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    This document provides an overview of India, highlighting its long history and cultural diversity as well as its modern achievements and status as a global power. Some key points: - India has over 5,000 years of civilization with 18 official languages and hundreds of dialects. - It is the largest democracy and has the 4th largest economy in the world, with a fast-growing IT sector. - India has a large pool of scientists and engineers and is becoming self-reliant in areas like space exploration and supercomputing. - It produces over 200,000 engineering graduates annually and has strong research institutions. - Indians have risen to top positions in many global companies and organizations. - India has a rich cultural

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    This document provides an overview of India, highlighting its long history and cultural diversity as well as its modern achievements and status as a global power. Some key points: - India has over 5,000 years of civilization with 18 official languages and hundreds of dialects. - It is the largest democracy and has the 4th largest economy in the world, with a fast-growing IT sector. - India has a large pool of scientists and engineers and is becoming self-reliant in areas like space exploration and supercomputing. - It produces over 200,000 engineering graduates annually and has strong research institutions. - Indians have risen to top positions in many global companies and organizations. - India has a rich cultural

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    INDIA

    Mera Bharat Mahaan


    Presented By:
    Govind Singh Kushwaha

    Sare Jahan Se Acha, HINDUSTA


    Hamara.

    GREATNESS OF INDIA
    5,000 year old civilization
    18 official languages
    325 local languages 1,652 dialects
    29 states, 5 union territories
    3.28 million sq. kilometers - Area
    7,516 kilometers Coastline
    Parliamentary form of Government

    World largest democracy


    4th largest economy.
    Fastest Growing IT super power.
    3rd largest standing army force.
    2nd largest pool of scientists and engineers in

    the
    world.
    Indian railways , the biggest employer in the world.
    2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
    5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world.

    India: Self-Reliance

    India is among six countries that


    launch satellites and do so even for
    Germany, Belgium, South Korea,
    Singapore and EU countries.
    India's INSAT is among the world's
    largest domestic satellite
    communication systems.
    Kalpana Chawla was one of the
    seven astronauts in the Columbia
    space shuttle
    when it
    disintegrated over Texas skies just
    16 minutes before its scheduled
    landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the
    second Indian in space.

    India built its own Supercomputer


    after the USA in 1987.

    India is among the 3 countries in the


    World that have built Supercomputers
    on their own. The other two countries
    being USA and Japan.

    Indias new PARAM Padma


    Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion
    processes per sec.) is also amongst
    only 4 nations in the world to have
    this capability.

    India: R&D Labs


    R&D Centre

    Highlights

    Established in 1984. Working on VLSI and embedded software, which goes along
    with a chip or into the chip.
    R&D Centre, Bangalore

    India Development Centre,


    Bangalore, Hyderabad.
    India Engineering Centre,
    Bangalore

    Software Lab,
    Bangalore, Pune.

    Oracles largest development centre outside the US currently has 6,000 staff. Does
    work on Oracle's database products, applications, business intelligence products
    and application development tools, besides other activities.

    Established in mid-1999. Does work mainly on Sun's software which includes


    Solaris and Sun One.
    Established in 2001. Works on all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus,
    Tivoli and Rational.

    Established in November 1998. It is the largest single-location R&D lab for SAP
    outside Walldorf, Germany. Nearly 10 percent of SAP's total R&D work is carried
    out from the Indian lab.
    Labs India, Bangalore.
    Established in 1996. Works on developing software for Philips products. It is the
    largest software centre for Philips outside Holland.
    Innovation Campus, Bangalore.

    India: Technology Superpower

    Indias telecom infrastructure between Chennai, Mumbai and Singapore,


    provides the largest bandwidth capacity in the world.

    With more than 250 universities, 1,500 research institutions and 10,428
    higher-education institutes, India produces 200,000 engineering
    graduates and another 300,000 technically trained graduates every year.

    Besides, another 2 million other graduates qualify out in India annually.

    The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is among the top three


    universities from which McKinsey & Company, the world's biggest
    consulting firm, hires most.

    India, has the highest working population in the World.

    Indians abroad
    A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global businesses
    The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla),
    Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm),
    Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia),
    Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta)
    President and CFO of Pepsi Cola (Indra Nooyi)
    President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta)
    GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta)
    President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal)
    Chief Executive of CitiBank (Victor Menezes),
    Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar)
    Chief Executive officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin)
    President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali)
    Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta)
    Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan)

    Indians in the USA.


    Statistics that show:
    38% of doctors in the USA,
    12% of scientists in the USA,
    36% of NASA scientists,
    34% of Microsoft employees,
    28% of IBM employees,
    17% of INTEL scientists,
    13% of XEROX employees,
    are Indians.

    William H. Gates, Chairman and Chief


    Software Architect Microsoft
    Corporation
    (b-1955):
    after the Chinese, South Indians are the smartest people
    in the world.

    Great Indian
    Personalities

    Aryabhatta- Invented the Zero

    Mahatma Gandhi- Father of the nation


    Embodiment of Non- Violence

    Swami Vivekananda- Champion of


    humanitarianism

    Rabindranath Tagore
    1913 Nobel Prize in Literature

    Mother Teresa
    1979 Nobel Prize in Peace

    India's history goes back to 3,200 BC when


    Hinduism was first founded. Buddhism,
    Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity and Islam
    all exist within the country today.

    The Great Indian Epics

    Ramayana
    The first Indian epic

    Mahabharata

    Longest Epic in world


    literature with 100,000
    two-line stanzas

    Worlds first university in Takshila 700 B.C


    Ayurveda- earliest school of medicine known to humans

    Yoga- Gift given to world by India


    in 5000B.C.

    Kalarippayat- Origin of Martial arts 200 BC

    The origin of kung-fu begins with the legend of


    a monk named Bodhidharma (also known as
    Ta Mo) who travelled from India to China
    around 500 A.D.

    DANCE FORMS

    Bharata Natyam
    Kathak

    Kathakali

    Mohini

    Kuchipudi

    Manipuri

    Odissi

    More than 15 vocal forms

    More than 60 music instruments

    Places Of World-Wide Fame

    Tirumala - Tirupati
    Worlds richest temple

    The Golden Temple

    Jamma Masjid
    The biggest mosque in India

    The Gateway of India

    Jantar Mantar
    Modernistic structures to
    observe the movement of stars
    Mysore Palace
    Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs

    Dal Lake
    Jewel in the crown of Kashmir

    The Taj Mahal

    Cherrapunji
    Wettest place on earth

    Progress during the last 25 years


    Poverty
    1980s

    1990s

    2005

    44%

    36%

    26%

    Education (literacy rate)


    1980s

    1990s

    2005

    44%

    52%

    65%

    Health (life expectancy)


    1980s

    1990s

    2005

    56%

    60%

    69%
    Source: World Bank (2006)

    Secular Tolerance
    "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."

    Jai Hind

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