Independence Day

1. Lets remember the sacrifice of our freedom fighters at least for one day and lets forever be proud to be an INDIAN !!! Let us celebrate our Independence and Independence day... So let me be the first one to wish u...

4. This is our 60th Independence Day! Freedom is a Great Feeling! Let's be proud to feel this Freedom!! Let's say aloud we are INDIANS!!! Let all of us get together & Celebrate Our Freedom

6. It is our duty to preserve this Freedom! & carry it forward to the Future! Start the celebration by sharing your Joy !! Vande Mataram !!

7. Ghandhiji Addressing people

8. Punjab,1947

9. Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946

10. Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947

11. Memories... Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

12. TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees – Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan – were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

13. A Library being divided at the time of partition. Heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to Imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.

14. 1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

15. 1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

16. 1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of military and diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.

18. Happy Independence Day!!! Proud To Be An Indian. naushadme/slideshare.net

19. Vandae Madaram

20. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems ? Mr. Vinod Khosla Who is the creator of Pentium chip (90% of the today's computers run on it) ? Mr. Vinod Dham Who is the third richest man on the world ? According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, He is Premji who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (World's No. 1 web based E-Mail program)? Mr. Sabeer Bhatia later on sold to Microsoft. Below mentioned facts, which will make you proud to be

21. Mr. Arun Netravalli Mr. Rajiv Gupta Mr. Sanjay Tejwrika Who are the Chief Executives of Citibank, Mckensey & Standard Charted? Mr. Victor Menezes, Mr. Rajat Gupta and Mr. Rana Talwar Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, UNIX to name a few)? Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard? Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000 , responsible to iron out all initial problems?

22. o YET, 38% of doctors in USA are INDIAN s. o 12% scientists in USA are INDIAN s. o 36% of NASA scientists are INDIAN s. o 34% of Microsoft employees are INDIAN s. o 28% of IBM employees are INDIAN s. o 17% of INTEL scientists are INDIAN s. o 13% of XEROX employees are INDIAN s. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives: There are 3.22 Millions of INDIAN s in USA ( 1.5 % of population ).

23. Quotes about India: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made" Albert Einstein . "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition" --Mark Twain . "If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India" --French scholar Romain Rolland

24.  India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.  India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented zero .  The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC . More than 10500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. § The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. § According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software. These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA  Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

25. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem . British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus came from India. Quadratic Equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.

26. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra . Chess was invented in India. Sushruta is the father of surgery . 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones . Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago , Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization ). The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border" Hu Shih (former Chinese Ambassador to USA) If we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential , and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

27. Vandae Madaram