Wow Facts About India

1. India has largest postal network in the world with over 1,055,050 post offices. Single post office on average serves population of 7,175 people.

2. The largest pool of scientists and engineers are from India.

3. India is the second largest English speaking country in the world. 125,226,449 number of English speakers.

4. The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space.

5. Shampoo was invented in India. The word shampoo itself has been derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Champu’ or ‘Champi’ which means to massage.

6. Indian Railway employs more than a million people making it the largest employer in the world.

7. India is the world’s largest milk producer with 16 percent of global production.

8. India’s road network is the world’s second largest with 4,865,000 miles of road constructed.

9. Water on the moon was discovered by India. India’s ISRO Chandrayaan-1, using its moon mineralogy method detected water on the Moon for the first time.

10. Chess was invented in India. The original word for chess is the Sanskrit word ‘Chaturanga’ meaning four members of an army which are most likely elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers.

11. Yoga originated from India and is still in existence for over 5000 years.

12. Around 20-40 percent Indians are vegetarians making it the largest vegetarian- friendly country in the world.

13. 90 countries from all over the world buy software from India.

14. India’s space program ISRO is among top 5 space program in world despite having budget constraints.

15. India is the world’s largest importer of arms but it has never invaded or attacked any country. India’s army is the third largest in the world and has been ranked as the seventh best armies in the world.

16. It is estimated that over 850 languages are spoken in India on daily basis and that there are over 1600 languages total that is known in this country.

17. India is home to over 1 million millionaires. However a large part of the country still lives on 140 rupees per day.

18. The first university was set up in ‘Takshilla’ in 1700BCE.

19. India has world’s largest movie industry based in the city of Mumbai known as ‘City of Dreams’. The ‘B’ in Bollywood comes from ‘Bombay’, the former name of Mumbai.

20. There are more deaths on the roads of India than any other country in the world.

21. The air of New Delhi is the most polluted in the world.

22. The country exports over 400 million dollar worth of 'Hair' each year.

23. London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi. Britain also has the largest Indian restaurant in the world – AAKASH, which can seat upto 750 people in one seating.

24. Pizza hut, KFC and McDonald’s introduced vegetarian menus just to cater to the Indian population.

25. India had more people using the internet than the entire population of the United States.

26. India has close to 500 wildlife sanctuaries.

27. The world’s hottest chilly ‘Bhut Jolokia’ is from India.

28. Foreigners are forbidden by laws to take Indian currency out of the country.

29. Indian housewives own more gold than the reserves on the IMF, United States, Germany and Switzerland combined. The amount of gold owned by the Indian lady is 11 percent of the world’s gold.

30. The ‘Kamasutra’ is an Indian Hindu text that is all about enhancing sexual pleasure but most people don’t realize that there is an Indian law that makes sex toys illegal in India.

31. Children’s day is celebrated on November 14, 9 months after Valentine’s Day.

32. Indian is the ninth largest solar thermal power generating country in terms of million units per square miles. It will have 20 million solar lights installed by 2022 which will save 1 billion liters of kerosene every year.

33. It is largest newspaper market in the world.

34. India has the largest rating constitution the world.