THIS PPT IS FOR TRAVEL AS WELL AS EDUCATIONA PURPOSES

1. INDIA

2. ABOUT INDIA
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the
second-most populous country, the seventh-largest country by land
area, and the most populous democracy in the world.

3. CAPITAL OF INDIA
• New Delhi, national capital of India. It is situated in the north-central
part of the country on the west bank of the Yamuna River, adjacent to
and just south of Delhi city (Old Delhi) and within the Delhi national
capital territory.

4. WHERE IS BOLLYWOOD?
Today's Wonder of the Day is going to take a
closer look at one country in particular:
India. India's national cinema industry goes
by a much more popular name: Bollywood.
The name is obviously a play on the word
Hollywood. The “B" comes from the Indian
city of Bombay, which is now called Mumbai.

5. INDIAN YOUTUBERS
AAYU AND PIHU SHOW
MY MISS ANAND
SAMREEN ALI
TOY STARS

6. CAPITAL OF STATES OF INDIA
S.no States Capitals
1 Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad (Proposed Cap
ital Amaravati)
2 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar
3 Assam Dispur
4 Bihar Patna
5 Chhattisgarh Raipur
6 Goa Panaji
7 Gujarat Gandhinagar
8 Haryana Chandigarh
9 Himachal Pradesh Shimla
10 Jharkhand Ranchi

7. CAPITAL OF STATES OF INDIA
11 Karnataka
Bengaluru (formerly Bang
alore)
12 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram
13 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
14 Maharashtra Mumbai
15 Manipur Imphal
16 Meghalaya Shillong
17 Mizoram Aizawl
18 Nagaland Kohima
19 Odisha Bhubaneswar
20 Punjab Chandigarh

8. CAPITAL OF STATES OF INDIA
21 Rajasthan Jaipur
22 Sikkim Gangtok
23 Tamil Nadu Chennai
24 Telangana Hyderabad
25 Tripura Agartala
26 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow
27 Uttarakhand
Dehradun, Gairsain (Summe
r)
28 West Bengal Kolkata

9. WHERE IS BOLLYWOOD?
•Mumbai
•Bollywood is the popular nickname given to
mainstream Hindi-language films. Mostly based
out of Mumbai, every year Bollywood creates at
least 800 films and sells four billion tickets. Yes,
four billion! And this is only a small part of the
larger Indian film industry.

11. NATIONAL EMBLEM

12. NATIONAL FLAG – TIRANGA

13. NATIONAL ANTHEM – JANA GANA MANA

14. NATIONAL SONG – VANDE MATRAM

15. NATIONAL LANGUAGE – HINDI

16. NATIONAL ANIMAL – TIGER

17. NATIONAL BIRD – PEACOCK

18. NATIONAL FLOWER – LOTUS

19. NATIONAL TREE – BANYAN TREE

20. NATIONAL FRUIT – MANGO

21. NATIONAL CURRENCY – RUPEE

22. NATIONAL RIVER – GANGA

23. GREAT INDIAN PEOPLE

24. ARYABHATTA
INVENTED ZERO

25. MAHATMA GANDHI
FATHER OF THE NATION
EMBODIMENT OF NON- VIOLENCE

26. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
CHAMPION OF HUMANITARIANISM

27. RAMANUJAM
GREAT INDIAN MATHEMATICIAN
POSTULATES AND PROVED 3,542 THEOREMS

28. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
WROTE THE NATION ANTHEM
1913 – NOBEL PRIZE IN LITRETURE

29. C.V RAMAN
1930 – NOBEL LAUREATE IN PHYSICS
WORK ON SCATTERING OF LIGHT AND RAMAN EFFECT

30. MATHER TERESA
1979 – NOBEL PRIZE IN PEACE

32. 45 FOLK DANCES

33. 7 CLASSIAL DANCE FORMS

34. BHARATNATYAM

35. KATHAK

36. KATHAKALI

37. KUCHIPUDI

38. ODISSI

39. CELEBRATES MORE THAN 60 FESTIVELS

40. PLACE OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE

41. TIRUMALA - TRIPURA
WORLD’S RICEST TEMPLE

42. SAINT THOMAS CATHEDRAL
STATUE OF VIRGIN MARY BROUT FROM PORTUGAL IN 1543

43. GOLDEN TEMPLE

44. JAMMA MASJID
THE BIGGEST MOSQUE IN INDIA

45. THOUSAND PILLAR TEMPLE

46. GATWAY OF INDIA

47. JANTAR MANTAR - 1716
MODERNISTIC STRUCTURE TO OBSERVE THE MOVEMENT OF STARS

48. MYSORE PALACE
ILLUMINATED BY 97,000 LIGHT BULBS

49. BUDDHA STATUE
LARGEST MONOLITHIC STATUE IN ASIA

50. DAL LAKE
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF KASHMIR

51. TAJ MAHAL

52. CALCUTTA – CITY OF JOY

53. CHERRAPUNJI
WETTEST PLACE ON EARTH

54. FACTS
•Cows are considered sacred. ...
•India is the wettest inhabited place on Earth. ...
•India has over 300,000 mosques and over 2
million Hindu temples. ...
•Chenab Bridge is the highest rail bridge in the
world. ...
•Rajasthan has a Temple of Rats.