LITANJALI
SAHU

 Incredible is something
unbelievable... too good to be true.
India has an amazing variety in
terms of cultures, traditions,
clothes, people, religion, languages,
vegetation, population, landforms,
soil colours, cuisine, musical
instruments, vocal music, dances.
 And yet there's unity in so much
diversity
 Three oceans meet at the Southern tip
of India, on the North are the beautiful
snowy mountains, and in between
these are gorgeous hill stations,
plateaus, plains, tropical forests,
flowing rivers, pastures, farms, tiny
towns and attractive cities
WHY INDIA IS CALLED
INCREDIBLE INDIA

 The name 'India' is derived from the River Indus, the
valleys around which were the home of the early
settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river
Indus as the Sindhu.
 The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.
 Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father of Medicine, Charaka,
consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
 The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained in the
Pythagorean Theorem.
 Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
And yet there's unity in so much
diversity
Three oceans meet at the Southern tip
of India, on the North are the beautiful
snowy mountains, and in between these
are gorgeous hill stations, plateaus,
plains, tropical forests, flowing rivers,
pastures, farms, tiny towns and
attractive cities

RELIGIONS AND SPIRITUALITY
 Religion in India is characterized by a diversity of religious beliefs and
practices.
 India is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions; namely Hinduism,
Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism
 80.5% of the population of India practise Hinduism. Sikhism (1.9%), Buddhism
(0.8%) and Jainism (0.4%) are the other major religions followed by the people
of India
 Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's
culture.
Religious diversity and religious tolerance are both established in the country
by the law and custom

 The Muslim population thai is follower of Islam in India is the third
largest in the world
 Christians are more then 2% of India's population. There are also
Zoroastrians who even though make less then 0.01% of India's
population
 Zoroastrianism and Judaism also have an ancient history in India

NAMASTE
 Namaste or namaskar or namaskaram is a
common spoken greeting in indian sub-continent.
 Namaskar is considered formal version than
namaste but both express deep respect.
 It is derived from sanskrit (namah) , it literally
means “I bow to you” – my greetings, salutations or
prostration to you.
 Namaste is performed when a younger family
member meets older relatives.

Spirituality
FAMILY
Family plays an important role in the Indian
cultures.India has a prevailing tradition of
joint hindu family system.
MARRIAGES
For centuries, arranged marriages has been the
tradition of indian society through menand women
have always hadthe chioce of who they want to
marry.
Even today ,the vast majority of Indian have there
marriages planned by there parents and other
respected family members,
The divorce rate is extremely low compared
with 50% of the United States.The arranged
marriages generally have a much lower divorce rate.

DIVERSITY IN INDIA
Cultural Diversity in India has a history of thousands of years .
Indian’s languages, dances, clothing,
Food, architecture differ from place
to place within the country.
It is this diversity which has created
a sense of unity among the Indians.
This diversity has enriched our
social life.

 Lohri
In the north particularly in Punjab, the
day before Makar Sankranti is celebrated as
Lohri.
 Buddha Purnima
Buddha purnima is celebrated on the full
moon day in North India.
 Taj Mahotsav
The Taj Mahotsav is celebrated in Agra
for almost ten days.
 Baisakhi
Baisakhi is celebrated as an important day by
the Sikhs in Punjab.
NORTH INDIA - FESTIVALS

Naan Shahi paneer
Rajma chawal Aloo paratha Gulab jamun
Tandoori chicken

TRADITIONAL DANCES
 PUNJAB = BHANGRA

FAMOUS PLACES IN THE NORTH
Mount kailash –
Himachal pradesh
Ladakh lake - Kashmir

Taj Mahal - Agra
India Gate -
Delhi
Golden Temple - Amritsar
Lotus Temple - Delhi

EAST INDIA - FESTIVALS
 Durga puja - Calcuta
 Bihu -
Assam
 Kharchi Puja-tripura
 Cheiraoba - Manipur
As the land around the eastern India
is so majestic and simple, the people,
customs and festivals follows the
same. Festivals form an integral part
of the socio-cultural life of the people
of East India. Most of their festivals
are connected with agriculture as it is
the main occupation of the people

-> Rasogolla
Doi Machch (Sea Food) 
The states of Eastern India get heavy rainfall so rice,
grown in the vast fields here, is a huge part of the local
diet. Fish is very popular in the coastal state of West
Bengal while further inland pork and beef are the meats
of choice.

 Poda Pitha
Sondesh 
Til Barfi
Bihari Litti 

Chhau
Naga Dances
Odissi

SUN TEMPLE -KONARK JAGANNATHTEMPLE
howrah bridge

 Onam -- Harvest
Festival , Kerala
 Vijaya Dashami --
all over south
 Pongal -- Tamil
Nadu
 Makar Sankranthi --
Andhra Pradesh
In South India, festivals
are categorized on the
basis of seasons or few on
the mythology.

Uttapam
Hyderabadi biryani Vada sambar
Masala dosa

Bharatnatyam Kathakali
Kuchipudi Yakshagana

 Gangauar - Rajasthan
 Kite festival- all over West India
 Nagpanchami- all over West
India
 Janmashtami - all over west india
 Ganesh Chaturthi - all over West
India
 Navratri - Gujrat

Shahi Paneer
Malpua
Dhokla
Khandvi
Balchao
Pav BhajiDal batti

Garba
LavaniGhoomar
Raas

Western Thar Desert
- Rajasthan
The Ajanta and Ellora caves
Hawa Mahal -
jaipur
St francis church –
goa

 Indian Art is the visual art produced on the Indian
subcontinent from about the 3rd millennium BCE to
modern times.
 Voluptuous feeling is given unusually free expression in
Indian culture.
 A strong sense of design is also characteristic of Indian
art and can be observed in its modern as well as in its
traditional forms.
 India is now ranked #5 on the list of countries visiting
IDA.
 The art of India is unique, ornate, filled with bright
colors, and rooted in religion and tradition. On this page
you will learn about Indian art of the past as well as the
present.

India has the third largest scientific and
technical manpower in the world;
In the field of Missile Launch
Technology,India is among the top five
nations of the world
India’s progress in space has been very
systematic starting with expiremental
satellites like Aryabhatta, Bhaskara, Apple,
Rohini
In May last year ISRO embarked on the launch
business through PSLV-C2 launch, thereby
creating a strong impact on the global space
market by successfully launching two foreign
satellites along with its own ocean monitoring
remote sensing satellite.
India's first unmanned lunar
probe, launched by the Indian
Space Research Organisation
(ISRO) in October 2008 which
led to strong evidence of the
presence of lunar wate
SCIENCE

 India is the birth place of
algebra, trigonometry and
calculus.
 India invented the decimal
and the Number system
millennia ago
 Zero was invented by the Indian
mathematics, Aryabhatta
 India’s Takshashila University was the world’s first university
wherein more than 10,500 students from all over the world pursued
higher studies in more than 60 subjects
 The value of pi was first calculated by
Budhayana,who actually is the father of the
concept known to the modern world as the
Pythagorean Theorem
 Srinivasa ramanujan, one of India’s greatest
mathematical geniuses postulated and
proved 3542 theorems worked on elliptic
functions, continued fractions and infinite

 The automobile industry in India is the ninth largest in the world. India has
emerged as one of the world's largest manufacturers of small cars..
 India is No.1 : Software development , call center , BPOS , knowledge process
, outsourcing , Youth power , diamond cutting , tea and milk
production
PARAM 10000
The new machine, which is Asia's second
largest supercomputer. It can perform 100
billion flops or floating point operations (steps
in complex mathematical calculations) a second
at peak performance level.
 Sania Mirza, a tennis player is also the first women from the country to have won
the Grand Slam title and won two Grand Slams.
 Viswanathan Anand became the first Indian to be a Grand Master and made
india proud.
 India’s third greatest achievement in sports came when Abhinav Bindra won the
first individual Olympic gold medal in the 2008 edition of the Olympic Games
 Saina Nehwal is the first Indian to win a medal, which was bronze in the
Olympic Games

 India is a very big name in the
world cricket won the Twenty20
Cricket World Cup 2007 and 2011
cricket world cup.
 Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar greatest
indian batsman of the modern
generation, popularly holds the title
"God of Cricket“and “master blaster”.
 38% doctors
 36% NASA SCIENTISTS
 34% MICROSOFT EMPLOYES
 28% IBM EMPLOYEES
 17% INTEL SCIENTIST
 13% XEROX EMPLOYEES

She was the first
Indian-American
astronaut and first
Indian woman in
space.
KALPANA CHAWLASUNITA
WILLIAMS
She holds the records for
longest single space flight
by a woman, total
spacewalks by a woman,
and most spacewalk time
for a woman
In 1984 he became the
first citizen of India to
go into space when he
flew aboard the
Russian rocket Soyuz
T-11.
RAKESH
SHARMA

N. R. Narayana Murthy
is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of
Infosys. He has been described as Father of Indian
IT sector by Time magazine due to his contribution to
outsourcing in India
Sabeer Bhatia
is an Indian American entrepreneur who
founded the Hotmail email service
He is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the
world’s largest steelmaking company. He is second
richest man in Europe and is currently the sixth
richest individual in the world.
Lakshmi Mittal

is an Indian who performed his
first surgery at the age of seven. He
has an estimated IQ of 146
Akrit Pran Jaswal  India's
youngest Surgeon - Child Genius
He took up cricket at the age of eleven,
made his Test debut against Pakistan at
the age of sixteen. At the age of 19 he
became the youngest player to score
1000 test runs, during India's tour of
South Africa
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar  "God of
Cricket“  the greatest batsman of india