Research-based book "Great minds on INDIA", widely acclaimed as one of its kind ever published, by an eminent research scholar from Shillong, Meghalaya (India), contains the quotes/opinions of the world-renowned intellectual giants in appreciation of the ancient Indian wisdom. The outcome of an exhaustive research was first published in Xerox format in 1998. The fervent appreciation of classical knowledge and spiritual wisdom by the world-renowned rational thinkers, scientists, writers and statesmen such as Voltaire, Friedrich Hegel, J. Goethe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Einstein, Ralph Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, T. S. Eliot, Julius Oppenheimer, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, Herman Hesse, William Butler Yeats, et al should encourage and widen the scope for further exploration into the fathomless wisdom of India. The book that has been translated into nine languages such as - Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Nepali is edited by a noted NASA scientist Dr AV Murali, Houston, Texas and Ms Susan Strebe of Kensington, California. Also incorporated as a textbook by several academic institutions gives a significant insight into the contribution of India in the development of the Modern science, Mathematics, Linguistic, Metallurgy, Cosmology, Astronomy, Psychology, and other areas of studies - the facts hardly find any mention and appreciation in the mainstream academic books. - from Amzon