Inc (Global), a world-wide network of businessmen and professionals dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship.
Hey,
No one seemed to mention this.
India – The land that gave the world Kutchis !!!
Nitul,
We just talked about KV float in Independence day parade yesterday and
there comes the past post 🙂
One day this dream will be realized.