The beauty of India

INDIA has 28 states and 7 union territories. India is located in the south of the Asian continent, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The Indian mainland consists of 4 regions, namely the Himalayan Mountains, the plains of the Ganges and the Indus, and the southern desert.



The image above shows the national flag of India. The colours and the sign in the flag represents a meaning :

• Saffron colour = Courage, Sacrifice and the spirit of renunciation

• White colour = Purity and truth

• Green colour = Faith and fertility

• Wheel = The wheel of law

           Language, religion, food and the arts are just some of the various aspects   of Indian culture

                                                             Language

 

 

Language is a human system communication to communicate people around the world. India has at least one official language in each states. The national language are Hindi and English, there are about 22 official languages and 400 living languages. The languages of India belong to two families, Aryan and Dravidian. In India we speaks few different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya as the official language in different states of India.

 

 

 

 

                                                                Religion


India is identified as a consist of Hinduism and Buddhism as the birthplace. Almost 84 percent of the population in india are hindu and 13 percent of indians are muslim. India also known as the largest islamic nation in the world. Meanwhile, Christians and Sikhs make up with a small percentage of the population and a fewer of Jains and Buddhists. In Hinduism, we have many variations and four predominant sects - Vaishnava, Shaiva, Shakteya and smarta.

 

 

 



                                                                   Food


Indian cuisine or Indian food enclosed with a variety of regional cuisine native of India. These cuisines vary significantly available and its known as a large assortments of dishes. Indians make food using herbs and spices. They believe herbs and spices could provide a good and healthy meal to the people. Indian food and cuisine is influenced by religious and cultural choices. Arab, Turkish and European are one of the influenced country to indian cuisine.


Wheat or basmati rice are important staples of the indian diet. Indian food is rich with curries and spices. They prefer to add spices and herbs in their cooking to make it more delicious and they believe it is an healthy food. Mostly, indians iclude ginger, turmeric, dried hot peppers, cinnamon and cardamom in their cooking. Indians loves spicy food and they cook spicy food as well.


Few of indian, they prefer to be a vegetarians. they mostly eat vegetables and avoid eating chicken, fish and eggs. Brahmins in India have to be a vegetarians because they refers to an individual belonging to the Hindu priest class. Brahmins are knowledgeable about god and is responsible for religions ritual in temple.


Variety of food :

The Banana leaf



















Chicken and lamb Curry

 

         

 Sweets


 
















                                                   Architecture



India also have the most well-known of an architecture. The Indian Architecture is the Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is listed in the 7 wonders of the world. Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India. Taj Mahal also known as one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage. Taj Mahal, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The reason he build this to honor of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.Taj Mahal combines with the elements from Islamic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.

          India also has many ancient Temples :

 

 

 

                                                         Arts

India is well known for its film industry. They make film in south india and north india. In south India referred to as kollywood and North India referred to as Bollywood. Movies in india always have dancing scenes to elaborate the movie and entertain the viewers.

Indian dance has a tradition more than two thousands years and the major dance is classical dance. Such as Bharata Natyam, Kathak, Odissi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Kathakali and Kuchipuidi.

 

 

 

                                                          Clothing


Indian clothing is made of colorfull silk. Many women's from other country prefer to wear them as a indian traditional wears. The traditional wears for the men is Dhoti or vesthi. Northern Indian also wears kurta. En wear sherwani for any special occasions, which is a long coat and has a button up to the collar and down to the knees with variety of colours.

 

 

 Celebration

 

 

 India celebrates different types celebrations according to the religion.

•  Diwali is an Hindu's celebration which falls on the month of october or november. A festival of lights celebrating the home coming of Lord Rama after killing Ravana.

 

 

 

 

• Dusshera is a festival everyone in india will celebrate on the month of september or october. Its a ten day festival celebrating Lord Rama killing demon king Ravana symbolisms the victory of good over evil.

 

 

 

 

 

• In kerala the malayalees will celebrate Onam festival on the month of august or september.   The celebration is famous for the snake boat races.
   
  

  
 

 

 

 

 Prepared by: Kovindran a/l Doraisamy