The document provides information about India's history, culture, and achievements. It discusses India's flag and its symbols representing courage, purity, and fertility. It notes that India has a 5,000 year old civilization, over 1,000 languages spoken, and a population of over 1 billion people in 2000. It also summarizes India's parliamentary democracy, secular constitution, and status as the world's largest democracy and fast growing economy. The document then highlights aspects of Indian mythology, epics, ancient civilizations, and scientific and mathematical achievements throughout history. It concludes by praising India's diversity of cultures, religions, festivals, heritage sites, and natural beauty.

1. Ashok

2. 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. Ashok

3. 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
Ashok

4. 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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5. Ashok

6. Mythology
Ashok

7. AUM or OM
The first sound of the Almighty
Oneness with the supreme

8. Generates-Brahma
Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-Shiva
Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva
The Trinity

9. The Great Indian Epics
Ramayana Mahabharata
Longest Epic in
world literature
with 100,000 two-
line stanzas
The first Indian
epic

10. Indus Valley Civilization- one of the world’s
first great urban civilizations.
Harappa Civilization- 2700BC

11. World’s first university in Takshila –700 B.C
Sanskrit Language –most suitable for computer software
Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine known to humans

12. Yoga- Made in India
Origin –5000 BC
Documented by
200 BC – 300 AD Ashok

13. Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC
Kalarippayat

14. 1700s – British invasion

15. 15th
August , 1947
Indian Independence
26th
January , 1950
Republic- India

16. National Emblem
“Truth alone triumphs”

17. National Animal - Tiger

18. National Bird - Peacock

19. National Flower - Lotus

20. Great Indian Personalities

21. Invented the Zero
Aryabhatta

22. Mahatma Gandhi
Father of the nation
Embodiment of Non- Violence

23. Swami Vivekananda
Champion of humanitarianism

24. Great Indian Mathematician
Postulated and proved 3,542 theorems
Ramanujam

25. Rabindranath Tagore
1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature

26. 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on scattering of light and Raman effect
C.V Raman

27. 1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace
Mother Teresa

28. 1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Work on interpretation of the genetic code
Har Gobind Khorana

29. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics
Work on structure and evolution of stars

30. Dance forms

31. More than 45 folk dances

32. 7 Classical Dance forms

33. Bharata Natyam

34. Kathak

35. Kathakali

36. Kuchipudi

37. Manipuri

38. Mohini Attam

39. Odissi

40. More than 15 vocal forms
More than 60 music instruments

41. India - God’s own country
Celebrates more than 65 festivals

42. Places of historic importance

43. Tirumala - Tirupati
World’s richest temple

44. Saint Thomas Cathedral
Statue of Virgin Mary brought from Portugal in
1543

45. The Golden Temple

46. Jamma Masjid
The biggest mosque in India

47. Thousand pillar temple

48. Gateway of India

49. Jantar Mantar – 1716
Modernistic structures to observe the movement of
stars

50. Mysore Palace
Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs

51. Buddha Statue
Largest monolithic statue in Asia

52. Dal Lake
Jewel in the crown of Kashmir

53. The Taj Mahal

54. Calcutta – City of joy

55. Cherrapunji
Wettest place on earth

56. 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

57. Be Proud of Being an
Indian
Jai Hind
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