5. North India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important festivals :
Rakshabandhan - celebrated all over
North India
Lohri - Punjab
Holi - celebrated all over North India
Vaisakhi - Punjab
Hemis - Jammu & Kashmir
9. Famous places of the North
Mount Kailash - Himalayas
Taj Mahal - Agra
Ladakh Lake - Kashmir
Famous places In the North
10. India Gate - New Delhi
Lotus Temple - Delhi.
Golden Temple - Amritsar,
Punjab.
11. Great Indians from North
The First Prime Minister of India.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kalpana Chawla
Har Gobind Khorana
1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine
NASA Astronaut
12. East India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important Festivals :
Durga pooja - Calcutta
Bihu - Assam
Kharchi Puja - Tripura
Chapchar Kut - Mizoram
Cheiraoba - Manipur
Moastu - Nagaland
17. Great Indians from East
Mother Teresa
Bharat Ratna, Noble Laureate for Peace.
Vivekananda
Most Famous and Influential Spiritual
Leaders of Philosophy.
Poet and Writer of India’s National
Anthem and Nobel Prize for Literature in
1913.
Rabindranath Tagore
18. 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
19. South India - Culture, Festivals & The People
Important festivals :
Onam - harvest festival, Kerala.
Vijayadashami (Dussehra) – Karnataka
Pongal - Tamilnadu
Sankranthi - Andhra Pradesh
23. Tirupathi - one of the richest and
most visited religious centers in the
world.
Ooty - Udagamandalam
Famous places In the South
Mysore Palace
24. Meenakshi Temple - Madurai
“Gods Own Country”,
Kerala
The Charminar - Hyderabad
25. Great Indians from South
Srinivasa Ramanujam
Great Indian Mathematician
Sir C.V. Raman
1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics for
work on scattering of light and Raman
effect.
A . P. J. Abdul Kalam (Missile Man of India)
Current President - Scientist and an Engineer
26. M. S. Subbulakshmi
Renowned Carnatic Vocalist.
Vishwanath Anand
International Chess Grandmaster.
Sarojini Naidu (The Nightingale of India)
Freedom Fighter and Poetess.
27. 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
30. Western Thar Desert, Rajasthan
Hawa Mahal - "Palace of Winds"
Jaipur
The Ajanta and Ellora caves
Famous places In the West
31. The Famous Goa Beach
Gir National Park Bollywood
Mount Abu - Rajasthan
St Francis Church Goa
32. Vinoba Bhave
National Teacher of India
Great Indians from West
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“Father of Nation”
Amitabh Bachchan
Famous Bollywood Actor
33. Lata Mangeshkar
World’s Foremost Indian Vocalist
Sania Mirza
Indian Tennis Player
Azim Hashim Premji
Indian businessman and richest
person in the country
35. "Oneness amongst men, the
advancement of unity in
diversity – this has been the
core religion of India”.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet and writer of India’s national anthem
and Nobel laureate in literature in 1913,
(18611941) :