Forward a mail to make a truth

A software engineer developing something that he doesn't care a damn about or providing support to a company that he hardly has interest in took some time off and created a forward mail just for the fun of it and fired it off. It started travelling across the mail servers around the world providing false information and entertainment to people around the world. One such email about India created havoc when it was quoted by the union minister Purandhareshwari nowhere else than the parliament itself. May be you too got that email quoting the number of Indians working at NASA, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Google, World Bank, Harward, Wharton, Oxford and everything else that is important to the world. Our union minister who has no interest in checking the facts quoted the figures in the parliament. The next day it came in the newspapers some fuming over the government while the others blindly published the same thinking that the government might have checked the facts. Purandhareshwari later corrected that the information was not taken from an email, but from eenadu, the leading newspaper in telugu, trying to add some authenticity to the news. Columnists had a field day commenting on the government. Tehelka went a step ahead and asked an Indian Engineer from NASA to actually find the facts. Some Indian students studying in universities abroad actually quoted the information in the academic presentations who later came to know of the truth only when they actually joined those corporations.