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everything else that any office has.
The driver remained impressed and then decided to explain some
things about his country while he was navigating his way to the
airport. He gave a history of India that was condensed to a few
minutes. He also explained that there were hundreds of languages
and dialects in his country, a different accent every 30 miles, but
that no matter if you were in the provinces somewhere or in Punjab,
there were two words everybody knew.
It was my employee's turn to be curious, and she asked, "What
are they?"
The driver took his hands off the wheel to act out and say "You're
fired!" with great glee.
My employee had a good laugh and then kindly asked him if he
knew where the airport was, and he said not to worry, he would try
to find it. Which, I'm happy to say, he did and with no problem. He
obviously had a very good sense of direction, as well as a sense of
sharing about his country.
Do we have any sense of the direction India is going? Dowe know
anything about India?

Here are a few facts to get us going:

• India is the world's largest, oldest continuous civilization.
• In the last 10,000 years, India has never invaded any country.
• India is the world's largest democracy.
• India is one of the few countries in the world that gained
independence without violence.
• The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 6,000 years
ago. (Maybe that's where that young driver was from).
• Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
• India was the richest country on earth until the 17th Century,
when the British invaded.
• Chess was invented in India.

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