Amazing and Unknown Facts of India

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India." - Romain Rolland

What better way to share some amazing & unknown facts about india than this. Here they are -

1. India has Asia's largest train network :

Indian Railway carries 23 million passengers daily and it is one of the world’s largest employers with over 1.4 million people.

2. The Golden Temple in India feeds a vegetarian meal to over 100,000 people a day regardless of race, religion and class.

Golden Temple, Amrtisar

3. World's biggest family :

India is home to the world's biggest family. A man named Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grand children. They all live together in a 100-room mansion.

4. India is the second largest English-speaking country in the world.

With over 125 million which is just 10% population of india only behind US which is ranked first.

5. Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference.

It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man hours for completion and also weighs as much as 56,000 African elephants. This sea link cost around ₹16 billion(250 million $) a true engineering and architectural marvel.

Bandra-Worli Sea link

6. Only 3% of Indians pay incone tax.

Many argue that some of the country's financial problems would be solved in one fell swoop, if everyone pay their taxes regularly.

7. The Indian Constitution is the longest in the world.

It has 448 articles, 12 schedules and 98 amendments. It took 2 years, 11 months, 16 days to come up with complete draft.

8. Around 30% of indians are vegetarian. Therefore Pizza Hut had to open their first pure vegetarian restaurant in the country and KFC had to introduce a “vegetarian” menu. So did McDonalds, the world’s largest fast-food manufacturer.

9. Spiderman had its own desi version in 2004.

Marvel comics published an Indian version of Spiderman in 2004 due to popularity of the character in the nation.

9. Though cricket is India's most favourite sport. But Hockey which is India's national sport, they won 8 gold medals in hockey in the Olympics most by any nation.

Indian Hockey Team

10. Do you know???

38% of doctors in USA are Indians. 12% scientists in USA are Indians. 36% of NASA scientists are Indians. 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians. 28% of IBM employees are Indians. 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians. 13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

Some famous people who were born or originally belongs to India :

Julie Christie

The British screen icon Julie Christie was born in 1940 in the small North East town of Chabbua, Assam in British India.

Nasser Hussain

Formar England cricket team captain. He scores over more than 10000 international runs.

Born in Madras (currently Chennai)

Ben Kingsley

Original name (Krishna Pandit Bhanji)

Famous Hollywood actor originally was of Gujarati descent.