All about India: 10 amazing reasons why you should be proud to be an Indian.


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All about India is the space where we cover something about India or Indians that you wouldn’t have known. Today we feature 10 amazing reasons, why you should be proud to be an Indian.

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  1. There are over a million Indian millionaires.
  2. There are 1,652 dialects and languages spoken in India. It is not at all unusual for an Indian to speak at least two and often more languages well.
  3. India invented the number system and Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
  4. Baudhayana, an Indian mathematician first calculated the value of PI. He is also said to have discovered other mathematical theorems still in use.
  5. India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
  6.  India has the world’s second largest train network, and it is the largest civilian employer.
  7. Having been visited by Buddha in 500 B.C. Varanasi is the oldest continuously habituated city in the world.
  8. The world’s largest road network is in India—over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
  9.  Chaturanga—Sanskrit, meaning “four members of an army” was invented in India. Now known all over the world, ‘chess’ had its beginnings in India.
  10. Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India
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Ami Pandya

'Ever Learning, Ever Evolving, Never Giving up' sums up www.bms.co.in's Content Manager and passionate writer, Ami. She is a BMS graduate who has freelanced in the past with the top Indian newspapers and magazines. Apart from writing she also likes to indulge into travelling, photography and social work.

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