India, the Bharata is the world's largest democracy. India is the birth place of various wisdom of ancient science, arts and literature along with Ayurveda, and yoga. Ayurveda is considered to be the earliest school of medicine. India invented the number system,arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry and the numeral zero. Yes, India is an astounding, vibrant and incredible land of spirituality too. Many great philosophy, scientific discoveries and traditional arts began in India. After you go through this amazing facts about India, you will surely feel proud of this great land.
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| Interesting Facts About India |
1. Why are India’s heritage sites world famous?
Bharat can be proud of its rich culture and amazing heritage sites. Heritage sites are places of cultural importance or natural heritage described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Today, there are 30 World Heritage Sites in India, out of which 24 are cultural properties and six are natural properties. Some of the most famous include the Ajanta and Ellora caves, the sun temple at Konark, Elephanta Caves and the Taj Mahal.
A visit to our heritage sites gives a breathtaking glimpse into the kaleidoscope of myriads of cultures that make up the wonder that is India.
2. Granite Temple:
3. The Richest Temple:
4. The Land of Peace:
India can be proud of the fact that it has not attempted to conquer a neighbor even those that are much smaller and weaker in the last 1000 years, proving that India is truly a friendly country.
5. Oldest University:
Takshasila in Ancient India is believed to be the oldest university in the world. It existed more than 2700 years age. Over 10,500 students from all across the world came here for higher studies.
6. Largest Temple:
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam, Tamilnadu is the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world . The temple occupies an area of 156 acres, making it the largest temple in India.
7. Longest Corridor:
The outer corridor of the Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram is believed to be the longest of its kind in the world.
8. Oldest City:
The oldest city in the world is believed to be Varanasi, a city on the banks of the River Ganges. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
9. One Horn Rhino:
The great Indian rhino is different from other species of rhinos in one very important way. While animals in the other species have two horns, the great Indian rhino has only one.
10. Handsome Tigers:
White Bengal Tigers are very rare. Their colouring is the result of a defective gene. They are greatly prized for their white fur, blue eyes and exotic beauty.
11. Sanskrit and Computer:
India is land of incredible diversity and this diversity extends to its languages as well. Sanskrit is the most ancient and classical language of India, is the basis of many modern Indian as well as world languages including both Hindi and Urdu. The youngerstars in the USA are learning Sanskrit, as NASA is considering using it as a computer language. The reason according to experts, is that Sanskrit is the language with which a message can be sent by the computer using the least number of words. It is also considered to be the language of most compact form.
12. Diversity of traditional clothing:
Traditional dress in India varies from place to place, from North to South, and from East to West. A person’s dress depends on local culture, geography, climate, and society. Though the sari is a universally recognized attire for woman in India , it is worn in different ways in different parts of the country.
Woman in the North prefer the salwar kameez with a dupatta. Girls in the south wear long skirts along with a blouse.
Men may wear pyjama kurtas and dhoties. In some regions the men wear turbans for formal occasions, in others they go bareheaded, while different types of caps are worn by different communities too. In cities and metros, Western attire is common. Wherever you go, you will notice one thing though-Indians love to dress up with unique style.
13. Food Processing:
India has over 4000 food processing units. Around 20 per cent of the processed foods are exported and of this mangoes and mango based products make up around 50 per cent.
14. Coffee House:
Indians drink a lot of coffee around 125 tonnes in 2013, according to the Coffee Board of India.
15. Bharata:
The name India comes from the Indus River. The official Sanskrit name for India is Bhrata.
16. Indian English:
The largest number of English speaking people in the world is found not in England, but in India. English is the so widely spoken throughout India, that more Indians speak it than the English themselves.
17. Highest Peak:
The highest peak in the world lies in the Himalayas. It is Mount Everest, and it is over 8,848 metres in height.
18. Most populous river basin:
The river Ganges is considered as the longest river in India, and it has the most populated river basin in the world.
19. Favourite Pilgrimage Destination:
The Sri Venkateswara Temple at Tirupati is the most visited pilgrimage destination in the world.
20. J.C.Bose:
Jagadish Chandra Bose, also known as J.C.Bose, was one of the pioneers of modern science in India. He is known for his work on radio and microwave optics, as well as for his research of the properties of electromagnetic waves.
21. Chandrasekhar Limit:
The Chandrasekhar Limit is named for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel prize wining Indian-American. At the age of 19, he calculated the greatest possible mass of a stable cold star, above which it must collapse, and become a black hole. This is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit.
22. Raman effect:
The Raman Effect is the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light bean mis deflected by molecules. The phenomenon is named for Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the scattering of light.
23. Bose and Boson:
The boson – one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particles – is named after satyendra nath Bose, a Bengali physicist. Atoms are made up of subatomic particles, and the naming of this particular particle- which is also called ‘The God Particle’- after Bose , is a great honour to the scientist and to India.
24. Pioneer of Aviation Technology:
Acharya Bharadwaj , who lived in 800 BC, was a pioneer of aviation technology. In his works , he has described three categories of flying machines that travel from one planet to another and, more astonishingly from one Universe to another.
25. Zero contribution:
It is believed that its was India that gave the world the concept of zero. In AD 628, Indian mathematician Brahmagupta developed a symbol for zero , and developed mathematical operations using zero.
26. Yoga the Indian gift to the world:
The word ‘yoga’ comes from the Sanskrit root, ‘yuj’ , which means ‘to yoke’, or to unite the spirit and physical body together. Yoga is an intense form of prayer and worship, as well as a means to lower blood pressure, to increase strength and flexibility, energize the body and calm the mind.
27. Snakes and ladders:
The game of snakes and ladders, which all children love to play, originated in India. The game is said to have been invented by Saint Gyandev in the 13th century and was known as Moksha Patamu.
28. Longest railway Platform:
The world’s longest railway platform is at the Gorakhpur railway station in India. It is over a kilometer long, and measures 1366.33 metres, along with its ramp.
29. Land of dance:
India is one culturally wealthy nation, where approximately every state has its own linguistic forms, food culture and dance. When it comes to dance, India has classical, traditional, folk and tribal dance styles, and all are simply incredible. Indian classical dances have their own spiritual perceptions. They are connected to the cosmology with their unique posture and music. Indian dance basically consists of two styles: classical dance and folk dance. The difference between folk dance and classical dance are the occasions of their performance. There are mainly eight classical dances in India which are Bharatnatyam, Kathakali, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, and Sattriya. Even in India dance is associated with God.
30. Fibbonacci Number:
Acharya Pingala (3rd/2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian mathematician who wrote the Chandaśāstra (also known as Pingala-sutras), the earliest recorded Sanskrit prosody treatise. Pingala's work also includes material related to the Fibonacci numbers, called mātrāmeru. Pingala is credited with using binary numbers in the form of short and long syllables (the latter equal in length to two short syllables), a notation similar to Morse code. Later, the process for the formation of these numbers of mathematicians Virahanka, Gopala and Hemacandra the fascinating sequence were given much before the Italian mathematician Fibonacci introduced to Western European mathematics.
31. In India , women own 11 per cent of the gold in the world:
Indian women hold 11 per cent of the world 's gold. Which is more than the combined German, US, and Switzerland reserves.
32. India had the most World War II volunteers:
Indians made history by having the largest volunteering army in World War II, with a total of 2.5 million volunteers.
33. The theory of Atom:
One of the outstanding scientists of ancient India was Kanad, who was said to have established atomic theory centuries before John Dalton was born. He speculated the existence of Anu or a small indestructible particle, similar to an atom. Kanada proposes that paramanu (atom) is an indestructible particle of matter. The atom is indivisible, since it is a condition that can not be related to any measurement. He used invariance arguments to determine properties of the atoms. He also stated that anu can have two states — absolute rest and a state of motion.
Apart from this Kaṇāda might have already presented the some laws of motion attributed to Newton, as part of the Vaiśeṣika Sutras.
वेगः निमित्तविशेषात कर्मणो जायते। वेगः निमित्तापेक्षात कर्मणो जायते नियतदिक क्रियाप्रबन्धहेतु। वेगः संयोगविशेषविरोधी॥
Meaning, action on objects generates motion. The external action being direction causes the motion to be directional. An equal and opposite action can neutralize the motion.
34. Programming language:
Kojo is a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for computer programming and learning. Kojo is an open-source software. It was created, and is actively developed, by Lalit Pant, a computer programmer and teacher living in Dehradun, India.
35. World's Largest Vaccine Producer:
Serum Institute of India is the world's largest vaccine producer by number of doses produced. Each year, the company produces around 1.3 billion doses of vaccines. It was founded by Cyrus Poonawalla in 1966
The company has tied up with pharma firm AstraZeneca to develop the COVID-19 vaccine, in partnership with Oxford University. It is reported that Serum Institute would provide 1 billion doses of the vaccine in India and other low and middle-income countries.
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