Independence Day Greetings | Independence Day Patriotic Songs & Wallpapers

•	Snippets & Interesting Info
•	Gallery
•	Wallpapers
•	Special Articles
•	Jawaharlal Nehru and the War Years
•	Where the Nehrus Lived
•	Of Revolts and Conspiracies
•	The Satyagrahi
•	Darkness at Noon
•	The Brave heart
•	The Educator
•	The French Colony that Fought the British
•	The Frontier Gandhi
•	The Great Escape
•	The Princess Who Led Protest Rallies
•	The Mahatma's abode
•	The Queen's Final Battle
•	The Royal Arch
•	Shaheed Bhagat Singh Biography
•	Tryst with Destiny
•	The Tiger of Mysore's own den
•	Where the Flag was Raised
•	In Birsa Munda's Kingdom
•	The Nightingale of India
•	Bridging the Communal Divide
•	Freedom ... to be
•	The Mahatma and the Masses
•	The Speech That Defined A Nation
•	Swaraj he said, was his Birthright
•	The Iron Man of India
•	Freedom FOR THE Patrotic
•	The great India Truth
Kids Special
•	Mother India Speaks
•	64th Independence Day

	Snippets & Interesting Info
1.	India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2.	India invented the Number system. Aryabhatta invented 'zero.'
3.	The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 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.
4.	Sanskrit- the thousand year old Indian language, is the most suitable language for computer software, according to the Forbes magazine
5.	. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6.	India was once the richest empire on earth. The western media portray modern images of India as poverty-stricken and underdeveloped through political corruption.
7.	The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8.	The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have in 1999 officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6th Century, which is long before the European mathematicians.
9.	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.
10.	According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11.	USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagadish Chandra Bose and not Marconi.
12.	The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13.	Chess was invented in India.
14.	Sushruta was the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like rhinoplasty, cesarean sections, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India.
15.	When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers Indians over 5000 years ago, established the Harappan culture in the SindhuValley (IndusValley Civilisation).
16.	The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

	Quotes about India
1.	Albert Einstein: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
2.	Mark Twain: 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.
3.	Romain Rolland- the famrd French scholar: 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.
4.	Hu Shih - (Former Chinese ambassador to the USA): India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
	Supplying over 30 lakh Indian flags each year

	As the country gears up to celebrate 60 years of Independence, the Indian tricolour is getting finishing stitches at Mumbai's oldest flag manufacturing unit. Gaffar Sheikh along with many other craftsmen at Mumbai's Khadi Gramudyog are working overtime ensure that the required number of flags are ready on time. Three generations of Sheikh’s family have been in the flag-making business and they say that the standard criteria specified for flag-making is painstakingly followed by all the craftsmen. “I feel proud that I make these flags. I actually feel that I'm serving the nation,” Sheikh says. Started way back in 1946, this flag manufacturing unit is the only one in Western India, supplying over 30 lakh Indian flags each year. With the demand increasing every year, the tallest flag, which is at 14 feet, costs about Rs 7,000 and the smallest flag at six inches is priced at Rs 60. “All institutions, Collector's office and ministries take flags from us,” curator of the Khadi Gramudyog Sangh, Shashikant Shah says. As the patriotic fervour builds up before the Independence Day, for these craftsmen, it will soon be time to take up another tall order – January 26. And Sheikh’s vision for a better India is to see that each Indian wears and flaunts the National Flag not just for a day, but through the year.