India is an illogical idea, one divinity, contradictory faiths, 18 languages 25 states, mountains and deserts, floods and famines, poverty without despair, ancient yet modern, conservative yet open, million mutinies,miraculous union, birth place of Intellectuals, unity in diversity but one thing is etched in their hearts- "I am an Indian"
FACTS AND QUOTES ABOUT INDIA
>> India invented the Number System.
>> The first university was established in Takshashila,
India.
>> Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
>>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.
>> Mark Twain said: 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.
our most valuable and most instructive materials in
the history of
man are treasured up in India only.
>>French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place
on the
face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a
home
from the very earliest days when man began the dream of
existence, it
is India.
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