most intresting facts of india

1.Most historians agree that the first recorded account of plastic surgery is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.

2.Hindi and English are the official languages of India. The government also recognizes 17 other languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, Manipuri, Konkani, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu). Apart from these languages, about 1,652 dialects are spoken in the country.
3.India’s pastoral communities are largely dependent on dairy and have made India the largest milk-producing country in the world.
4.India has the world’s third largest road network at 1.9 million miles. It also has the world’s second largest rail network, which is the world’s largest civilian employer with 16 million workers.
5. Rivers have played a vital role in India’s popular culture and folklore—they have been worshipped as goddesses because they bring water to an otherwise dry land. Bathing in the Ganges in particular is thought to take away a person’s sins. It is not unusual to spread a loved one’s ashes in the Ganges.

bath in Ganges

6.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.

7.Most Indians rinse their hands, legs, and face before eating a meal. It is considered polite to eat with the right hand, and women eat after everyone is finished. Wasting food is considered a sin. 
8.During the Vedic era in India, horse sacrifice sanctioned the sovereignty of the king.
9.It is traditional to wear white, not black, to a funeral in India. Widows will often wear white in contrast to the colorful clothes of married or single women.
10.All of India is under a single time zone.
11.On India’s Independence Day, August 15, 1947, the country was split into India and Pakistan. The partition displaced 1.27 million people and resulted in the death of several hundred thousand to a million people.
12.In recent years, Indian authors have made a mark on the world with such novels as Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), Vikram Seth’s Suitable Boy (1993), and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997).
13.India experiences six seasons: summer, autumn, winter, spring, summer monsoon, and winter monsoon.
14.The Taj Mahal (“crown palace”) was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666) for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631). This architectural beauty has been called “marbled embroidery” for its intricate workmanship. It took 22,000 workmen 22 years to complete it.
15.The first and greatest civilization in ancient India developed around the valley of the Indus River (now Pakistan) around 3000 B.C. Called the Indus Valley civilization, this early empire was larger than any other empire, including Egypt and Mesopotamia.
16.After the great Indus Civilization collapsed in 2000 B.C., groups of Indo-Europeans called Aryans (“noble ones”) traveled to northwest India and reigned during what is called the Vedic age.
17. The mingling of ideas from the Aryan and Indus Valley religions formed the basis of Hinduism, and the gods Shiva, Kali, and Brahma all have their roots in Aryan civilization. The Aryans also recorded the Vedas, the first Hindu scriptures, and introduced a caste system based on ethnicity and occupation.

A pic of Mahabharata indicating Aryan civilization

18.Alexander the Great invaded India partly because he wanted to solve the mystery of the “ocean,” which he had been told was a huge, continuous sea that flowed in a circle around the land. When he reached the Indian Ocean, he sacrificed some bulls to Poseidon for leading him to his goal.

19.Greek sculpture strongly influenced many portrayals of Indian gods and goddesses, particularly after the conquest of Alexander the Great around 330 B.C. In fact, early Indian gods had Greek features and only later did distinct Indian styles emerge.
20.Chandragupta Maurya (340-290 B.C.), a leader in India who established the Mauryan Empire (321-185 B.C.), was guarded by a band of women on horseback.  more Indian facts here

facts of india that makes proud

1. India is the world’s largest producer of dried beans, such as kidney beans and chickpeas. It also leads the world in banana exports; Brazil is second.
2. In India, the fold and color of clothing are viewed as important markers of social classification. Additionally, a woman will be viewed as either a prostitute or a holy person depending on the manner in which she parts her hair.

   

   Traditional Indian women

3. With 150,000 post offices, India has the largest postal network in the world. However, it is not unusual for a letter to take two weeks to travel just 30 miles.
4. In India, grasping one’s ears signifies repentance or sincerity.
5. The Bengal tiger is India’s national animal. It was once ubiquitous throughout the country, but now there are fewer than 4,000 wild tigers left.
6. Indians hold prominent places both internationally and in the United States. For example, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla), the creator of the Pentium chip (Vinod Dahm), the founder/creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia), and the GM of Hewlett-Packard (Rajiv Gupta) are all Indian.
7. Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 B.C.) was one of the first important figures to bring India into contact with the West. After his death, a link between Europe and the East would not be restored until Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) landed in Calicut, India, in 1498.
8. The British Raj, or British rule, lasted from 1858 to 1947 (although they had a strong presence in India since the 1700s). British influence is still seen in Indian architecture, education system, transportation, and politics. Many of India’s worst famines are associated with British rule in India.
9. Every major world religion is represented in India. Additionally, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism all originated in India.
10. About 80% of Indians are Hindu. Muslims are the largest minority in India and form approximately 13% of the country’s population. In fact, India has the third largest population of Muslims in the world, after Indonesia and Pakistan.
11. India has the world’s largest movie industry, based in the city of Mumbai (known as the “City of Dreams”). The B in “Bollywood” comes from Bombay, the former name for Mumbai. Almost all Bollywood movies are musicals.
12. Mumbai (Bombay) is India’s largest city, with a population of 15 million. In 1661, British engineers built a causeway uniting all seven original islands of Bombay into a single landmass.
13. Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) is known around the world as Mahatma, which is an honorific title meaning “Great Soul” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit. He devoted his life to free India from British rule peacefully and based his campaign on civil disobedience. His birthday, October 2, is a national holiday. He was assassinated in 1948.
14. The lotus is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists. The Bahá'í house of worship in Delhi, known as the “Lotus Temple,” is shaped like a lotus flower with 27 gigantic “petals” that are covered in marble.
15. 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.
16. Marigold flowers are used as decoration for Hindu marriages and are a symbol of good fortune and happiness.

    

    Decoration for marriage with marigold flower

17. The official name of India is the Republic of India. The name “India” derives from the River Indus, which most likely is derived from the Sanskrit sindhu, meaning “river.” The official Sanskrit name of India is Bharat, after the legendary king in the epic Mahabharata.
18. Introduced by the British, cricket is India’s most popular sport. Hockey is considered the national sport, and the Indian field hockey team proudly won Olympic gold in 1928.
19. Indians made significant contributions to calculus, trigonometry, and algebra. The decimal system was invented in India in 100 B.C. The concept of zero as a number is also attributed to India.
20. The national fruit of India is the mango. The national bird is the peacock, which was initially bred for food.

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60 unknown facts on the great Inida

1. India is about 1/3 the size of the United States, yet it is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of 1,166,079,217. India is the seventh largest country in the world, at 1.27 million square miles.
2. India is the largest democracy in the world.
3. 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 from space by a satellite.

   

   The maha kumbha mela

   
   
4. Many Indians find toilet paper repellent and consider it cleaner to splash water with the left hand in the appropriate direction. Consequently, the left hand is considered unclean and is never used for eating.
5. To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism in India don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “Towers of Silence” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.
6. It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
7. India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.
8. India has one of the world’s highest rates of abortion.
9. More than a million Indians are millionaires, yet most Indians live on less than two dollars a day. An estimated 35% of India’s population lives below the poverty line.
10. Cows can be found freely wandering the streets of India’s cities. They are considered sacred and will often wear a tilak, a Hindu symbol of good fortune. Cows are considered one of humankind’s seven mothers because they offer milk as does one’s natural mother.
11. Dancing is one of India’s most highly developed arts and was an integral part of worship in the inner shrines of every temple. It is notable for its expressive hand movements.
12. Rabies is endemic in India. Additionally, “Delhi Belly” or diarrhea is commonplace due to contaminated drinking water.
13. Many Indian wives will never say their husband’s name aloud, as it is a sign of disrespect. When addressing him, the wife will use several indirect references, such as “ji” or “look here” or “hello,” or even refer to him as the father of her child.
14. A widow is considered bad luck—otherwise, her husband wouldn’t have died. Elderly women in the village might call a widow “the one who ate her husband.” In some orthodox families, widows are not allowed near newlyweds or welcomed at social gatherings.
15. India is the birthplace of chess. The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers.

    

    chaturanga ancient chess

16. The Indian flag has three horizontal bands of color: saffron for courage and sacrifice, white for truth and peace, and green for faith, fertility, and chivalry. An emblem of a wheel spinning used to be in the center of the white band, but when India gained independence, a Buddhist dharma chakra, or wheel of life, replaced the spinning wheel.
17. The temples of Khajuraho are famous for their erotic sculptures and are one of the most popular tourist attractions in India. Scholars still debate the purpose of such explicit portrayals of sexual intercourse, which sometimes involve animals.
18. The earliest cotton in the world was spun and woven in India. Roman emperors would wear delicate cotton from India that they would call “woven winds.” Mogul emperors called the fabrics “morning dew” and “cloth of running water.”
19. In ancient and medieval India, suttees, in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, were common.
20. The Himalayas—from the Sanskrit hima, meaning “snow,” and alaya, meaning “abode”—are found in the north of India. They extend 1,500 miles and are slowly growing taller, by almost an inch (2.5 cm) a year. Several ancient Indian monasteries are found nestled in the grandeur of these mountains.    

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5 facts why people are afraid of love

Around this time last year, Virgin Mobile USA proclaimed February 13 to be "National Breakup Day." They did so after conducting a survey in which 59 percent of people said that if they were looking to end their relationship, they would hypothetically do so before Valentine's Day to save money. The beginning of the year is often said to see a spike in couple splits, with various sources claiming that January hosts most divorce filings and couple separations. You may even have heard it referred to as "National Breakup Month." In this so-called breakup season, we may be unfortunate enough to witness once-happy couples splitting up left and right, or we may recount our own painful parting from a partner we once loved.
No matter what the timeline, the story of lost love is one most of us can tell. This leaves the question "why do relationships fail?" to linger heavily in the back of our minds. The answer for many of us can be found within. Whether we know it or not, most of us are afraid of really being in love. While our fears may manifest themselves in different ways or show themselves at different stages of a relationship, we all harbor defenses that we believe on some level will protect us from getting hurt. These defenses may offer us a false illusion of safety or security, but they keep us from attaining the closeness we most desire. So what drives our fears of intimacy? What keeps us from finding and keeping the love we say we want?
1. Real love makes us feel vulnerable.
A new relationship is uncharted territory, and most of us have natural fears of the unknown. Letting ourselves fall in love means taking a real risk. We are placing a great amount of trust in another person, allowing them to affect us, which makes us feel exposed and vulnerable. Our core defenses are challenged. Any habits we've long had that allow us to feel self-focused or self-contained start to fall by the wayside. We tend to believe that the more we care, the more we can get hurt.

2. New love stirs up past hurts.
When we enter into a relationship, we are rarely fully aware of how we've been impacted by our history. The ways we were hurt in previous relationships, starting from our childhood, have a strong influence on how we perceive the people we get close to as well as how we act in our romantic relationships. Old negative dynamics may make us wary of opening ourselves up to someone new. We may steer away from intimacy, because it stirs up old feelings of hurt, loss, anger or rejection. As Dr. Pat Love said in an interview with PsychAlive, "when you long for something, like love, it becomes associated with pain," the pain you felt at not having it in the past.
3. Love challenges an old identity.
Many of us struggle with underlying feelings of being unlovable. We have trouble feeling our own value and believing anyone could really care for us. We all have a "critical inner voice," which acts like a cruel coach inside our heads that tells us we are worthless or undeserving of happiness. This coach is shaped from painful childhood experiences and critical attitudes we were exposed to early in life as well as feelings our parents had about themselves.
While these attitudes can be hurtful, over time, they have become engrained in us. As adults, we may fail to see them as an enemy, instead accepting their destructive point of view as our own. These critical thoughts or "inner voices" are often harmful and unpleasant, but they're also comfortable in their familiarity. When another person sees us differently from our voices, loving and appreciating us, we may actually start to feel uncomfortable and defensive, as it challenges these long-held points of identification.
4. With real joy comes real pain.
Any time we fully experience true joy or feel the preciousness of life on an emotional level, we can expect to feel a great amount of sadness. Many of us shy away from the things that would make us happiest, because they also make us feel pain. The opposite is also true. We cannot selectively numb ourselves to sadness without numbing ourselves to joy. When it comes to falling in love, we may be hesitant to go "all in," for fear of the sadness it would stir up in us.
5. Relationships can break your connection to your family.
Relationships can be the ultimate symbol of growing up. They represent starting our own lives as independent, autonomous individuals. This development can also represent a parting from our family. Much like breaking from an old identity, this separation isn't physical. It doesn't mean literally giving up our family, but rather letting go on an emotional level -- no longer feeling like a kid and differentiating from the more negative dynamics that plagued our early relationships and shaped our identity.
Final words:don't be foolish,love people you who you really want in your life, that's may make you suffer now but it gives you a sweet fruit of happiness throughout your life


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top 5 wild facts about las vegas

1Drinking In Public

In basically every movie featuring Las Vegas, there is a copious amount of drinking while in public. But is that just a liberty taken in the movies or can you actually live the dream and wander around drink in hand?
It turns out that the answer is yes—but, as with most legal issues, there are some exceptions to keep in mind. Within the city limits you are allowed to have an open container in public as long as the establishment where you bought your drink allowed you to leave the premises with it and your beverage is not in a metal or glass container—so no beer cans. And watch where you wander with your drink, since if you have it within 1,000 feet of a school, place of worship, or hospital you will be risking an unplanned tour of the Clark County Detention Center.

2Prostitution Is Not Legal In Las Vegas

This one has been a source of confusion among tourists for a long time. One of the things for which Nevada is known, for better or worse, is being the only state that permits legal prostitution. But the law only allows prostitution in counties with a population of less than 400,000 people. Why is that particular number the cutoff? Because when the law was enacted, Las Vegas wanted to keep the brothels out of Clark County, where the city is located. At the time Clark County was the only county with a population over 400,000, though today Reno’s population also prevents it from legalizing prostitution.
So why did a city that made its official advertising slogan “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” work so hard to keep out legal prostitution? Like many small western towns, Las Vegas had tolerated the presence of brothels since its founding. But as the city began to evolve into a national tourist destination it cracked down on open prostitution, in an effort to avoid scaring off visitors from more puritan parts of the country. That is not to say that illicit prostitution doesn’t exist in Las Vegas, as the hundreds of pages for “escorts” in the local phone book will attest, but the Las Vegas police regularly conduct stings to catch prostitutes and their johns.
So while sex workers in Nevada’s rural counties ply their trade at brothels regulated by the local health department and undergo legally mandated monthly STD screenings, Las Vegas has steadfastly rejected efforts to create a legal red light district, despite the city’s continuing problems with underage prostitution and human trafficking. Nevada’s legal prostitution industry certainly has its problems, but given that selling sex is unlikely to go out of fashion anytime soon, regulation may be the best solution.

3Janet Airlines

Nevada is home to one of America’s most secretive military facilities, the classified base known as Area 51. Located in a dry lake bed in central Nevada, the government refused to even acknowledge Area 51’s existence until this year, and the base has been rumored to house everything from a top secret test site to recovered alien spaceships. While we don’t know the base’s exact purpose, we do know that Area 51 employs hundreds of civilian contractors. And for those of you that have not been to central Nevada, the area doesn’t offer much for those accustomed to big city life. As a result, many employees reside in Las Vegas.
The federal government quickly recognized that it couldn’t expect the base’s employees to make an eight hour drive to work every day. That’s where a special restricted access terminal at McCarran International Airport and a fleet of white unmarked 737s come into play. The nondescript planes routinely ferry Area 51’s civilian employees between the base and Las Vegas. The fleet is unofficially known as “Janet Airlines” due to the call sign the planes use to identify themselves.
As for what the employees are up to when they arrive at Area 51, that’s still anyone’s guess. In August 2013, the CIA declassified a report stating that the base has previously been used to test prototypes for top-secret surveillance aircraft. However, there are still those who believe the base has more extraterrestrial functions.

4Gambling Is Illegal Just Outside Of Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the world, with slot machines located in almost every supermarket and gas station in the city, so it may be surprising that gambling is strictly prohibited just 40 kilometers (25 miles) away from the Strip.
With its quiet streets and well-manicured lawns, Boulder City looks more like a small Midwestern town than the last stop before entering Vegas after crossing the Hoover Dam. The community was established by the federal government in 1931 for workers constructing the dam. Federal officials were understandably concerned that the construction workers’ paychecks would end up at local casinos rather than in their bank accounts, and so a gambling ban was instituted. When Boulder City was incorporated in 1960, the city council decided to maintain the gambling ban.
Even today, the suggestion of legalizing gambling in the city is met with staunch resistance by local residents, who prefer to shun the negative side-effects that come with gambling. Gaming and tourism are the lifeblood of Nevada’s economy, but it is refreshing to know that there is still a place for Vegas visitors and residents alike to get away from the glitz and glamour for a while.

5Oscar Goodman

Perhaps no one person epitomizes modern Las Vegas more than former mayor Oscar Goodman. Goodman got his start as a young criminal defense attorney taking on the cases of some of the city’s most notorious mobsters. After a decades-long legal career, Goodman beat out five opponents to become mayor in 1999.
Goodman presided over Las Vegas just as it was once again embracing its reputation as Sin City, leaving behind the brief fad to market itself as a family-friendly destination. And the city couldn’t have asked for a better spokesman than Goodman. He made a habit of attending public functions with two showgirls at his side while sipping a martini, and he dubbed himself “The Happiest Mayor in the Universe.” He outraged local parents during a question and answer session in front of a 4th grade class, when he responded that his favorite pastime was drinking gin. When called out for the impropriety of his response, Goodman said, “I can’t tell a lie. If they didn’t want the answer the kid shouldn’t have asked the question.” And when asked by a reporter how to handle the city’s graffiti problem, the mayor advocated cutting the thumbs off of any aspiring Banksys.
Besides making outrageous comments, Mayor Goodman brought about some actual policy changes, most notably the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas. The Downtown Project saw much of the dilapidated motels and high crime of the area replaced with high-rise condominiums and hipster-friendly bars, though like most urban renewal projects there was controversy over the displacement of the area’s low-income residents.
The law limits the office of mayor to three terms, so in 2011 the Happiest Mayor in America stepped down. But the city will still have a Mayor Goodman until at least 2015—Oscar’s wife Carolyn won the race to replace him, though she travels with Chippendale dancers instead of showgirls.