Ajab India Ki Kahani

15th August , 1947

Indian Independence

26th January , 1950

Republic- India

August 15th, Independence Day

in India

India's Independence Day on August 15th commemorates the end of British rule in 1947.

The day is a national holiday in India and celebrated all over the country.

This is also the day when India and Pakistan were divided into two separate countries.

On August 15th, you’ll find tricolor flags and buntings everywhere.

…while buildings of national importance are illuminated.

Public Domain picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:20060302-16_d-1386-515h.jpg

The Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag at the Red Fort in New Delhi.

Families and friends get together for lunch or dinner, or for a picnic.

The homes are decorated with saffron, white, and green, the colors of the Indian flag.

Happy Independence Day

Carried With Care

Coated with Pride

Dipped in Love

Fly in Glory

Moments of Freedom in Shades of Joy

India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of

history.

Nationals

National Flag - Tricolour (Tiranga)

National Emblem - Satyameva Jayate

National Song – Vande Matram

National Anthem – Jana Gana Mana

National Animal - Tiger

National Bird - Peacock

National Flower - Lotus

National Festivals – Indian Independence Day, Gandhi Jayati,

Republic Day

National Emblem

“Truth alone triumphs”

Great Indian

Personalities

Invented the Zero

Aryabhatta / Aryabhattacharya

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

1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine

Work on interpretation of the genetic

code

Har Gobind Khorana

1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace

Mother Teresa

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- Tamil Nadu

Kathak-Noth Indian States

Kathakali- Kerla

Kuchipudi- Andhra Pradesh

Manipuri-Manipur

Mohini Attam-Kerla

Odissi- Orissa

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

Facts & Figures

5000 year Civilization

325 languages spoken

1,652 dialects

3.28 million sq. kilometers Area 7,516 kilometers Coastline

1,326,597,003 people in 2000

Parliamentary form of Government

Secular democratic constitution

4th Largest Economy

Worlds largest democracy since 60 years

One of the fastest growing

IT super power

Indian Railways, the world’s biggest employer in the world

Capital – New Delhi

Largest City – Mumbai

Currency – Indian Rupee

Calling Code – +91

Independence:15th August, 1947

Future

"In India today, we have a lady born a Catholic (Sonia Gandhi) stepping aside so a Sikh (Manmohan Singh) could be sworn in by a Muslim president (Abdul

Kalam) to lead a nation that's 82% Hindu. I defy anyone to cite another country with such

diversity and tolerance to its political leadership."

Secular Tolerance

Goldman Sachs Report of 1 October, 2003 –

"Dreaming with BRICs: The path to 2050”

India's GDP will reach $ 1 trillion by 2011, $ 2 trillion by 2020, $ 3 trillion by 2025, $ 6 trillion by 2032,

$ 10 trillion by 2038, and $ 27 trillion by 2050,

becoming the 3rd largest economy after USA and China. In terms of GDP, India will overtake Italy by the year 2016,

France by 2019, UK by 2022, Germany by 2023, and Japan by 2032.

Progress during the last 20 years

Poverty (incidence)1980s 1990s 200044% 36% 26%

Education (literacy rate)1980s 1990s 200044% 52% 65%

Health (life expectancy)1980s 1990s 200056 60 69

Source: World Bank (2003)

India’s population to be the largest in the world

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050.

India’s population is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently.

India, will also have the highest working population in the World — 700 million people out of 1.1 billion people are young; the young population will continue till 2050.

Yoga- Made in India

Origin –5000 BC

Documented by

200 BC – 300 AD

Origin of Martial arts – 200 BC

Kalarippayat

MADE IN INDIA

has the largest number of Post Offices in the world

Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world 

(Source: Gemological Institute of America)

India exports

software

to 90 countri

es.

Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.

Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.

National Emblem

“Truth alone triumphs”

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100

BC.

This method of graduated calculation was documented in the Pancha-Siddhantika (Five Principles) in the 5th Century But the technique is said to be dating from Vedic times circa 2000 B.C.

The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, & he explained the concept of what is now known as the

Pythagorean Theorem

British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works date back to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians

Algebra,Trigonometry &

Calculus came from India.

Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century

The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10**6(10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the

power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period

Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12)

The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC.

More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of

education.

Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.

Sanskrit is the most suitable language for

computer software

reported in Forbes

magazine, July 1987.

According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years

before the astronomer Smart.

Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated

Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.

The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago.

The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.

According to the Gemological Institute of

America, up until 1896, India was the

only source for diamonds to the

world.

Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India

Sushruta is the father of surgery.

2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain

surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India

Over 125 surgical equipment were used

Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in

many texts

When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley Civilization)

Mythology

AUM or OM

The first sound of the Almighty

Oneness with the supreme

Generates- Brahma

Observes- Vishnu

Destroys- Shiva Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva

The Trinity

Our GOD:

The Great Indian Epics

Ramayana

MahabharataLongest Epic in

world literature with 100,000

two-line stanzas (DOHA)

The first Indian epic

But this INDIA today is gifted to us By the sacrifices of our leaders who gave us independence.

FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Lala Lajpat Rai (1865 – 1928 )

Bal Gangadhar Tilak ( 1856 -1920 )

Jawaharlal Nehru ( 1889 – 1964 )

Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister

Mahatma Gandhi ( 1869 – 1948 )

Young Mohandas K. Young Mohandas K. Gandhi, Gandhi, 18761876

Gandhi as a Young Gandhi as a Young Barrister in NatalBarrister in Natal

Gandhi as a Lawyer Gandhi as a Lawyer in in Johannesburg, So. Johannesburg, So. AfricaAfrica

Gandhi and His Gandhi and His Wife, Kasturba, Wife, Kasturba, 19151915

Gandhi spinning Gandhi spinning clothcloth

Gandhi and His Gandhi and His Grandaughters, Grandaughters, 19471947

1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets.

A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral

procession.

Subhash Chandra Bose

Last Viceroy of India Last Viceroy of India

Lord Louis & Lady Edwina MontbattenLord Louis & Lady Edwina Montbatten

Movements to Freedom

Non Co-operation Movement

Dandi March

Quit India Movement

Civil Disobedience Movement

Partition of India

A Library being divided at the time of partition. Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to

hold hands

“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 constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only”

Mark Twain

"India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all."

- Will Durant- American Historian 1885-1981

“If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence, it is India."

Romain Rolland - French Philosopher 1886-1944

“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 conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.”

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

“Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago”

Grant Duff British Historian of India

The future belongs to India.

Jai Hind.

Mera Bharat Mahan

Let’s Be Like This Child

Be Proud of Being anIndian

Jai Hind!