Most Indians are aware that they have a great heritage, but few would include science in it. Many significant contributions have been made for hundereds of years. Like, Indus Valley civilization, Aryans who had scientific attitude, system of medicine "Ayurveda", astronomical treatises, and much more...

He is known as the Father of Plastic Surgery.He mended a nose some 26 centuries ago.And what he did is not greatly different from what a plastic surgeon would do today.He was the first physician to advocate what is today konown as "Caesarean" operation...

He was the first physician to present the concept of digestion,...He also knew the fundamentals of genetics.Studying the anatomy of the human body,he gave 360 as the total....

He was the first to deduce that the earth is round and ....He gave the value of (pi) as 3.1416....And he was the first mathematician to give what later came to be called the tables of Sines....

The mathematician who first framed the rules of operation for zero was Brahmagupta.He was also to give a solution to indeterminate equations of the type ax 2 +1=y 2 and the founder of a branch of higher mathematics called....

The king had rescused the princess from a gang of brigands.They were in love with each other.She asked a question that no Hollywood or Bollywood film script writer would have ever thought of putting .......which made him one of the greatest astronomers and mathematicians of his time...

Raman was very delighted to hear about the Crompton Effect.He thought ,"if this Crompton effect was true for X-rays,it must be true of light too."Another question also creeped into his mind,"Could light also change its nature when passed through a transparent medium?".....to find the Raman Effect.

Among several experiments he conducted was this one: A highly sensitive instrument---one of Bose's inventions to record the "pulse" of plants---was connected to a plant and the conclusions that plants and metals have life...

He was a college lecturer and scientist, who had set up a small laboratory at his house.People wondered what scientific purpose could he hope to serve by dumping on the terrace sackfuls of cattle bones he had got from the local butcher.....to find a nerve tonic ,converting the cattle waste...

We have three bananas," the teacher said,"and we have three boys.Can you tell me how many each will get?".A smart boy answered that each would get one.A boy in the corner raised his hand and stood up and asked,"if no banana is distributed among no one, will everyone still get one banana?" There was a roar of laughter in the class. This boy grew up to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society ,the second Indian to receive this distinguished fellowship....

Most beds are of standard size.Espically those put in dormitories.The result is that those who are very tall have to learn to sleep curled up or.....Usually , no one would think of blaming any person for their plight, but at Santiniketan,the university set up Rabindranath Tagore,the students were sure who was responsible for some of them losing their sleep.It had to be Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the man with an obsession for statistics....

A fire was fired and a huge balloon rose up, carrying a man with it."How did the balloon rise?", asked a nine year old boy....He is renowned for his contributions to the study of ionosphere and was the one who found out why the night sky appears dusty black and not jet black as it should....