Wednesday, March 23, 2005

What If...

the World was triangular

we were unisexual

the Sun has H2o instead of H2

opposites had no opposites

we lived under the Earth, walking upside down

knives shoot and guns stab

rains from Earth to the Sky

there was no Time

past, present & future are the same

we are born old and die young

light has sound

all elements have only one property

babies give birth to mothers

Satan is good and God is evil

there was NOTHING

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Thursday, March 03, 2005

INDIA - Some Facts...


  • India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
  • India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
  • The World's first university was established in Takshila 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.
  • Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software, reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
  • Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
  • 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.
  • The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 10^6(10 to the power of 6) 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).
  • According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
  • USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of Wireless communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
  • The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
  • According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
  • Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
  • Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology,digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
  • When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)
  • The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
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There are 3.22 Millions of INDIANs in USA (1.5 % of population).

YET, 38% of doctors in USA 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.

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Quotes about India:

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without
which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made"

--Albert Einstein.

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human
speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great
grand mother of tradition"

--Mark Twain.

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living
men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the
dream of existence, it is India"

--French scholar Romain Rolland.

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Vinod Khosla - Co-founder of Sun Microsystems

Vinod Dahm - creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)

Azim Premji, CEO of Wipro Industries Who is the third richest man on the world? (According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, he is 3rd and the Sultan of Brunei is at 6th)

Sabeer Bhatia - The founder and creator of Hotmail

Arun Netravalli - President of AT & T-Bell Labs, Chief Sceitnist in Lucent Technologies

Rajiv Gupta - GM of Hewlett Packard

Sanjay Tejwrika – The new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems

Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar - The Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart

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Mathematicians born in India:

Apastamba
Aryabhata I
Aryabhata II
Baudhayana
Bhaskara I
Bhaskara II
Bose
Brahmadeva
Brahmagupta
De Morgan
Govindasvami
Harish-Chandra
Jagannatha
Jyesthadeva
Kamalakara
Katyayana
Lalla
Madhava
Mahavira
Mahendra Suri
Manava
Narayana
Nilakantha
Panini
Paramesvara
Patodi
Pillai
Prthudakasvami
Rajagopal
Ramanujam
Ramanujan
Sankara
Sommerville
Sridhara
Sripati
Varahamihira
Vijayanandi
Henry Whitehead
Yativrsabha
Yavanesvara

Source: Google

Friday, January 28, 2005

Bite Me!

Teacher: What is the opposite of Area?
Student: Yeranguya !

What is the similarity between Krishna Jayanthi and communism?
Kaal marks.

How do flies communicate?
e-mail

What is the similarity between short circuit and poramai?
Wire-eriyarthu

What is the similarity between boxing and goddess kali?
Naak-out :-P

Deepavalikkum pongalukkum yennanga vithyaasam?
Deepavali annikku pongal saapadalaam aana Pongal annikku Deppavaliya sapda mudiyaadhu.

LEO coffee a yaen kalyanam pannikka mudiyaadhu?
Yaenna "Manamaana" coffee LEO coffee (Manam = Wedding)

Yen, desert-la irukkara post-office-la ellarum letter ezhudhittu, stamp vangittu, veliya pora?
Enna, veliya dhan otta-gum irukku.

Oru English therinja maadu(cow) theatre pakkam porathu. Anga theatre kadhavai kadikka arambichuduthu! Yen?
Enna, Kadhavula "Pull"-nnu ezhudhirukku.

Mahathma Gandhijikkum, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathanukkum yenna vidyasam?
Gandhi Non-violinist. Vaidyanathan Violinist.

Spin Bowlarruku pen kuzhandai perandal enna payru vaipar?
Bala Tiruppura Sundari

Independenceday-kkumRepublicday-kkum yenna vidyasam?
Sumaar, anjara maasam.

What is the opposite of PENGUIN ?
AAN KING (!)

Q:Pura(Dove) kittayum, Anil(Squirel) kittaiyaum letter anupicha edhu correcta poi serum?
Anilthan, yenna adhu kittathan Pin Codu Irukku.

A: What is the opposite of MAZHAI MEGAM
Mazhai may not come!!

Teacher: What is the opposite of Area?
Student: Yeranguya !

Aravindswamy-kku opposite enna?
Aravind did not see me.

Which city does not respect Vijay?
Vijayawada

What is the difference between mosquito and fly?
Mosquito can fly, but fly cannot mosquito.

Oru room ku ulla oru e poyi ukkaruthu. How you say it in English?
INSAT 1B

Rani tells ilavarasan, nee poyi andha Raajyathai vendru va. How does she tell it in English?
Govindaraj (Go win the Raj)

Meen saapidum podhu mullu kuthaama irukka enna pannanum?
Kaalle seruppu podanum

LOL!