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1. DID YOU KNOW
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
INDIA
SUMIT KESHARWANI

2. ∙ Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
∙India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.
∙KARMANASA River in India is considered to be a cursed river and it is
believed that touching its water would ruin one’s plans. There’s hardly any
development along this river. People around this river just eat dry fruits
because cooking food would require water!

3. The first Granite
Temple of the
world, the
BRIHADESWARA
Temple is situated
in TAMIL NADU. It
was built during the
11th century, in only
five years.

4. Magnetic Hill is a
gravity hill located
near Leh in Ladakh,
India.

5. ∙Every 12 years, a religious
gathering called the KUMBH
MELA occurs in India. It is
the world’s largest gathering
of people.
∙The gathering is so large
that the Kumbh Mela is
visible from the space

6. The Tirupati
Balaji temple and the
Kashi Vishwanath
Temple both, receive
more visitors than
the Vatican City and
Mecca combined.

7. Rabindranath Tagore
is credited not only
for writing the Indian
national anthem,
Jana Gana
Mana, but the
Bangladeshi national
anthem, Amar Sonar
Bangla, as well. He
was also offered
knighthood by the
British but refused
the honor after the
Jalianwala Bagh
massacre.

8. TAKSHILA is said to be
the first every university
in the world; it started
around 700 BC.
Today, India has
the world’s largest
school in terms of
students, the City
Montessori School in
Lucknow. It has more
than 45 thousand
students!

9. India’s first rocket
(Kayla) was brought
on cycle and a
satellite (Apple) on
bullock cart.

10. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra,
was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is
one of its kind in India.