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                                        India’s Greatness

According to me, it is the ability to allow its citizens to be what they are. Indiahouses one of the most diverse populations on this planet, allowing them to live the way they want to live.

Take religion, for example. There is no other country on this planet which houses so many different religions in such huge proportions. India is, at the same time, #1 home to World’s 3^rd largest religion (Hinduism), #2 home to World’s 2^nd largest religion (Islam), #1 home to World’s two other major religions (Sikhism and Jainism).

                       Most western nations that tout their secular principles fail to uphold their test of tolerance when compared with India. Most of these nations ask for conformity from its minorities. Their do not allow you to express yourself ‘freely’. For example, Irelandforbids Sikhs from wearing turban in its Army. England disallows Muslim women from wearing veil in its schools. France disallows Muslim kids from wearing scarves at schools. All this is done to achieve what they call ‘integration’.

                             According to these nations, conformance to habits or customs of the majority is considered integration.On the other hand, India has a Sikh regiment where Sikhs proudly wear their turbans in the Army, it allows its Muslim woman doctors to wear a veil, and it allows its Muslim girls to wear scarves in schools. In India, there is no need to conform to the customs or habits of majority (with some exceptions of late). India’s unity and integration comes from allowing and preserving its diversity, which seems to be alien to most Western secular and democratic nations.

In languages, India is #1 home to six of the top 20 languages of the world and also has a huge population that speak English. [The same applies to India’s diverse cultures, customs, traditions, food habits and dress habits].

There is no other country on this planet where such diverse populations are living together. India is so unique in this respect that no other nation comes close to India.Come to think of it, India completely defies every rule on how a nation-state should be formed. Its people do not have anything in common ‘universally’ to make it a nation-state. No common religion, no common language, no common ethnicity, no common history, and no common ideology. Its people are all different from another in every way imaginable. The only thing that binds them together to make this a nation is that they all want to be part of India to live together (with some exceptions).

So, what makes one an Indian? It’s his wish to be part of India, nothing more, nothing less!

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Pissing on the roadside. Salivating if they see a white skinned girl.      Not respecting others’ privacy.    Asking for lakhs of rupees and gold and what not in dowry.  Burning wives if they cannot bring the aforementioned.   Pre-birth determination of gender of the unborn baby. Not respecting traffic laws. Shoving each other in the queue in front of railway ticket counter.    Not paying sales tax. Wasting money in making temples on every road crossing.  Beating up innocent people in the police custody in the name of law and order.  Burning churches and bringing down mosques in the name of religion. Raping nuns. Committing riots.  30% of ur people live below poverty line & 40% people in your country are illiterate.  In South India prostitution is still rampant in the form of Devdasi.  People still go to witch doctor instead of psychiatrist if their dear ones’ are affected by Epilepsy.  Hartals plaguing normal life every now and then.

dhirubhai-Indian Paradise

Dhirubhai Ambani was the most enterprising Indian entrepreneur. His life journey is reminiscent of the rags to riches story. He is remembered as the one who rewrote Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. 
                                        
Dhirubhai Ambani alias Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was born on December 28, 1932, at Chorwad, Gujarat, into a Modh family. His father was a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by selling "bhajias" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends.

After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as a clerk in an oil company. He returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile trading company.

Assisted by his two sons, Mukesh and Anil, Dhiru Bhai Ambani built India's largest private sector company, Reliance India Limited, from a scratch. Over time his business has diversified into a core specialisation in petrochemicals with additional interests in telecommunications, information technology, energy, power, retail, textiles, infrastructure services, capital markets, and logistics.

Dhirubhai Ambani is credited with shaping India's equity culture, attracting millions of retail investors in a market till then dominated by financial institutions. Dhirubhai revolutionised capital markets. From nothing, he generated billions of rupees in wealth for those who put their trust in his companies. His efforts helped create an 'equity cult' in the Indian capital market. With innovative instruments like the convertible debenture, Reliance quickly became a favorite of the stock market in the 1980s.

In 1992, Reliance became the first Indian company to raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in international markets limited only by India's sovereign rating. Reliance also became the first Indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list.

Dhirubhai Ambani was named the Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). A poll conducted by The Times of India in 2000 voted him "greatest creator of wealth in the century".

Taj-Indian Paradise

The Taj Mahal is the epitome of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet there have been few serious studies of it and no full analysis of its architecture and meaning. Ebba Koch, an important scholar,  has been permitted to take measurements of the complex and has been working on the palaces and gardens of Shah Jahan for thirty years and on the Taj Mahal itself—the tomb of the emperor's wife, Mumtaz Mahal—for a decade.

                                

                                                 The tomb is the representation of the house of the queen in Paradise, and  its setting was based on the palace gardens of the great nobles that lined both sides of the river at Agra India.  You will explore the entire complex of the Taj Mahal with an explanation of each building and an account of the mausoleum's urban setting, its design and construction, its symbolic meaning, and its history up to the present day.

                                                 Taj mahal was built in 22 years (1631-1653) with the orders of Shah Jahan and it was dedicated to Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Bano Begum), the wife of Shah. 20.000 workers labored and 32 crore rupees were spent during the construction of the monument and it was built according to Islamic architecture 

infosys:Indian Paradise

Infosys was founded in 1981 by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora. It moved to Bangalore in 1983 and got its first foreign client, Data Basics Corporation from the US, in 1987. In 1992 it opened its first overseas sales office in Boston, US. This was followed by offices in Milton Keynes (1996), Toronto (1997), France and Hong Kong (2000), UAE and Argentina (2001), Netherlands, Singapore and Sweden (2002) and the list goes on until the present day at which point it has 64 offices and 68 development centres in India and abroad.

                          

                                 Infosys has revenues of US$ 6.825 billion (LTM Q3-FY12).Infosys delivers IT-enabled business solutions to enable Global 2000 companies to build their enterprises of tomorrow. Infosys ranked among the most innovative companies in a Forbes survey, leading technology companies in a report by The Boston Consulting Group  and top ten green companies in Newsweek's Green Rankings. Infosys was voted India's most admired company in The Wall Street Journal Asia 200  every year since 2000. The corporate governance practices were recognized by The Asset Platinum award  and the IR Global Rankings.

                                          In 2001, it was rated by Business Today. Infosys was rated best employer to work for in 2000, 2001, and 2002 by Hewitt Associates. In 2007, Infosys received over 1.3 million applications and hired fewer than 3% of applicants.

                                Infosys won the Global MAKE (Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises) award for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005, and is inducted into the Global Hall of Fame for the same.

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                                RECORDS

ODI

1. Matches Played: 442 ( Most )
2. Consecutive ODI Appearances: 185
3. Most Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds
4. Inning appearances: 431 ( Most ). First to appear in 400 innings in ODI matches.

                                 

                  

Sachin Tendulkar Most runs in an ODI Innings

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record most runs scored in one ODI innings. He is the one and only batsman to score 200 runs (147ball 25x4 3x6) in an ODI against South Africa

Runs scored:

1. Sachin crossed 18,00 Runs on March 24 world cup quarter final against Australia. Right now Sachin is the leading highest runs scorer in curent world cup 2011. He scored 371 runs from 7 innings so far. He is the leading run getter in the ODI and he is one and the only one player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.
2. Sachin Tendulkar First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and 17,000, 18,000 ODI runs.
3. Sachin Tendulkar has the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year.
4. He has done it seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007
5. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
6. Tendulkar is the only batsman to score over 3000 runs against any opponent (Australia). Tendulkar is also the only batsman to achieve the feat runs against two opponents - Sri Lanka is the other team.
7. After Sachin crossed the 10,000-run mark in ODIs, only seven other players have managed to cross the milestone: (Sanath Jayasuriya, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Inzamam ul Haq, and Jacques Kallis).
8. Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
9. Tendulkar holds the record for the highest individual score in a one day international when he scored 200 not out breaking the previous record of 194 in the India vs South Africa ODI on 24 February 2010.
10. Tendulkar holds the record for the most fours ( boundaries ) in an innings. He hit 25 fours in the innings against South Africa on on 24 February 2010 when he scored double century.
11. Only player to score 5, 150+ (186*, 152, 163*, 175 and 200*)scores in ODI cricket, followed by Sanath Jayasuriya of Srilanka with 4, 150+ scores in ODI

Centuries and Fifties record:

1. Most centuries: 48
2. Only cricketer to ever score a double hundred in the ODI format - against South Africa at Gwalior, India.
3. Most centuries against an opponent - 9 vs. Australia.
4. Most centuries vs. Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
5. Most centuries in Final Matches 6 & India Win All Matches
6. Most centuries against One Team - Australia 20 (11 test+9 ODI)
7. Most Fifties: 95.
8. Highest number of above fifty scores in ODIs - 141 (48 Centuries and 93 Fifties).
9. Most Fifties in World Cup Matches (21)

ODI awards:

1. Most Man of the Match Awards: 62 Man of the Match Awards
2. Most Man of the Series Awards: 15 Man of the Series Awards
    

• Calendar Year record:

1. Most ODI runs in a calendar year: 1,894 ODI runs in 1998.
2. Most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998
    

Sachin Tendulkar Partnership Records in Cricket history

1. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly put the world record for the most runs scored in the opening partnership. They have scored together 6,609 runs from 136 matches with 21 century partnerships and 23 fifty run partnerships.
2. Most century partnerships for opening pair in the cricket history- Ganguly and Sachin put together 20 century partnerships as opening pair.
3. The world record for most runs of partnership in ODI matches- Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid scored together 331 runs against New Zealand in 1999 at the LBS, Hyderabad.
4. Sachin Tendulkar has been involved in six 200 run partnerships in ODI matches - a record that he shares with Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.
5. Most runs (2120 at an average of above 60 as on 12 March 2011) in World Cup Cricket History including 6 centuries & 13 fifties and his best score of 152* against Namibia in 2003 world cup
6. 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
7. Sachin Tendulkar Player Of The World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Sachin Tendulkar World Cup Records

1. Most Runs. (2120 Runs)
2. Most Fifties. (13 Fifties)
3. Most Hundreds. (6 Hundreds)
4. Most runs in a series. (673 runs in 2003 World Cup)
5. Highest Partnership runs for 3rd wicket. (237 Runs with Rahul Dravid). Game Appearances:

Test

1. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches (182).
2. On his Test debut, Sachin Tendulkar was the third youngest debutant (16y 205d). Mushtaq Mohammad (15y 124d) and Aaqib Javed (16y 189d) debuted in Test matches younger to Tendulkar. Since then, there have been 2 players who were younger than Sachin on their Test Cricket debut: Hasan Raza - Pakistan (14y 227d), the current youngest debutant, and Mohammad Sharif - Bangladesh (15y 128d).

Runs Scored:

1. Highest run scorer in the history of Test cricket with 15048 Test runs.
2. Career Average (1989–2011, 182 Tests, 15,048 runs) at 56.14
3. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara. Lara took 213 innings, Sachin 223 and Border 259.
4. Second Indian after Sunil Gavaskar to make over 10,000 runs in Test matches.
5. Tendulkar and Brian Lara are the fastest to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket history. Both of them achieved this in 195 innings.
6. Sachin Tendulkar (8145) world record of runs scored in Tests away from home.
7. Sachin Tendulkar (29) world record of Centuries in Tests away from home.
8. First player to reach 12,000-13,000-14,000,15000 Test runs.
9. Holds the record for scoring most 1,000 Test runs in a calendar year. He has done it Six times - 2010 (1600), 2008 (1063), 2002 (1392 runs), 1999 (1088 runs), 2001 (1003 runs) and 1997 (1000 runs).
10. Sachin Tendulkar is the fourth highest run-getter in a single calendar year in Test History. He has scored 1562 runs in 2010 and is behind Mohammad Yousuf (1780 runs in 2006), Viv Richards (1710 runs in 1976) and Graeme Smith (1656 runs in 2008).
11. Sachin Tendulkar created yet another record on 8th November 2011 when he became the first cricketer to score 15,000 runs in Test cricket, during the opening Test match against the West Indies at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.
12. Sachin Tendulkar created a world record"Sachin Tendulkar sets one more world record for aggregating most runs in Tests". Cricket Country. Retrieved 11 November 2011. for aggregating most runs in the fourth innings in Tests, going past Rahul Dravid's tally of 1507 runs during India's second innings of the first Test against West Indies.

Centuries:
 

1. Highest number of Test centuries(51), overtaking Sunil Gavaskar's record (34). On October 10, 2010 in Bengaluru (Bangalore) against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar trophy's second and final test match Sachin Tendulkar reached a milestone. With a single to third man, Tendulkar reached his 6th double century and his 49th test century.
2. Highest number of 150+ score in Test Cricket (20)
3. When Tendulkar scored his maiden century in 1990, he was the second youngest to score a century. Only Mushtaq Mohammad had scored a century at a younger age by 1990. Tendulkar's record was bettered by Mohammad Ashraful in 2001/02 season. The record for previous youngest Indian centurion was held by Kapil Dev.
4. Tendulkar's record of five centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.
5. Tendulkar holds the current record (217 against NZ in 1999/00 Season) for the highest score in Test cricket by an Indian when captaining the side. Gavaskar held the previous record (205 against West Indies in Bombay - 1978/79 season)
6. Tendulkar has scored centuries against all Test playing nations. He was the third batman to achieve the distinction after Steve Waugh and Gary Kirsten. The current list also includes Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist and Marvan Atapattu.
7. Tendulkar's 37th century against Bangladesh during the 2nd Test , made history as the 1st time the top four batsmen of any team had all scored centuries in a single innings. Dinesh Karthik (129), Wasim Jaffer (138) and Rahul Dravid (129) were the other centurions in the innings.
    

Combined (ODI & Test & T20I) records

1. First batsman in history to score over 90 centuries in international cricket. He now has 99 Centuries(51 in Tests and 48 in ODIs), which is still the record for the highest number of centuries in international cricket.
2. Tendulkar's 33,207 runs in international cricket include 18,111 runs in ODI's, 15,086 Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.