A friend of mine, sent me this.
- The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE.
- Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.
- With 800 movies per year, India’s film industry overshadows Hollywood.
- The organised lottery market in India is US$7bn (2% of GDP).
- India consumes a fifth of the world’s gold output.
- Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year.
- Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP (on a PPP basis) will be at the same level the US is at today.
- Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years. No other country has won more than twice.
- Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its GDP OE again, among the
highest in the world. - Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management.
- India has the third-largest army in the world, nearly 1.5 million strong.
- India is the largest producer and consumer of tea in the world,
accounting for more than 30% of global production and 25% of consumption. - India is the world’s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing.
Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India. - India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with
USFDA. - India is home to the largest number of pharmaceutical plants (61)
approved by USFDA outside the US. - India’s Hero Honda is the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production of 1.7m units.
- Other than US and Japan, India is the only country to have built a
super computer indigenously. - Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, with a staff of
1.6 million people. - It is the second-largest cement-producing country in the world,
producing more than 110m tonnes. - Of the Fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India.
- There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the UK, 15% of the country’s
total dining-out establishments. - India is the largest democracy in the world, with nearly 400m voting in the last national elections.
- India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world. 24* India has the third-largest investor base in the world.
- According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds.
- The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 12 years in the city of Allahabad, attracts 25 million people OE more than the population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world.
- The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
- There are 3.22 million Indians in the US.
- Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires.
India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches. - There are over 70,000 bank branches in India – among the highest in the world.
Sounds nice so I posted it but what is important to note is that we have a long way to go.
Its makes me a very proud Indian! I am refering this web page to my friends here in Australia who were asking me what makes me a proud Indian!
I M PROUD TO B AN INDIAN. I told everyone here in newzealand why i m proud to be an indian and have pass on this page to my 30 other friends.
Mr. Prakash,
Please don’t count the quantitative achievements. These achievements will keep fluctuating and may not sustain for ever. Tell the world about the qualitative achievements of India will will sustanin for ever. Why we are proud to be an India:
1. Indians are critical thinker and technically highly educated human resources
2. Cultural values which have been imported by all most every country of the world.
3. Respect to elders, patience, and modest behavior
Thanks
amazingly good,
i live in india, still i know that i need to pass it on to various fellow indians as we need to be aware of it,
i m gonna pass it to the maximum indians possibles which will pass ot furrther , so that one day we all be aware of the proud facts.
i’ll be always proud in being an INDIAN
India is a great country.I am proud to be an Indian.I will thank god becoz he made me to born in India
im very proud, to be an indian!
Great, tell those racist bloody east europeans. What we have achieved. This is without much external help. Those illiterate , hungry and poor white bastards speak shit all the time, Poor, hungry, black indians.
i m prouud to be indian not becoz of i live in india but becoz i considered india as my motherland not merly a land
want 2see an india as developed country
Just some of the reasons are,
Almost thousand years of foreign rule hasn’t been able to change the culture despite the fact that they tried.
It is not prohibited to think and question.
Considering we got independence just half a century ago, I think we have come a long way and the hunger to go further seem insatiable.
We don’t mind taking what is good from other culturs.
And for the last, because my heart says so.
6. Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year.
I do not think that there is anything to be proud of in this statement.
27. There are 3.22 million Indians in the US.
I do not think that there is anything to be proud of in this statement. On second thoughts, I wonder who compiled this list. A chauvinistic teenager waiting for his US visa. A country should be proud of its achievements. Going abroad and prostituting your education is okay, but nothing to be proud of.
I guess I will make my own list
1. Despite the jokes about the lack of toilets in India, mohenjo daro had more civic infrastructure than to be seen for another 3000 year anywhere else in the world.
2. Zero, India’s contribution to the world of mathematics. It may not hit you, but it is the number you have to be creative to understand.
3. Efficiency of ISRO.
4. Functioning chaos that our political systems is, but it is still better than most others in the world.
5. What a treat it was to have Dr Manmohan Singh as PM and Dr. A. P. J. Kalam as the president. You will be hardpressed to find so well educated top politicians elsewhere.
6. Despite the history and attitude, still 130 million muslims live in rather peace in this country.
7. Despite very strong regional identities we all have a very strong belonging to the country. Witness a cricket match if your don’t believe. For even more real stuff go back 10 years to Kargil war.
8. Education is valued so very much and it can change your life. Cracking a decent entrance exam is your best and easiest ticket to good life. Unlike being a footballer or an Idol or something.
9. Although we are not in the league of developed nations, but we are not afraid of them. For examples watch WTO summit or the way India negotiated on the nuclear deal etc.
10. Google is not censored. There is no rotting corner of our system that we want to hide.
I really used to be proud of being Indian.
Our country used to be the fastest growing developing country in the world.
Our culture.
Our legislation.
Our history.
Our achievements.
But talk about present.
Is India really going to host Common Wealth games ??????
People got a chance to fill their pockets and they have already done so. So they don’t really bother if we really host the games. Has any body though how much embarresment would we have to face.
Kashmir issue is now in the guiness book of world’s record for longest going controversy with most casualties.
Marathi and bhaiya controversy.
All the MPs with the criminal records in UP and Bihar.
The literacy rate.
The killing of female baby in the Womb.
I really love the country and I am truly proud to be Indian but now our own system makes me feel sorry.
I have a 2 yr old kid and am worried about him, what future would he have if I don’t earn money to bribe schools.