[nukkad] Interesting read

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Hi Ravibhai,

An interesting read indeed.

Rajababu

--- Ravi Menon  wrote:

> The Indian chromosome By Dr Farrukh Saleem (Of 
> Pakistan)
> The News, December 09, 2007
>
http://watandost.blogspot.com/2007/12/difference-between-india-and-pakistan.html
> 
> Twenty-five thousand years ago, haplogroup R2
> characterized by genetic
> marker M124 arose in southern Central Asia. Then
> began a major wave of
> human migration whereby members migrated southward
> to present-day
> India and Pakistan (Genographic Project by the
> National Geographic
> Society; http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ).
> Indians and Pakistanis
> have the same ancestry and share the same DNA
> sequence. Here's what is
> happening in India:
> 
> The two Ambani brothers can buy 100 percent of every
> company listed on
> the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) and would still be
> left with $30
> billion to spare. The four richest Indians can buy
> up all goods and
> services produced over a year by 169 million
> Pakistanis and still be
> left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest
> Indians are now
> richer than the forty richest Chinese.
> 
> In November, Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark
> Sensex flirted with
> 20,000 points. As a consequence, Mukesh Ambani's
> Reliance Industries
> became a $100 billion company (the entire KSE is
> capitalized at $65
> billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of Reliance.
> 
> In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned
> forty-four three
> weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her
> birthday present:
> A sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted
> master bedroom,
> bathroom with mood lighting, a sky bar,
> entertainment cabins,
> satellite television, wireless communication and a
> separate cabin with
> game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's wife, and
> Mukesh is not
> India's richest but the second richest.
> 
> Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence
> Antillia (after a
> mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic
> Ocean). At a cost
> of $1 billion this would be the most expensive home
> on the face of the
> planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family
> residence, for a family
> of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed
> building. The first
> six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh
> floor is for car
> servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a
> mini-theatre.
> Then there's a health club, a gym and a swimming
> pool. Two floors are
> reserved for Ambani family's guests. Four floors
> above the guest
> floors are family floors all with a superb view of
> the Arabian Sea. On
> top of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600
> is expected to
> care for the family and their family home.
> 
> In 2004, India became the 3rd most attractive
> foreign direct
> investment destination. Pakistan wasn't even in the
> top 25 countries.
> In 2004, the United Nations, the representative body
> of 192 sovereign
> member states, had requested the Election Commission
> of India to
> assist the UN in the holding of elections in Al
> Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah
> and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election
> Commission of
> India and not the Election Commission of Pakistan?
> After all,
> Islamabad is closer to Kabul than is Delhi.
> 
> Imagine, 12 percent of all American scientists are
> of Indian origin;
> 38 percent of doctors in America are Indian; 36
> percent of NASA
> scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft
> employees are Indians;
> and 28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.
> 
> For the record: Sabeer Bhatia created and founded
> Hotmail. Sun
> Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The Intel
> Pentium processor,
> that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered
> by Vinod Dham.
> Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak
> project. Four out of
> ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians.
> Bollywood produces
> 800 movies per year and six Indian ladies have won
> Miss Universe/Miss
> World titles over the past 10 years.
> 
> For the record: Azim Premji, the richest Muslim
> entrepreneur on the
> face of the planet, was born in Bombay and now lives
> in Bangalore.
> India now has more than three dozen billionaires (in
> dollars);
> Pakistan has none (not a single dollar billionaire).
> 
> The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at which
> India is creating
> wealth. In 2002, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil
> Ambani's father,
> left his two sons a fortune worth $2.8 billion. In
> 2007, their
> combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29 October
> 2007, as a result
> of the stock market rally and the appreciation of
> the Indian rupee,
> Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with
> net worth climbing
> to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest
> American, stands at around
> $56 billion).
> 
> Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome
> haplogroup. We have
> the same genetic sequence and the same genetic
> marker (namely: M124).
> We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA
> sequence. Our culture, our
> traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We
> watch the same movies
> and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians do
> and we don't:
> Indians elect their leaders.
> 
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Regards,
Rajababu, Nivraaj Consultants
rajababu_75@yahoo.com


      
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