The India brand - feel proud to be an Indian

*The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE.

*Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians.

*With 800 movies per year , India ’s film industry overshadows Hollywood .

*The organized lottery market in India is US$7bn (2% of GDP)

*India consumes a fifth of the world’s gold output.

*Indians account for 45% of H1-B visas issued by the US every year

*Growing at 6%, in 25 years Indian GDP(on a PPP basis) will be at the same level the
US is at today

*Six Indian ladies have won Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.

*Bank deposits in India roughly equal 50% of its GDP C again, among the highest in the world.

*Indian Railways is the largest railway network in the world under single management

*India has the third largest army in the world, nearly 1.5 million strong.

*India is the largest producer and consumer of tea in the world, accounting for more than
30% of global production and 25% of consumption.

*India is the world’s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every
10 stones sold in the world pass through India .

*India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with USFDA.

*India is home to the largest number of pharmaceutical plants (61) approved by USFDA
outside the US .

*India’s Hero Honda is the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer, with 2002 production
of 1.7m units.

*Other than US and Japan , India is the only country to have built a super computer indigenously.

*Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world, with a staff of 1.6 million people.

*India is the second largest cement producing country in the world, producing more than
110 m tones.

*Of the fortune 500 companies, 220 outsource their software-related work to India .

*There are 8,500 Indian restaurants in the U.K.15% of the country’s total dining-out
establishments.

*India is the largest democracy in the world, with nearly 400m voting in the last national
elections.

*India has the second-largest pool of scientists and engineers in the world.

*India has the third largest investor base in the world.

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

*The Kumbh Mela festival, held every 21 years in the city of Allahabad , attracts 25 million
people CE more than the population of 185 of the 227 countries in the world.

*The Indian city of Varanasi , also known as Benares , is the oldest continuously inhabited
city in the world today.

*There are 3.22 million Indians in the US .

*Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US , with nearly 200,000 millionaries.

*India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.

*There are over 70,000 bank branches in India – among the highest in the world.

Thanks 4 sharing Pinkz! A lot of facts and numbers; very thought provoking too, some of them.

I'll have another look-in, but only after Nature has been here.

Noorie

Translation of postNo 1: Your country is more or less foreign owned but dont let that stand in the way of progress.

I kind of agree with that.

Yet, India is a functioning democracy; that's sumthing 2 be proud of !

For the rest, the tide may turn any day.

Noorie

Still believe in Father Christmas? Hate to break it to ya but there is no such thing!

More than ever.



You are a realist, and I am not.

I might be wrong, but I still wud like to be allowed to make my own mistakes.

Noorie

Thatz like saying "I am a cartoon plz dont take me seriously", is that wot you are saying?

I suppose it's true then, that "nothing is so simple that it can't be misunderstood".

Truce?

Noorie

That does Not make us necessarily foreign owned.......we have been fighting against that .......... the only prominent foreign connection is Sonia Gandhi.....but she has had to change her image and look indian,talk indian and think indian to remain here and in that position...........

Will we seal with a kiss?

No! Not even if my life depended on it.

Noorie

I must insist that at the very minimum I get a hug.

That isn't negotiation. It's haggling! And I've never been very good at it.

Noorie

^^ A hug it is then Aa lag ja gale, ke shahid phir mulakat ho na ho.

I never negotiate. I never had to.

Noorie

Lucky 4 us both that is isnt a negotiation... you said so yourself.

This is getting boring now am gonna jet, got this little thing going on with Marcilo at sum other place. *Kiss, kiss, hug , hug.*

It is.

Noorie

Interesting. Thanks pinky.

Most welcome bc