Facts of India

   9 Unbelievable Facts About India Most                          Indians Didn’t  Know

                             

1. Hindi is not the National Language of India

There are more than 20 official languages and Hindi is one of them but it is not our National language. Official languages are the ones which a country uses to communicate on an official level. In fact, there are some cities in India like Chennai, where people are happy not to communicate in Hindi.

2. India does not have a National Game

It's not hockey and definitely not chess. In an RTI reply, the centre said that there is no National game.

3. There are places in India where men  demand gender equality for themselves

There are places in India where a man marries a woman and moves to his mother-in-law's house.  Khasi and the matrilineal Muslims in Minicoy, Lakshadweep are some of the examples.

4. Bear Grylls wanted to join The Indian Army after getting out of school

Presenter of the famous show, Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls always knew he wanted to do something adventurous with his life. No wonder, his first choice was to join The Indian Army.

5. USB was developed by an Indian-American computer architect

Ajay V. Bhatt is the man behind USBs. You can also credit him for AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various other chip-set improvements.

7. Calculus and Trigonometry came from India

As much as the students hate it, India is responsible for it.

8. The City Montessori School in Lucknow is the world's largest school in terms of the number of students

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, had 39,437 pupils and 2,500 teachers on December 29, 2011.

9. Indian Railways has more than 1.4 million employees

That’s more than the population of Trinidad and Tobago, Estonia, Mauritius, Bahrain, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Vatican City.