welcome

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

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

Mythology

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

Generates-

The
Trinity

Brahma

Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-Shiva
Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva

The Great Indian Epics

Ramayan
a

The first
Indian epic

Mahabharat
Longest
Epic
in
a

world literature
with 100,000
two-line stanzas

Worlds first university in Takshila 700

B.C
Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine
known to humans
Sanskrit Language most suitable for
computer software

Yoga- Made in India

Origin 5000 BC
Documented by

200 BC 300 AD

Origin of Martial arts 200 BC

Kalarippaya

1700s British invasion

15th August , 1947

Indian Independence

26th January , 1950

Republic- India

National Emblem

Truth alone
triumphs

National Animal

Tiger

National Bird - Peacock

National Flower - Lotus

Great Indian Personalities

Aryabhatta

Invented the Zero

Mahatma Gandhi

Father of the nation

Embodiment of Non- Violence

Swami Vivekananda

Champion of humanitarianism

Ramanujam
Great Indian Mathematician

Postulated and proved 3,542

theorems

Rabindranath Tagore

1913 Nobel Prize in Literature

C.V Raman

1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics

Work on scattering of light and
Raman effect

Mother Teresa

1979 Nobel Prize in Peace

Har Gobind Khorana

1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine

Work on interpretation of the genetic

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics

Work on structure and evolution of

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 - Gods own country

Celebrates more than 65
festivals

Places of historic importance

Tirumala - Tirupati
Worlds richest temple

Saint Thomas Cathedral

Statue of Virgin Mary brought from
Portugal in 1543

The Golden Temple

Jamma Masjid
The biggest mosque in India

Thousand pillar temple

Gateway of India

Jantar Mantar 1716

Modernistic structures to observe the
movement of stars

Mysore Palace
Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs

Buddha Statue
Largest monolithic statue in Asia

Dal Lake
Jewel in the crown of Kashmir

The Taj Mahal

Calcutta City of joy

Cherrapunji
Wettest place on earth

Be Proud of Being an
Indian

Jai Hind
-

THANK YOU
Presented by
Lizy Naidu
Narayanamma