DESH PATRIKA: INDIAN NATIONAL SONG

Composed by Shri Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

"Vande maataraM sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM SasyashyaamalaaM maataram

Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale abalaa keno maa eto bale bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma tumi hR^idi tumi marma tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire
Baahute tumi maa shakti hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti tomaara i pratimaa gaDi mandire mandire

TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM

Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM

ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM "

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

GENERAL INFORMATION :
1. 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.

2. 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.

3. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.

4.According to the World Bank gross domestic product rankings ( 2004), India stands the tenth largest economy in the world with a GDP of $691.876 billion

5. India is predicted to become the second largest economy of the world by 2050,ahead of U.S. (as stated by Goldman Sachs in a research paper as 'BRIC report' in Economic Times).

6. India has got the second largest army (1,100,000) in the world.

7. India has the second largest population [i.e.1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)] in the world

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIA :
1.Chess was invented in India.

2.India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3.India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

4.India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization

5.Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

6.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. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.

7.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 106 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).

8.India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.

9.India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

10.India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.

QUOTES ABOUT INDIA :
1.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
2.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
3.India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA)
4."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!"
French Scholar Romaine Rolland
5."India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".
Will Durant, American historian

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