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 Almighty

Oneness 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 BC

Documented by

200 BC – 300 AD

Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC

Kalarippayat

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

Invented the Zero

Aryabhatta

Mahatma Gandhi

Father of the nation

Embodiment of Non- Violence

Swami Vivekananda

Champion of humanitarianism

Great Indian Mathematician

Postulated 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 Physics

Work 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 country

Celebrates more than 65 festivals

Places of historic importance

Tirumala - Tirupati

World’s richest temple

Saint Thomas CathedralStatue 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

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