This is INDIA!

What does India mean to you, outside of the textbook clichés, behind the humdrum headlines? Listen to your nation’s pulsing heartbeat, tap into its unnoticed nervous system, peer into the fragments of its soul hardwired into each one of us. Capture the vibrant contrasts, the stunning surprises, the staple of smiles and tears that enriches our lives, and makes it meaningful for us to be Indian. Submit your best photographs that shout out the declaration: “This is India!”

One flag to drape us all: Lest we forget, India existed only in the minds of its founding fathers till 1947, when it was stitched together under the garb of geographical closeness. Not all states and union territories were in favor of losing their sovereignty to this newly formed country. Hyderabad, where this picture is shot; violently resisted, until it was forcefully brought under the umbrella of India in 1948 when the armed forces coerced the Nizam into surrendering.

Yahoo! India wants your most evocative photographs of India. Send us your pictures and we will pick the best of them on in.yahoo.com! The rules are simple: Make sure that all photos are of high resolution / quality. Take care not to crop photos. 
Upload your pictures to Flickr.com and add them to the “This is INDIA!” Flickr group.