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Slide2: 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.
Slide3: 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
Slide4: 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.
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Slide6: Mythology
Slide7: AUM or OM The first sound of the Almighty
Oneness with the supreme
Slide8: Generates-Brahma
Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-Shiva Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva The Trinity
Slide9: The Great Indian Epics Ramayana Mahabharata Longest Epic in world literature with 100,000 two-line stanzas The first Indian epic
Slide10: Indus Valley Civilization- one of the world’s first great urban civilizations. Harappa Civilization- 2700BC
Slide11: World’s first university in Takshila –700 B.C Sanskrit Language –most suitable for computer software Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine known to humans
Slide12: Yoga- Made in India Origin –5000 BC
Documented by 200 BC – 300 AD
Slide13: Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC Kalarippayat
Slide14: 1700s – British invasion
Slide15: 15th August , 1947
Indian Independence 26th January , 1950
Republic- India
Slide16: National Emblem 'Truth alone triumphs'
Slide17: National Animal - Tiger
Slide18: National Bird - Peacock
Slide19: National Flower - Lotus
Slide20: Great Indian Personalities
Slide21: Invented the Zero Aryabhatta
Slide22: Mahatma Gandhi Father of the nation
Embodiment of Non- Violence
Slide23: Swami Vivekananda Champion of humanitarianism
Slide24: Great Indian Mathematician
Postulated and proved 3,542 theorems Ramanujam
Slide25: Rabindranath Tagore 1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature
Slide26: 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on scattering of light and Raman effect C.V Raman
Slide27: 1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace Mother Teresa
Slide28: 1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Work on interpretation of the genetic code Har Gobind Khorana
Slide29: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar 1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on structure and evolution of stars
Slide30: Dance forms
Slide31: More than 45 folk dances
Slide32: 7 Classical Dance forms
Slide33: Bharata Natyam
Slide34: Kathak
Slide35: Kathakali
Slide36: Kuchipudi
Slide37: Manipuri
Slide38: Mohini Attam
Slide39: Odissi
Slide40: More than 15 vocal forms More than 60 music instruments
Slide41: India - God’s own country
Celebrates more than 65 festivals
Slide42: Places of historic importance
Slide43: Tirumala - Tirupati
World’s richest temple
Slide44: Saint Thomas Cathedral
Statue of Virgin Mary brought from Portugal in 1543
Slide45: The Golden Temple
Slide46: Jamma Masjid
The biggest mosque in India
Slide47: Thousand pillar temple
Slide48: Gateway of India
Slide49: Jantar Mantar – 1716
Modernistic structures to observe the movement of stars
Slide50: Mysore Palace
Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs
Slide51: Buddha Statue
Largest monolithic statue in Asia
Slide52: Dal Lake
Jewel in the crown of Kashmir
Slide53: The Taj Mahal
Slide54: Calcutta – City of joy
Slide55: Cherrapunji
Wettest place on earth
Slide56: 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
Slide57: Be Proud of Being an
Indian
Jai Hind -