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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.
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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
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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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Mythology
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AUM or OM
The first sound of the Almighty
Oneness with the supremeAshok K
Generates-Brahma
Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-ShivaBrahma-Vishnu-Shiva
The Trinity
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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
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World’s first university in Takshila –700 B.C
Sanskrit Language –most suitable for computer software
Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine known to humans
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Yoga- Made in India
Origin –5000 BC
Documented by
200 BC – 300 ADAshok
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Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC
Kalarippayat Ashok K
1700s – British invasion
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15th August , 1947
Indian Independence
26th January , 1950
Republic- India Ashok K
National Emblem
“Truth alone triumphs”
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National Animal - Tiger
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National Bird - Peacock
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National Flower - Lotus
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Great Indian Personalities
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Invented the Zero
Aryabhatta
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Mahatma Gandhi
Father of the nation
Embodiment of Non- Violence
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Swami Vivekananda
Champion of humanitarianism
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Great Indian Mathematician
Postulated and proved 3,542 theorems
Ramanujam
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Rabindranath Tagore
1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature
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1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on scattering of light and Raman effect
C.V Raman
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1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace
Mother Teresa
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1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Work on interpretation of the genetic
code
Har Gobind Khorana
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on structure and evolution of stars Ashok K
Dance forms
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More than 45 folk dances
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7 Classical Dance forms
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Bharata Natyam
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Kathak
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Kathakali
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Kuchipudi
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Manipuri
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Mohini Attam
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Odissi
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More than 15 vocal forms
More than 60 music instruments
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India - God’s own country
Celebrates more than 65 festivals
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Places of historic importance
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Tirumala - Tirupati
World’s richest templeAshok K
Saint Thomas CathedralStatue of Virgin Mary brought from
Portugal in 1543Ashok K
The Golden Temple
Jamma Masjid
The biggest mosque in IndiaAshok K
Thousand pillar temple
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Gateway of India
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Jantar Mantar – 1716
Modernistic structures to observe the movement of stars
Mysore Palace
Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs
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Buddha Statue
Largest monolithic statue in Asia
Dal Lake
Jewel in the crown of Kashmir
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The Taj Mahal
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Calcutta – City of joy
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Cherrapunji
Wettest place on earth
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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
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Be Proud of Being anIndian
Jai Hind
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