India Presentation 8

Traditional Indian Marriage Celebration

Family: 5 generations living together • A bonding of two individuals • Understanding • Commitment • Mutual love • Spiritual growth • Arranged marriages are common

• Divorce rate - 1.1% (2006) • 7.41 per 1,000 (1991)

Hurley, Nayar celebrate marriage in India

Mangalsutra - The Sacred Symbol of Marriage • A sacred thread of love and goodwill • A necklace worn specifically by married women as a symbol of their marriage • In Hindu, traditional marriage is not just about celebration and fun it demands - sacrifice - companionship - dedication - surrender by both the partners • Each and every rituals and customs associated with marriage portrays the real essence of wedding

Bindi

Traditional Indian Marriage Celebration • Sacred fire in to which the offerings of the puffed rice is being made by the couple jointly while chanting mantras • The offerings are for propitiation and for wellbeing. Puffed rice is only a token. • The pendants worn by the couple on their fore head during the wedding ceremony are of flowers or beads or pearls

Kanyadaan

Oath taking Ceremony (for next 7 Lives)

Amitabh to mentor Johnny Depp in Shantaram

"Legion d'Honneur" by the Ambassador of France in India

India has the LARGEST film industry in the world

Aishwarya Rai: The World's Most Beautiful Woman?

Queen of Bollywood - TIME

http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/35/aishwarya_rai

• There are over 17,000 websites devoted to her. • Living With Your Parent • Ganesha

Indians of note

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) • Poet and writer of National anthem of India • Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 “Oneness amongst men, the advancement of unity in diversity – this has been the core religion of India”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

1966: Martin Luther King was a student of Mahatma Gandhi's extraordinarily successful nonviolent methods of civil protest

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 – 1970) • An Indian physicist • 1930 = Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him

Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858 – 1937)

• The first Indian to get a US patent in 1904 • USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless-radio communication was Professor Jagdish Chandra Bose and not Guglielmo Marconi

Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974) • Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics • He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate. • He is honored as the namesake of the boson

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (1887 – 1920) • A definite example of an autodidact prodigy, Ramanujan compiled an estimated 3,900 theorems during his short lifetime • With almost no formal training in mathematics, he made substantial contributions in the areas of special functions and definite integrals, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 – 1995) • An Indian-American astrophysicist • In 1999, NASA named the third of its four "Great Observatories'" after Chandrasekhar • The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999 • This followed a naming contest which attracted 6,000 entries from fifty states and sixty-one countries • The asteroid 1958 Chandra is also named after Chandrasekhar

Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922) • Lasker Award, 1967 • Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1968 • (shared with Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) • For his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis • National Medal of Science 1987 • He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States serving on the MIT Chemistry faculty

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933)

• An Indian economist • Philosopher • Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998