Facts that make every Indian Proud

Although,I have copied this from somewhere else, still I would like to share this with you all....

Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta
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 is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
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

Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
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.



India never invaded any country in her last 1000 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 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.

According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
Chess was invented in India .

Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones.

Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .

When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).

The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

October 17, 2008 Sun will rise for 1.5 days(36 hours)

wooh… what an exciting news!!!

today, when i was working on internet, i received a mail from my friend saying,

“Coming October 17, 2008 the sun will rise continuously for 36 hrs (1.5 days). During this time the American countries will be dark for 1.5 days.

It will convert 3 days into 2 big days. It will happen once in 2400 yrs.
We’re very lucky to see this. Forward it to all friends.”

What the hell are you talking about?? Is it possible?? How?? (this was my first reaction to the mail)

I did not believe the mail. I googled and shocked to find that everyone here is talking about this news. But, I noticed one thing everywhere the text of the topic is same. I suspected whether it is a true information or someone’s imagination.

Its difficult, still i believe that above mail is true but,

If i conclude it scientifically then days and nights are due to the rotation of earth on its own axis. The speed at which earth is rotating is constant due to which our ancestors concluded 24 hours a day, 7days a week, 30days a month and 365days a year. The whole human life is dependent only on this standard calculation of earth’s speed of rotation and revolution.

Now, this can only happen if the earth stops rotating on its own axis at a point where asian countries are facing towards sun. Is it possible?? Can anyone give me one logical reason why earth will stop rotating?? Please dont say “CONSEQUENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING” as these days if rain falls more than it should be, summers become warmer then it must be, winters become colder then usually it does, people simply says “CONSEQUENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING”. sounds funny…

I guess no.. No one has any logic behind it.. so how can we guys believe that this will happen on october 17, 2008.

You know, if may be it will happen then this can lead to the end of human existance which i guess in the near future is not possible.

Above all the world’s leading aeronautics organisation NASA has no information regarding this big news. WOW NASA, you are so busy in keeping an eye on universe that you forgot whats happening on earth. hehehe….

Well guys, i feel that we should wait n watch what will happen on october 17, 2008. If the information will be true then we must honor the person who has spread this information by giving him/her a good position at NASA. If it is not then start searching for that person…..

Good bye!! see you guys on october 17, 2008.[;)]

We may run out of web addresses in 2 years

Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet”, has warned that the world is on the verge of running out of the web addresses that allow computers to identify and communicate with each other. 

Cerf, one of the world’s leading computer scientists, has asserted that there’s and immediate need for businesses and consumers to switch to the next generation of net addresses. 

Every computer and online device is assigned a unique IP address, but according to estimates, the pool of unallocated numbers will soon run dry. IP addresses are as crucial to websites as street addresses are for businesses but some network engineers predict that we will run out of them in two years. 

However, Cerf has said that it’s high time that preparations are made now, otherwise some computers might not be able to go online and the connectivity of the internet might be damaged. 

He also said that particularly internet service providers are needed to get ready for the situation and that time was running out for a smooth transition. “This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can’t have more subscribers,” Times Online quoted him, as saying. 

Cerf and hid colleagues devised the internet system in 1977, and he set in place “internet protocol version four” (IPv4) which provided 4.2 billion addresses. Each IPv4 address is a series of 32 binary digits. However, with the boost in the number of internet-enabled devices , especially mobile phones, less than 14% of those addresses remain vacant. 

According to current figures, the existing IPv4 address will run out in 2010 and possibly as early as next year. But, scientists have already kept aside a new system, called IPv6, which has been ready for implementation for more than a decade. 

Under IPv6, each address has 128 bits and so provides 340 trillion, trillion, trillion different addresses — that is 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000. And it is believed that this will meet humanity’s needs for decades to come. 

Both the protocol systems will run simultaneously and IPv4 addresses will still work as normal. But if the IPv6 is not widely adopted, then those using it may find themselves unable to connect across the whole internet. 

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has warned that shifting to the new addressing scheme was “critical for the future of the internet economy” and was likely to affect “all businesses that require IP addresses for their growth”. 

Cerf said consumers needed to be aware of IPv6 and to start checking that the products they buy are IPv6 compatible . Most software companies and many hardware companies are already making their products IPv6 ready. 

It is thought that, properly handled, the effect of the introduction of IPv6 on consumers will be minimal, although eventually home routers may have to be upgraded or swapped so they can use the longer addresses. In Asia, governments in China, Korea and Japan have led the roll out of the new protocol.

The Output....

I got inspired to write this post when, after reading a company's recruiting policy, I realised a few facts about having a job.
What bugged me the most was the fact that companies "look for results rather than dedication". They expect you to have achieved everything: good grades, positions of responsibilities won through elections, awards, scholarships.............
I'd like to ask this: Does producing results or winning guarantee a better employee? Is it not common knowledge what strange, twisted measures people use to win awards, or to win elections?
So is it necessary that a person who produces results is a dedicated person who will show the same amount of dedication while working for someone? Is it not equally possible that the person will again use unfair measures for his own benefit, to ascend the corporate ladder, while not contributing anything?
The problem lies within the fact that it's really tough for any person to know that a person is capable without asking about results. How can you judge that a person will benefit your venture without knowing what he has achieved in life? but as I have said, this system has its flaws. If a person is dedicated to something, but if he couldn't achieve results in that field, does that make the person incapable? I say no. There are various factors involved in a person's achievement: inspiration, proper guidance, proper background, downright trickery. If a person does not have these, does that mean that he couldn't achieve? Look at Einstein, for example. Just because he couldn't get good grades at school he was labeled a loser and an underperformer. But that did not matter to Einstein. He went ahead, dedicated in his interests, and achieved something so extraordinary, that no one could match till even now. Bill Gates, dropped from college at an early age to pursue a career in computers. His family and friends criticised him for this.
In any society, there will always be underdogs. They will look as if they are good for nothing, but its the contrary that gets revealed, soon. This primarily due to the fact that it is not necessary that a hardworking person will produce good results. But it is true that his hard work will bear fruit someday. They just have to wait for it.
There is a huge need for a criteria to evaluate a person's capabilities, other than just results. People who produce results somehow adapt to the system and are thus able to perform better, with lesser effort.It is really demoralising for a person to not achieve anything despite of his efforts. This would, in turn make him work less harder the next time, because he will expect less. This chain goes on. But there are some who hold on, who keep working despite failures. These are the people who can truly change the world.

DO WE REALLY WANNA BECOME ENGINEERS???

On weekends away from the daily curricula something upsets me. That something is the question "Do we really want to become engineers?". There are only a few people around (at least what I know) who know what are they are doing with their lives and for the rest of us branded as budding engineers are we not just following the trend.

We all study hard in school at plus two level and to try get into a college of repute. This the general trend that is being followed. I think nowadays it is not your ambition that drives you it is the world around you that shapes your career .I still remember when I first entered class 11 I had no clue about my future . But then what happened I saw some enthusiast around me gearing up for entrance test preparations. Probably they were motivated by their parents. What do I do then ,I can't go against the trend so I also take up engineering as my goal ,God knows why. So I am here with 500 odds other students who probably did the same thing as me and figuring what our future holds for us now.

This is what life is governed by other forces around you . If anyone says that he has a mind of his own , doesn't care what others think about him and has his own way of doing things I would give you a liar.

But my question still remains unanswered are we all doing justice to our lives by pursuing engineering as our profession. Does anybody around me for that matter my seniors has the guts to stand up say that what he has chosen for his life is right for him. An intelligent student must take up engineering or medicine as his career. Is it that simple, probably not . This fact proves it that we are all so governed by the social laws. For that matter what is intelligence is it the art of mugging up and vomiting in the exams. Or is it the art of doing the important portions (as suggested by the teacher ) and cheating the rest in the exams. In my book anybody can be intelligent a last seater can be more intelligent than a topper because he has a mind of his own .Securing marks is not a intelligence quotient. Even Bill Gates was a college dropout . By this I don't to say that all of us should stop studying and we all would become Bill Gates .

Coming back to my point that one should spend some time in search of what is right for him. Agreed that this search is time consuming but we can all give it a try. Here lies one of the greatest disadvantages of the modern world that it has robbed all time out of your life.

So to some it up all I want to say is that all you people out there playing games , sleeping at hostel ,going out with girlfriend, or trying to make them ,attending classes ,all you back benchers sleeping in the class or disturbing the teachers is to take a deep breath and think is this what am I supposed to do in life am ,I doing justice to my life or am I just following the trend .

Google Chrome coming to Android

he new web browser, Google Chrome, launched recently and while it is initially intended for your PC, expect to see it on Android in the near future. Google co-founder, Sergey Brin revealed a few interesting tidbits about the Chrome/Android connection yesterday during the browser’s launch event.

As both Android and Chrome near their 1.0 releases, it is expected the two will begin to work together, even though they were developed mostly on separate terms. “Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” said Brin and cited JavaScript improvements as an example.

And “Chrome-like” is an example of what the mobile version of Chrome would be called in order to indicate both its relation to the full blown PC version and its mobile status. The age of complete mobile browsing is upon us!

Chrome Baby!

One word says it all this week, Chrome! Will September 2, 2008 go down in history as the day Google launched not just a mere web browser but a new operating system? Aniket thinks so. He foresees Google's Chrome as a complete departure from we have used and something that will one day come pre-installed on small computers, etc.

My country is up for sale!! Anyone interested..?

As I watched today in total shock and horror the events unfolding at 5 min past 4, it has left me with in total shock. The Indian democracy will fall to such depth was inconceivable for me. Whatever I used to hear till now used to come under the ambit of the compulsions of coalition politics, but today MPs showing bundles of notes in the parliament itself, has not only shaken but destroyed the very foundations on which it was built. In a country in which I am sure 40% of its people haven't even seen a 1000 Rs note, MPs were flashing thousands of those notes that too in a place which considered a temple, a temple of democracy. 

I don't know what actually happened behind the scenes, as to whether the money was offered or the whole episode has been staged, but one thing is certain, it should not have been exposed in a manner in which it has been. Who is this stupid trio of MPs and what right have they got to malign the image of the entire country in front of the world. They have ensured that from now on for a long time we will feel ashamed of calling ourselves Indians, a country in which you buy your way to power and call it democracy. Those MPs could have called a press conference and showed the money there. I am sure many news channels would have gladly covered this story. Then why did they have to do this in the parliament, that too when they have no concrete proof, its jus their word and the money. 

At a time when we are trying to project a certain image of our country, at a time when we are debating on a deal which is being envied by many countries, its very sad that such an episode be staged in our parliament. We talk of catching up with China. China executes corrupt people, we glorify them, bring them to power. 

The Indian political system is basically flawed. Its obvious that multi party democracy is not working. It has resulted in large scale corruption, open and blatant corruption, a grave disregard for decency and integrity, criminalization of politics and ultimately this. The Speaker himself said today afternoon in Lok Sabha that Indian democracy has reached its nadir, well I guess he didn't foresee what was going to happen later.

I don't know what will be the outcome of this entire episode, but one thing is sure, it has sent a strong message to all the people in the world, My country is up for Sale, its just waiting for the right buyer, Anyone interested..?

I Support But...

India in 1947 was divided into India and Pakistan on the basis of communities and today again India has divided into General OBC and SC/ST's again on the basis of communities. When we talk about secular India what does we exactly mean? Does it mean that everybody will be treated equally or it means giving reservations and dividing the new generation of students into different castes? 

When India is on the verge of becoming a superpower with the best brains in the world, we should not divide the students rather try to build a foundation for casteless India.

I support reservation if it is genuinely for the people those who are backward and not of some particular caste. How can we define that some particular castes are really backward? Government should be clear that reservation is for castes or for backward class. 

In fact there are people who are economically even in the General category, don't they require reservation? What about them? 

In my opinion reservation for students is good thing but provided it should for student those who cannot afford higher education and not for those who are of some particular caste.

The Government should do something at the grass root level like providing scholarships and increasing the number of seats and colleges rather than implementing reservations for castes. 

However one thing I like about this verdict is that the government has not included the creamy layer in the reservations.