Indian Tour Operators Promotion Council
A Toast To the Wonderland - India
"If there is one place on the face of the earth
where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earlier
days when man began the dream of existence, it is India".
- India is the world's oldest, largest and continuous civilisation.
- India's democracy is the largest in the world.
- Varanasi, also known as Banaras is the oldest and continuously
inhabited city in the world today.
- India is a country which never invaded any country in her last 10000
years of history.
- Grammar is one of the greatest contributions of India to the Western
world. Panini, the Sanskrit grammarian, who lived between 750 and 500
BC, was the first to compose formal grammar through his Astadhyai.
- The credit of inventing the number system goes to India. Zero was
introduced by Aryabhatta.
- The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 B.C.
- The magic of Ayurveda , which has become a heart and soul for many,
also attained significance in India.
- 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.
- The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years
ago. The very word navigation has been derived from the Sanskrit word
Navgatih.
- 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.
- Chess (Shataranja or Ashta Pada) was invented in India.
- Shushruta, said to be the father of surgery was also an Indian.
- The place value system and the decimal system was developed in India
in 100 B.C.
- Vinod Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems is also an Indian.
- The head of the team that developed the Pentium co -processor, Vinod
Dham is Indian.
- The founder and creator of Hot mail the world's best-known web-based
email program, Sabeer Bhatia, is Indian.
- Jaipur in India has the largest stone-built observatory in the world.
- Martial Arts were first created in India and was later spread to Asia
by Buddhist missionaries.
- Yoga has its origin in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
- Jaisalmer Fort is the world's only living fort.
- The movie industry of Mumbai is the biggest in the world.
- Rishikesh in Uttaranchal is the place in India where the careers of
the famous pop group Beatles reached to the zenith as they wrote about
forty - eight songs.
- Ahmedabad owns one of the world's finest textile museums - the Calico
Museum of Textiles.
- Gulmarg has the highest green golf course in the world.
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