4. The Seven Classical Dance Forms
Kathak
Manipuri
Mohini Attam
One of the most enduring
symbols of India is the figure of
Kuchipudi
Kathakali
NATARAJA
Odissi
Bharatnatyam
5. Languages of India
Urdu
Punjabi Hindi
Rajastha Assamese
ni Sanskrit Bengal
Gujara i
ti Oriya
Marathi
Telegu
Konkani
Tamil
Kannada
Malayalam
6. North India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important festivals :
Lohri - Punjab
Holi - celebrated all over North India
Vaisakhi - Punjab
Hemis - Jammu & Kashmir
Rakshabandhan - celebrated all over
North India
10. Famous placesthe North
Famous places of In the North
Mount Kailash - Himalayas Ladakh Lake - Kashmir
Taj Mahal - Agra
11. India Gate - New Delhi
"Lotus Temple“ - Delhi.
Golden Temple - Amritsar,
Punjab.
12. Great Indians
Jawaharlal Nehru
The First Prime Minister of India.
Kalpana Chawla
NASA Astronaut
Har Gobind Khorana
1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
13. East India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important Festivals :
Durga pooja - Calcutta
Bihu - Assam
Kharchi Puja - Tripura
Cheiraoba - Manipur
Chapchar Kut - Mizoram
Moastu - Nagaland
16. Famous places In the East
Darjeeling – Tea Estate
Howrah Bridge
Kalighat Kali Temple
17. Sun Temple, Konark
Jagannath Temple, Konark Temple
Puri
Mukteswar Temple Wheel of Konark
Rajarani Temple, Temple
Bhubaneswar
18. Great Indians
Mother Teresa
Bharat Ratna, Noble Laureate for Peace.
Vivekananda
Most Famous and Influential Spiritual
Leaders of Philosophy.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet and Writer of India’s National
Anthem and Nobel Prize for Literature in
1913.
19. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian poet, Novelist and the author of
Vande Mataram
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Physicist, who pioneered the
investigation of radio and microwave
optics.
Amartya Sen
1998 - The Nobel Prize for Economics
20. South India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important festivals :
Onam - harvest festival, Kerala.
Vijayadashami (Dussehra) – Karnataka
Sankranthi - Andhra Pradesh
Pongal - Tamilnadu
24. Famous places In the South
Tirupathi - one of the richest and
most visited religious centers in the
world.
Ooty - Udagamandalam
Mysore Palace
25. Meenakshi Temple - Madurai
“Gods Own Country”,
Kerala
The Charminar - Hyderabad
26. Great Indians
A . P. J. Abdul Kalam (Missile Man of India)
Current President - Scientist and an Engineer
Srinivasa Ramanujam
Great Indian Mathematician
Sir C.V. Raman
1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics for
work on scattering of light and Raman
effect.
27. Vishwanath Anand
International Chess Grandmaster.
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Renowned Carnatic Vocalist.
Sarojini Naidu (The Nightingale of India)
Freedom Fighter and Poetess.
28. West India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important Festivals :
Gangaur - Rajasthan
Kite festival – All over west India
Nagpanchami – All over West India
Janmashtami – All over West India
Ganesh Chaturthi - Maharashtra
Navratri - Gujarat
31. Famous places In the West
The Ajanta and Ellora caves
Western Thar Desert, Rajasthan
Hawa Mahal - "Palace of Winds"
Jaipur
32. The Famous Goa Beach St Francis Church Goa
Gir National Park Mount Abu - Rajasthan Bollywood
33. Great Indians
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“Father of Nation”
Vinoba Bhave
National Teacher of India
Amitabh Bachchan
Famous Bollywood Actor
34. Sania Mirza
Indian Tennis Player
Azim Hashim Premji
Indian businessman and richest
person in the country
Lata Mangeshkar
World’s Foremost Indian Vocalist