1. What we love about India _______ A quick pictorial guide to tell you a lot about our country and its culture in 10 minutes, so when you visit, you’ll know so much more about us ! Bollywood • Fashion • Cricket • Festivals • Taj Mahal • Ajanta Caves • Business Leaders • Monsoons • Weddings • Rajasthan • Kerala • Food • Animal Handlers • Singers •

2. Bollywood: Mumbai’s movie industry, creates more than 1,000 films per year averaging 3 hours (versus 700 movies averaging 1.5 hours produced annually by Hollywood). Bollywood sells 3.6 billion tickets around the world (versus 2.6 billion sold by Hollywood).

3. Amitabh Bacchan: India’s legendary actor is known to four generations of Indians. He was named BBCs “Man of the Century” beating out Einstein and Gandhi

4. Aishwarya Rai: Often called “The Most Beautiful Woman in The World”. Lead actress in Bollywood, face of L’Oreal and Miss World 1994

5. Shahrukh Khan: Lead actor. Also known as the “Badshah” or Emperor of Bollywood.

6. Lata Mangeshkar: Lata is one of India’s many singing legends. Called the “Nightingale of India”. She has held the the Guinness World Record for reportedly singing tens of thousands of songs in a career spanning 60 years. She is still singing. Add to her Subbalaxmi, Kishore Kumar, Rafi, and see Lil Champs, the American Idol for little children and you will understand the skills, talents and obsession with singing

7. India is a cricket crazy nation. During an important match, the entire country comes to a standstill, making it an advertisers dream. India-Pakistan cricketing rivalry is unparalleled in world sport. India is currently the holder of the Twenty Twenty World Cup and Runner-up in the Last World Cup. In 2008, the $2 billion Indian Premier League was created.

8. Sachin Tendulkar (batting in photo) is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the highest scorer in one day matches, and 2 nd highest scorer in 5-day matches of all time. When Sachin bats, the nation stops to watch. A popular saying in India is “Cricket is my religion and Tendulkar is my God”

9. Taj Mahal: Built by Shah Jahan in memory of his wife. Completed after 12 years in 1648.

10. The Ajanta caves is a UNESCO heritage site that is astonishing in the way it was created. 30 large rooms were created by carving into a single massive mountain of rock. Elephants, Buddha, people, animals, birds gigantic pillars, all carved with bare hands around 2 BC.

26. These pictures or presentation is not intended for any commercial use. They were all taken from the Internet. Thanks to all those photographers who created these amazing photos. Share the passion for the nation. Pass it to your friends ! [email_address]