This document provides an overview of India through various dates, facts, and figures. It discusses India's status as the largest democracy and third world country, its growing economy and middle class, and its standing as a spiritual hotspot and nuclear state. It also highlights several influential Indian business leaders and their companies, such as Ratan Tata of Tata Group, Lakshmi Mittal and his largest steel company, and Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel. In addition, it mentions prominent Indians working for international companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Citibank.
5. Largest Democracy
Most environmentally polluting
Country of naked saints & snake char
Secular State
Hindu Country Spiritual hotspot for hippies
Most English usersBombing hotspot for terrorists
Pakistan haters Fastest growing economy in the world
The land of Gandhi
Most ancient surviving culture
English colony Land of awesomely rich kings
Third World Country country that took my job
The
33. Tata buys Jaguar + Land Rover from Ford
$ 2.3 billion
quot;It's a little bit like Wal-Mart buying Prada.quot;
-- Rebecca Linden, Analyst at Global Insight
66. We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved
to constitute India into a sovereign secular
democratic republic and to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and
worship;
EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual
and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
In our Constituent Assembly this twenty-sixth day of
November, 1949, do hereby adopt, enact and give
ourselves this Constitution.
67. Multiparty system 7 : 41
Parliamentary system Prime Minister
Nuclear state 1974 - 1998
G-20 Member
No seat on the UN Security Council
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70. Character-crisis in socio-political lead
Growing communal schism
corruption
Proliferation of ethnic political parties
Degeneration of national politics
Inefficient public sector
Moral decay of the masses
Hung Parliament
Loss of faith in judiciary
71. White
5000+ year-old caste system
Rich
Galloping towards wealth
Christian
Multi-religion / caste / race
Single dominant language
28 widely spoken languages
72. The reason India is so important
to the history and practice of
democracy is its success in
making a system of
representative government work
in a bewilderingly diverse
country.
81. Special Economic Zones
... deemed to be foreign territory for the
purposes of trade operations, duties and
tariffs ...
500 sanctioned - 220 in operation