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印度是世界上最被高估的國家嗎？
Shashank Goyal，Indian by birth
This is easy to test.
Listed below are 10 statements about India. One can go through the list and confirm how many they think are true -
One fifth of the Indians live below the National Poverty Line and the world’s third largest slum is in India
Some rural areas in India face severe problem of female feticide and to counter the issue, gender determination tests are legally banned in India
A big part of the population does not have access to proper sanitation facilities and open defecation is common in parts of rural India
India manufactures more cars than South Korea. India ranks 5th in Automobile manufacturing, 3rd in Steel production and 2nd in Cement production. Total Manufacturing Output from India is world’s 6th largest – ahead of Europe’s powerful economies France, Italy and UK
India was one of the only three countries that indigenously developedSupercomputers after USA and Japan. All other countries with Supercomputing power joined the race later
The world’s largest solar power plant has been built by India in its state of Tamilnadu. At full capacity, it can power about 150,000 homes
One of the most popular Core Banking Software Platforms that is used by large global Banks across 84 countries that serve over 450 million customers is built by an Indian Company (Infosys)
India has an advanced space program that has already launched successful orbiter missions to Moon and to Mars. Evidence of water’s presence on Moon was provided by India. By 2019 - 2020, India is planning a mission to Sun which will travel 1.5 million km from earth to study the Solar Corona
There are more Billionaires in India than in UK. World’s 4th largest number of dollar Billionaires and 8th largest number of dollar Millionaires are in India
India is using the power of education, science and industrializationto eradicate poverty at a massive scale. In less than 2 decades, India has uplifted close to 150 million people out from poverty. This is equivalent to reforming the lives of -
almost half the US population
more than twice the population of UK
more than the combined population of France + Germany
Most people would easily believe the first three but far fewer might be aware that the next seven are true as well. So, to the question 「how many of the above you think are true」 - Every time someone answers anything other than 「All of the above」, they prove that India is actually underrated.
這事很容易考查。
以下是關於印度的10份聲明，我們可以通過這份清單來確認大家（非印度人）認為的有多少是對的-
五分之一的印度人生活在國家貧困線以下，世界第三大貧民窟也在印度。
印度的一些農村地區面臨嚴重的女嬰流產問題，為了解決這一問題，印度法律禁止進行性別鑑定測試。
很大一部分人口沒有適當的衛生設施可以使用，印度農村地區，露天排便現象很普遍。
印度製造的汽車比韓國多，汽車製造業排名第五，鋼鐵生產排名第三，水泥生產排名第二。印度的製造業總產值是世界第六，超過了歐洲發達經濟體法國、義大利和英國。
印度是世界上第三個能本土研發超級計算機的國家，[tr]僅於美國和日本之後。其他擁有超算的國家後來（印度之後）都加入了這場競賽。
世界上最大的太陽能發電廠是由印度泰米爾納德邦建造的。在滿負荷的情況下，它可以為大約15萬戶家庭供電。
最受歡迎的核心銀行軟體平臺之一是由印度一家公司(印孚瑟斯)開發的，該平臺由84個國家的大型跨國銀行使用，為四億五千萬客戶提供服務。
印度有一個先進的太空計劃，已經成功發射了火箭到月球和火星。水在月球上存在的證據也是印度提供的。2019到2020，印度計劃向太陽進發，將在離地球150萬公裡的軌道上研究日冕。
印度的億萬富翁比英國還要多。世界第四的億萬富翁和第八的百萬富翁都在印度。
印度正在利用教育、科學和工業化大規模消除貧困。在不到20年的時間裡，印度已經使接近一億五千萬人擺脫貧困。這相當於-
Rahul Shrivastava，Ambassador of India to Venezuela.
There was recently a world-wide competition to find out the most overrated country in the world. The judges had almost decided that no other country but India deserved this distinction. However, just before the announcement was to be made, someone brought to the notice of the judges just a few of the achievements of ancient India, which are given below:
The decimal place-value and a symbol for zero which developed in India in the 1st Century AD became the precursor of the Arabic numeral system. The practice of using a decimal mark is derived from the decimal system used in Indian mathematics.
Rulers for measuring were first used during the Indus Valley Civilisation (2600 - 1600 BC). These rulers were made from ivory, divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (33.5 mm) and were marked out in decimal subdivisions with accuracy to within 0.005 of an inch.
Weighing scales were first used during the Indus Valley Civilisation, which is also when banking was first performed.
Fields were first ploughed during the Indus Valley Civilisation.
最近有一場全球範圍內的競賽，以找出世界上最被高估的國家。法官們幾乎判定，除了印度以外，沒有任何國家能得此殊榮。然而，就在宣判之前，有人提請法官注意古代印度的一些成就，具體如下：
公園一世紀在印度發展起來的小數位和零符號是阿拉伯數字系統的前身，小數點的使用是從印度數學中的十進位系統推導出來的。
在印度河流域文明時期(公元前2600至1600)，人類首次使用了測量尺。這些尺子是用象牙製成的，分成1.32英寸(33.5毫米)的單位，用十進位細分，精確到0.005英寸以內。
在印度河流域文明時期，稱重秤和銀行首次出現在歷史舞臺。
在印度河流域文明時期，人類第一次開墾了農田。
(An artist’s impression of life in the Indus Valley Civilisation. Photo source: BBC)
Jute plants were first cultivated in India. So was Cotton.
Flush toilets using water were first used during the Indus Valley Civilisation around 3rd millenium BC.
Puppetry was also used first by the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
Cashmere wool or Pashmina fiber originated from Kashmir where the fiber was first used to make shawls in the 3rd Century BC.
Indigo dye went from India to the Greeks and the Romans and thereon to other parts of the world.
Ornamental buttons were invented in India around 2000 BC.
Steel using the crucible technique, a method of producing high quality steel, was first produced in India around 300 BC. Around 500 BC, Wootz steel was produced by the Chera dynasty. It was exported to the Romans, Egyptians, Chinese and Arabs and was popularly known as Seric Iron.
Iron works were developed in India around 1800 BC. In the time of Chandragupta II (375–413 AD), corrosion-resistant iron was used to erect the Iron pillar of Delhi, which has withstood corrosion for over 1,600 years.
(一位畫家對印度河流域文明生活的印象。圖片來源：BBC)
黃麻植物最早是在印度種植的，棉花也是。
抽水馬桶最初是在公元前三千年左右的印度河流域文明時期被使用的。
木偶戲也首先被印度河流域文明人民使用。
羊絨羊毛或羊絨纖維起源於克什米爾，公元前第三世紀，這種纖維首次被用來製作披肩。
靛藍染料從印度傳到希臘和羅馬，再到世界其他地方。
裝飾鈕扣發明於公元前2000年左右的印度。。
坩堝技術生產優質鋼的方法，是印度公元前300年發明的。公元前500年，烏茲鋼由切拉王朝生產，並被出口到羅馬、埃及、中國和阿拉伯，後被俗稱為中國鐵。
煉鐵廠是在公元前1800年的印度發展起來的。在Chandragupta二世(公元375至413)，耐腐蝕鐵被用來建造德裡的鐵柱，它已經經受了1600多年的風吹雨打。
(Iron pillar in Mehrauli. Photo source - Wikipedia)
Diamonds were first recognized and mined in central India at least 5000 years ago.
Zinc was first smelted from zinc ore in India.
Prefabricated homes and movable structures were invented in India in the 16th-century AD.
Metal seamless globe was invented in Kashmir in the 16th Century AD. Before they were rediscovered in the 1980s, it was believed by modern metallurgists to be technically impossible to produce metal globes without any seams, even with modern technology.
The first iron-cased and metal-cylinder rockets were developed by Tipu Sultan, ruler of the South Indian Kingdom of Mysore, and his father Hyder Ali, in the 1780s. After Tipu's eventual defeat and the capture of the Mysore iron rockets, they were influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, and were soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.
(Mehrauli的鐵柱。圖片來源-維基百科)
(A soldier of Tipu Sultan’s army using the metal cylinder rocket as his flag staff. Photo source: Wikipedia)
The word shampoo in English is derived from the Hindi word 『Champi』 which itself derived is from the Sanskrit root 『Chapayati』, which means to press or knead. A variety of herbs and their extracts were used as shampoos since ancient times in India. Washing of hair and body massage (champu) was an indulgence of early colonial traders in India. When they returned to Europe, they introduced the hair treatment method they called shampoo.
The precursor of chess originated in India during the Gupta dynasty in the 3rd Century AD. The words for 『chess』 in Old Persian and Arabic are chatrang and shatranj respectively — terms derived from Chaturanga in Sanskrit, which means an army of four divisions.
The game of kabaddi originated in India around 1500 BC.
Ludo or Pachisi was invented in India in the 6th Century AD and so was the game of Snakes & Ladders.
Yoga originated in India.
(Tipu Sultan軍隊的一名士兵，用金屬筒火箭作為他的旗幟。圖片來源：維基百科）
在英語中，香波（洗髮水）這個詞來自印地語單詞『Champi』，它本身來自梵語詞根『Chapayati』，意思是按壓或揉捏。印度自古以來就使用各種草藥及其提取物作為洗髮水。洗頭和按摩是早期在印度的殖民國商人的嗜好，當他們回到歐洲時，他們帶去了一種被稱為洗髮水的頭髮處理用品。
西洋棋的前身起源於公元三世紀古普塔王朝的印度。古波斯語和阿拉伯語中的「西洋棋」一詞分別是Chatrang和shatranj--這兩個詞源自梵語中的Chaturanga，意思是四個師的軍隊。
卡巴迪遊戲起源於公元前1500左右的印度。
魯多和印度雙骰是在印度公元第六世紀時期發明的，蛇爬梯子也是。
瑜伽起源於印度。
Indian surgeon Susruta performed cataract surgery as early as 6th century BC. He was also the first to do rhinoplasty surgery.
Ayurveda and Siddha systems of medicine originated in India in the first-millennium BC. They are the oldest systems of medicine, which are practiced even today.
Sugar was invented in India during the Gupta dynasty in the 4th Century AD. The crystallization process was taken by Buddhist monks to China. And then the whole world learnt the technique.
The Indian mathematician Brahmagupta presented the first instance of finite difference interpolation in 7th Century AD. He also first used algebraic abbreviations.
The trigonometric functions sine and versine originated in Indian astronomy. They were developed in the Siddhantas, astronomical treatises of the 3rd or 4th centuries AD. Later, the 6th Century astronomer Varahamihira discovered a few basic trigonometric formulas and identities, such as sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1.
Aryabhata first identified the force to explain why objects do not fall when the earth rotates. Brahmagupta described gravity as an attractive force and used the term 『gruhtvaakarshan』 for gravity. Aryabhata developed a geocentric solar system of gravitation, and an eccentric elliptical model of the planets, where the planets spin on their axes and follow elliptical orbits,the Sun and the moon revolving around the earth in epicycles.
The Hindu cosmological time cycles explained in the Surya Siddhanta (around 600 AD) give the average length of the sidereal year (the length of the Earth's revolution around the Sun) as 365.2563627 days, which is only a negligible 1.4 seconds longer than the modern value of 365.256363004 days. This was the most accurate estimate for the length of the sidereal year anywhere in the world for over a thousand years.
Way back in the 6th century AD, Indian astronomers showed that comets were celestial bodies that re-appeared periodically. In the 10th century AD, astronomer Bhattotpala listed the names and estimated periods of certain comets.
The person who brought the above to the notice of the judges wanted to present before them some of India’s recent achievements and the forecast for future. However, the judges said that they were convinced that India was a misfit at a competition to determine the most overrated countries in the world. They said that the only mistake India made was not inventing patenting system and intellectual property rights 5000 years ago.
The judges said that they were in a hurry to leave for the next competition called 『Most Ignorant Person of the Century.』 However, they thanked the person for making their job easier in selecting the winner of their next competition, which they said they would definitely present to the person who posed the question 『Is India the most overrated country in the world?』
早在公元前六世紀，印度外科醫生蘇斯魯塔就進行了白內障手術。他也是第一個做隆鼻手術的人。
阿育吠陀和西達的醫學體系起源於公元前一千年的印度.。它們是最古老的醫學系統，直到現在也還在使用中。
糖是在四世紀時期的印度古普塔王朝發明的。糖的結晶過程由佛教僧侶帶到了中國，然後全世界都學會了這一技術。
印度數學家布拉馬古塔在公元七世紀首次提出了有限差分插值的例子。他還首次使用代數縮寫。
三角函數中的正弦和正矢起源於印度天文學，陳述於《Siddhantas》-三世紀或四世紀的天文學著作。再後來，六世紀的天文學家伐羅訶密希羅發現了一些三角函數的共性和基本公式，如sin^ 2（x）+ cos^ 2（x）= 1 。
Aryabhata首先確定了力來解釋為什麼地球自轉時物體不會墜落。婆羅門把重力描述為一種吸引力，並用「GRUhtvaakarshan」一詞來表示重力。Aryabhata開創了太陽引力的地心學說和一個行星偏心橢圓模型，行星旋轉在其軸上，並循著橢圓軌跡，即太陽和月亮圍繞著地球周轉。
SuryaSiddhanta(大約公元600年)關於印度宇宙時間周期的論述中，提到恆星年的平均時間(地球繞太陽的公轉時間)為365.2563627天，比現代測量的365.256363004天只多了1.4秒，它作為世上最為精確的恆星年時間已有一千多年。
早在公元六世紀，印度天文學家就發現彗星是周期性出現的天體。在公元十世紀，天文學家巴託斯帕拉列出了部分彗星的名稱和周期。
提請法官注意上述情況的人接下來準備向他們介紹印度最近取得的一些成就和對未來的預測。然而，法官們說，他們認為印度在這場「世界最被高估者」大賽中表現不佳，印度犯的唯一錯誤就是5000年前沒有發明專利制度和智慧財產權制度。
法官們還說，他們急著要去參加下一屆名為「世紀最無知者」的比賽，他們要感謝這屆比賽讓他們輕易地選出了下一屆的優勝者，被提名者就將是這位提出「印度是世界上最被高估的國家嗎？」的仁兄。
評論：
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Thanks for the answer. It's like this: Someone asks if you have any talent and then you reply, 「do you know who my father is? Do you know what my grandfather has done? Do you even realize how my great grandfather succeeded in life?」
I think we are a bit tired of knowing our history as of now and wanting to know our present and future. India is definitely not overrated but we got to address the elephant in the room.
謝謝你的回答。但這就像，別人問你有什麼才能而你卻說：「知道我爸是誰嗎？知道我爺爺做過什麼嗎？知道我祖公曾經是多麼成功嗎？」
我們已經對強調過多的歷史感到厭倦，只想去窺探印度的現狀和未來。印度肯定沒有被高估，但我們也不能對那些明明存在的問題視而不見。
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Isn’t that funny as well as sad?
The rating was for the India of TODAY.
The evidence was from 5000 years back!
Seriously! And we say it with pride!
If that does not show how much India has deteriorated since then (5000 years ago) relative to other countries, what does?
Now, can we have that question again please?!
This country will start developing the day we Indians stop bringing up Indus Valley Civilization as the highest point reached by India in all spheres.
No other country takes up achievements 1000, 2000 years old and makes a song and dance about it as we do.
Thats about as bankrupt as we can get in terms of evolution.
這難道不既好笑又悲傷嗎？
對於當今印度的評估和評價，
居然需要5000年前的證據來證明！
可笑的是，我們竟以此為榮！
如果這不能說明印度從5000年前起相比其他國家就已經開始惡化，還能說明什麼？
現在，我們能不能重新審視問題，尋找答案？！
這個國家，只有當我們印度人不再把印度河流域文明作為印度在所有領域達到的最高點的那一天起，才會得到長足的發展。
沒有其他國家像我們這樣，喜歡拿起千年前的成就，為之歌舞。
這就是我們發展過程當中最大的破產。
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We still do not have a good patenting system. It takes more than an year to find out if a patent would indeed be granted. The same should be done in a weeks time. I had submitted a patent an year ago, and just waiting and waiting for the result has made it frustrating. If patents are granted on time, more money can be ploughed in for research and product development, as you know that it would be a safe bet.
我們仍然沒有一個好的專利制度。通常要花一年甚至更多的時間才能確定一項專利是否真的被授予。與此類似的事都應在一周內完成。在一年前，我提交了一份專利申請，只是等待結果就讓我感到沮喪。如果專利都能被按時授予，就可以為產品研發投入更多的資金。你知道的，這絕對是一個安全的賭注。
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India is pretty overrated. The reason they have these things is because they have a population that is over one billion. Oh, you lifted 150 million people out of poverty, half the USA population. You did that because you had around 500 million or more in poverty the year before. Countries like the USA could not do that as they do not have that poverty, and also the USA only has 2/3rds of the citizens of India's whole poverty population. India is way overrated.
印度絕對是被高估了。他們有這些東西是因為他們有超過十億的人口。印度讓一億五千萬人擺脫了貧困，佔美國人口的一半？這是因為之前有五億或更多的人生活在赤貧之中。像美國這樣的國家不可能做到這一點，他們根本沒有這種貧困，美國總人口也就只有印度全部貧困人口的2/3。印度是被高估的。
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