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The saffron stands for courage, sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation. The white, is meant for purity and truth.
The green is for faith and fertility.
The navy blue wheel denotes the continuity of the nation's progress which is deemed to be as boundless as the blue sky and as fathomless as the deep blue sea.
5,000 year old civilization 325 languages spoken – 1,652
dialects 18 official languages 29 states, 5 union territories 3.28 million sq. kilometers -
Area 7,516 kilometers - Coastline 1,000,000,000 people in 2000
Parliamentary form of Government
Secular democratic constitution
Worlds largest democracy since 55 years
4th largest economy Fastest growing IT super power Indian Railways ,the biggest
employer in the world.
Mythology
AUM or OM
The first sound of the AlmightyOneness with the supreme
Generates-Brahma
Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-ShivaBrahma-Vishnu-Shiva
The Trinity
The Great Indian Epics
Ramayana
MahabharataLongest Epic in
world literature with 100,000
two-line stanzas
The first Indian epic
Indus Valley Civilization- one of the world’s first great urban
civilizations.
Harappa Civilization- 2700BC
World’s first university in Takshila –700 B.C
Sanskrit Language –most suitable for computer software
Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine known to humans
Yoga- Made in India
Origin –5000 BCDocumented by
200 BC – 300 AD
Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC
Kalarippayat
1700s – British invasion
15th August , 1947Indian Independence
26th January , 1950Republic- India
National Emblem
“Truth alone triumphs”
National Animal - Tiger
National Bird - Peacock
National Flower - Lotus
Great Indian Personalities
Invented the Zero
Aryabhatta
Mahatma Gandhi
Father of the nation Embodiment of Non- Violence
Swami Vivekananda
Champion of humanitarianism
Great Indian MathematicianPostulated and proved 3,542
theorems
Ramanujam
Rabindranath Tagore
1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature
1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics Work on scattering of light and
Raman effect
C.V Raman
1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace
Mother Teresa
1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine Work on interpretation of the genetic
code
Har Gobind Khorana
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1983 - Nobel Laureate in PhysicsWork on structure and evolution of
stars
Dance forms
More than 45 folk dances
7 Classical Dance forms
Bharata Natyam
Kathak
Kathakali
Kuchipudi
Manipuri
Mohini Attam
Odissi
More than 15 vocal forms
More than 60 music instruments
India - God’s own countryCelebrates more than 65
festivals
Places of historic importance
Tirumala - TirupatiWorld’s richest temple
Saint Thomas CathedralStatue of Virgin Mary brought from
Portugal in 1543
The Golden Temple
Jamma MasjidThe biggest mosque in India
Thousand pillar temple
Gateway of India
Jantar Mantar – 1716Modernistic structures to observe the
movement of stars
Mysore PalaceIlluminated by 97,000 light bulbs
Buddha StatueLargest monolithic statue in Asia
Dal LakeJewel in the crown of Kashmir
The Taj Mahal
Calcutta – City of joy
CherrapunjiWettest place on earth
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
-Albert Einstein
India is,the cradle of the human race,the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history,the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition.Our most valuable and most instructive materials in
the history of man are treasured up in India only.
-Mark Twain
Be Proud of Being anIndian
Jai Hind-