INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIA

Introduction• India is most amazing country in the world.

• India is the land of many incredible facts, which are not yet popular and well-known to all the people

• In each and every part of the country, you will find different culture, tradition, food, style

• India is a large country in terms of population & land. So, it is difficult for every person to discover some interesting facts about India

A Floating Post Office

• India’s first floating Post office was on Dal Lake in Srinagar

• It was inaugurated by  Minister of State for Communications & IT, Sachin Pilot & Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah on 22 August 2011

• India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1,55,015 post offices

• Now , the post office is the star attraction for tourists visiting the lake

Rabindranath Tagore wrote national anthem for Bangladesh

• Rabindranath Tagore is credited not only for writing the Indian national anthem,  Jana Gana Mana, but also the Bangladeshi national anthem,  Amar Sonar Bangla, as well• He was also offered knighthood by the British

but refused the honour after the Jalianwala Bagh massacre

Kumbh Mela gathering visible from space

• The largest human gathering in the history of the world, the Maha Kumbh Mela, a spiritual event held every 144 years in Northern India

• The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims

• The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space

•  The festival is expected to attract 70 million people to a sacred location on the Ganges River, 15 km from Allahabad, for more than a month of bathing rituals

The wettest inhabited place in the world

• Mawsynram, a village on the Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world

• The place that records the highest rainfall on the Earth is Maysynram, located in Meghalaya, India.

• Cherrapunji, also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861•  

The highest cricket ground in the world

• The Chail cricket stadium Of Himachal Pradesh is the highest cricket ground in the world.

• Chail is also considered as the hiker's paradise.

• The area is away from the bustling life of the state capital Shimla. In 1891, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala incurred the rage of Lord Kitchener.

•  The Chail Palace is well known for its architecture.

Shampooing is an Indian concept

• Shampoo was invented in India, not the commercial liquid ones but the method by use of herbs. • The word 'shampoo' itself has been derived

from the Sanskrit word champu, which means to massage.

The Indian national Kabaddi team has won All World Cups

• India has won all 5 men's Kabaddi World Cups held till now & have been undefeated throughout these tournaments • The Indian women's team has also won all

Kabaddi World Cups held till date

The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle 

• The first rocket was so light & small that it was transported on a bicycle to the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 

Largest number of vegetarians in the world

• Be it because of religious reasons or personal choices or both, around 20-40% of Indians are vegetarians, making it the largest vegetarian-friendly country in the world. 

The human calculator

• Shakuntla Devi was given this title after she demonstrated the calculation of two 13 digit numbers: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 which were picked at random • She answered correctly within 28 seconds 

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