FACTS

India Facts

Indian railways employ over 1.5 million people, the largest by a single organization in India or anywhere in the world.
India has most number of post offices in the world.
India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th century.
Vishakapatnam is the only natural harbour in India’s East coast.
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
The Indian epic poem Mahabharatha is eight times longer than the Iliad and The Odessey combined.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
The Mahabharata is the first written document in the world to throrize the concept of cloning, test tube babies and surrogate mothers.
Phycist Robert Oppenheimer credits the discovery of atom bomb to 'Bhagavad Geeta".
Navagraha idols at temples indicate that our ancestors had knowledge of nine planets in our solar system before the discovery by modern science.
The Lord Muruga's idon in Palani is made from Navapashanam (9 poisons) by Siddhar Bogar is said to cure all medical ailments.
Swami Vivekananda credits his extra ordinary memory power to perfect vow of Brahmacharya.
The flying machines of ancient India called Vimanas operated out of Mercury Vortex Engines
The holiest number of Hindus is 108, which indicates the ratio of sun's distance (from earth)/sun's diameter or moon's distance(from earth)/moon's diameter. Thus, most of our prayer beads have 108 beads.
The Vedas was preserved for more than 5000 yearsby reciting and memorizing allthe hymns through Guru-Shishya tradition without the help of printing technology.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is named after Vimana, an ancient flying machines.
Rama Setu was passable on foot up to 15th century until storms deepened the channelin 1480 A.D
The Mahabharat is 10 times larger than the Greek epics, The Iliad and the Odyssey combined together.
Hinduism was the major religion of the world during Satya, Treta and Dvapara Yugas.
Rigveda is the oldest literature known to mankind.
The Tamil sage 'Thiruvalluvar' who has written 'Thirukural' has been honoured as one of the top 10 sages of the world by MDIS, Singapore.
Brahmastra can be compared to a modern day nuclear missile.
Saree dates its origin to Indus Valley Civilization(2000 BC)