Mera Bharat Mahan.

Today Is no Independence Day or Replublic Day.Its just another lousy weekend.To jazz up the weekend and blow your minds away,here’s a compilation of amazing unknown facts about our Great Nation India.

• India has the world’s second largest train network, and it is the largest civilian employer.
• India has a spa for elephants
• Having been visited by Buddha in 500 B.C. Varanasi is the oldest continuously habituated city in the world.
• Only 3% of Indians pay income tax.

• The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat Ganarajya. Even today, it is often called Bharat by young and old.
• Because so many Indians speak English, India now has the largest population of English speakers in the world.
• There are 27 UNESCO heritage sites in India.These protected areas help to protect the long culture and history of the country.
• The Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) is a huge Hindu religious festival that takes place in India every 12 years. In 2001, 60 million people attended, breaking the record for the world’s biggest gathering. The mass of people was photographed by a satellite.
• That it is illegal for a child in india to neglect their parents after their retirement.( Thank god it exists )
• The banyan, or Indian fig tree, is considered a symbol of immortality and is mentioned in many Indian myths and legends. This self-renewing plant is India’s national tree.(I bet you never knew that we had a national plant too)
• Most historians agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.
• Raziya Sultana (1205-1240) was the first woman leader of India. She was considered a great leader, though she ruled for only three years before being murdered.
• London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi. Britain also has the largest Indian restaurant in the world, The Aakash, which can seat up to 750 people in one sitting
• Significantly more people in India have access to a phone than they do to a toilet.
• India has the lowest meat consumption per person in the world; Luxembourg eats the most.
• India has an Ice Hockey team and they are even member of International Ice Hockey Federation.WOW.
• India’s Has floating Post office.
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