Don't Forget you are a Shining Star

* India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.

* India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

* India established the world's first University at Takshasila in 700 B.C.

* Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages. It is the best suited language for computer software (Forbes magazine, July 1987).

* Ayurveda is the earliest system of medicine known to humans.

* The art of navigation originated in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. Navigation comes from the Sanskrit word "Nav Gatih".

* Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by earth to orbit the sun as 365.258756484 days (in 5th century A.D).

* In the 6th century A.D Budhayana calculated the value of pi . Quadratic equations were propunded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.

* According to the Gemological Institute of America , upto 1896, India was the only source for diamonds.

* IEEE has proved an age old suspicion that the pioneer of wireless communication is Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.

* The earliest reservoir and dam was built in Saurashtra, India during Chandragupta Maurya's time (300 B.C)

* Chess originated in India.

* Susruta is known as the father of surgery, performing complex surgeries as many as 2600 years ago