Cows are considered sacred
If hamburgers are a regular part of your diet, you’ll need to make some adjustments before visiting India! Cows are protected by their own set of rules in the Constitution, making killing a cow a crime. Even on crowded city streets, cows have the liberty to roam where they please without fear of being harassed by humans.
Thousands of languages are spoken all over India
There are 22 recognized languages, with Hindi and English being the official languages. However, other commonly-spoken languages include Bengali (the second most spoken language), Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, and Punjabi. There are as many as 19,500 known languages and dialects across the country.
The wettest inhabited place in the world
A village on the Khaki Hills, Meghalaya, receives the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. CRP also a part of Meghalaya, holds the record for the most rainfall in the calendar year of 1861.
Rajasthan has a Temple of Rats
The animal wonders of India continue. Although rats might not be the first species you think of to worship, there is a temple in Rajasthan dedicated to rats. Thousands of rats call the temple home, making it one of the country’s unique attractions. Many pilgrims visit the temple every year on their religious journeys, so make sure to be respectful of local customs when visiting.
Science Day in Switzerland is dedicated to Ex-Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam
The father of India’s missile program visited Switzerland back in 2006. Upon his arrival, Switzerland declared May 26th as Science Day.
Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, is the most popular religion in India.
Nearly 80% of the Indian population follows Hinduism. Islam is the second most popular, (14.2%), then Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), and Jainism (0.4%)
India was the first country to mine diamond
From the 4th century BC for around 1,000 years, India was the only source of diamonds in the world. The original diamonds were found in the Krishna River Delta. In the 18th century, more diamond deposits were discovered in Brazil, and soon after, in South Africa, adding to the market of diamonds.
Chess was invented in India.
One of the oldest games in the world that is still played, the popular game was invented around the 6th Century AD.
A floating post office
India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in DAL Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011
Festival gathering visible from space
The 2011 Hindu festival was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space.
The highest cricket ground in the world
At an altitude of 2,444 meters, the CHAIC Cricket Ground in CHAIC, Himachal Pradesh, is the highest in the world. It was built in 1893 and is a part of the CHAIC Military School.
INDIA HAS THE THIRD-HIGHEST AMOUNT OF BILLIONAIRES IN THE WORLD
India is a country that has a huge amount of wealth inequality. In 2019, it was estimated that the richest 10% of the Indian population owned around 80.7% of the wealth and that the top 1% of the population earned 21% of the country’s total income. This makes even more sense when you see that India has the third-highest number of billionaires in the world – behind the USA and China. In total, India claims to have nearly 7,000 ultra-high-net-worth individuals with assets of over $30m, and roughly 140 billionaires across the country.
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