You know India is a land of rich culture and ancient history, with many groundbreaking discoveries and inventions that have shaped the modern world.

The first discovery is the Hindu numeral system. Not many realize that the numeral system we use today came from India.

Our next discovery is carburized steel. India is one of the pioneers in metallurgy and had been producing top-quality steel way back, 2,000 years before Michael Faraday demystified the real process.

India’s influence on Western philosophy is our third discovery. Many historians talk about the influence of India on the ancient Greeks and Romans.

The use of cotton textiles for clothing is a revolutionary Indian contribution to the world. Back in the day, the Greeks were still wearing animal skin, until they found the cotton industry in India, when Alexander the Great was conquering the world.

Our fifth discovery is democracy. Historians know about the ancient Indian Republic of Vaishali, which dates back to 600 BCE, almost a hundred years before the institution of Athenian democracy.

Indian scientists have also made significant contributions to the world, from C. V. Raman’s discovery of the Raman effect to Srinivasa Ramanujan’s contribution to mathematics.