East or west, India is the best 🙂 and Here are some more mind-blowing facts about India that support this statement:
- Bangalored‘ , a word which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm.
- Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet.
- In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist – Akku Yadav. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
- The 61st Cavalry Regiment and the President’s Bodyguard (PBG) of the Indian Army are one of the few remaining horsed cavalry army regiments anywhere in the world.
- English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is of Indian (Gujarati) descent. He is known for starring as Mahatma Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler’s List (1993), Sexy Beast (2000), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Hugo (2011) and IronMan 3 (2013).
- Australia’s Cricketer Stuart Clark is of Indian origin. His father Bruce Clark who is from Madras (now Chennai) was a student at Christ Church Anglo Indian-High School Madras, and his mother Mary Clark (name at birth – Boosey) is from the Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, India; her family is a famous sporting family.
- In 1928, when the Indian Hockey team was on its way to Amsterdam, they played a series of exhibition matches in England. Seeing its caliber England decided not to field a team for the Olympics as “they did not want to lose to a slave country.” – India was still under the British Rule then.
- A sugar company in Andhra provides rocket fuel to ISRO.
- There is a species of Shark known as the Ganges Shark that inhabits River Ganga and it is critically endangered.
- Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kinds in India.
- A city name “Jhumri Telaiya” actually exists in Jharkhand.
- Security at Tihar jail is managed by Tamil Nadu special police force.
- India has three antarctic stations, Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri and Bharathi
- India Post allows you to order personalized stamps with your picture on them.
