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Old October 23, 2005, 03:48 AM
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The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla, is Indian.

The head of the team that developed the Pentium co-processor, Vinod Dham, is Indian.

The founder and creator of Hotmail, the world's best-known web-based email program, Sabeer Bhatia, is Indian.

The testing Director of Windows 2000, Sanjay Tejwrika, is Indian.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization)

The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population?

Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion?

Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C.E and 52 A.D respectively.

"The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination, larger than either Rome or Mecca, with an average of 30,000 visitors every day giving donations to the temple of $6 million (U.S.) daily?" biggest of all facts!

http://www.tourismofindia.com/fs/morefacts.htm:source