Saturday, May 30, 2009

India - Unity In Diversity

* India is a union of 29 states and 6 union territories.
* The largest democracy in the world with a civilization more than five thousand years old boasts of multiple cultural origins.
* Multiple identities religious, linguistic, cultural, regional and caste identities.
* Be it Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jain and Sikhs everybody had a single identity of being an Indian.
* There are 18 official languages, 114 languages, 216 mother tongues and 900 dialects in India.
* Hindi and English are both national and official languages.
* India is the 7th largest and the 2nd most populous with over 1.08 million people.
* 1 out of 5 people in the world is an Indian.

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