An Indian man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to India on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000.

The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for the loan, so the Indian man hands over the keys to a new Ferrari parked on the street in front of the bank. He produces the title and everything checks out. The loan officer agrees to accept the car as
collateral for the loan.

The bank's president and its officers all enjoy a good laugh at the Indian for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral against a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drives the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parks it there.

Two weeks later, the Indian returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.The loan officer says, 'Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely,but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are a multi millionaire. What puzzles us is, why would
you bother to borrow '$5,000'.

The Indian replies: 'Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks for only $15.41 and expect it to be there when I return'.

Ah, the mind of the Indian...

This is why India is shining...!! !

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge.

"We'd like to see the president," the man said softly.

"He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped.

"We'll wait," the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn't, and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.

"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave," she said to him!

He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern faced and with dignity, strutted toward the couple. The lady told him, "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year ."

He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial o him, somewhere on campus."

The president wasn't touched. He was shocked.

"Madam," he said, gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died.. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."

"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly. "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard." The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard."

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.

The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?"

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.

Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

Moral : You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them. Let's make sure we are not one amongst them and...

India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence               
without using violence.

1.   The greatest games of all, CHESS and PLAYING CARDS originated from
India.

2.   The Art of Meditation and Yoga originated from India
   .
3.   Martial Arts (karate and Judo) originated from India, not China.

4.   The World's first University was established in Takshila, India, in
700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than
60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one
of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

5.   India has never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of
history.

6.   Everything which was either discovered or invented by the Hindus in
India was cleverly denied authenticity and downplayed by those who came to
rule India, the Arabs and the British.

7.   Sanskrit, the oldest language in the World, originated from India.
8.   The ancient Indian astronomers had tabulated the movement and
positions of the sun, planets and the stars in space, long before Isaac
Newton came up with the theory of gravity after the apple had fallen on his
head.

9.   USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the
world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was
Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi
   .
10.   Cleverly termed by the west as Arabic numerals simply because the
Arabs brought the knowledge of India to the West after invading India.
Hindsaa (numerals) in Arabic means from India.

11.   India was the most peaceful country on earth before the Arab invasion
in the 8th Century.

12.   The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The
very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word
navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.

13.   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.

14.   Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka,
the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda
is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization
   .
15.   Budhayana first calculated the value of "pi", and he explained the
concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in
the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.

16.   Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health
scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans,
cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic
surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient
India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy,
physiology, etiology, mbryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and
immunity is also found in many texts.

17.   India is the largest Democracy in the World.