Know My Incredible India!


This is a very optimistic and long-term project! I wish to adorn this space with a whole lot of exciting yet offbeat information about India. Being a land of unity in diversity with histories abound and rich philosophy at its heart, India has lot to say to the world. Many of the facts are well known and spoken highly of. However, many others are less-known yet stimulating. I have a good number of things in mind, but require a bit of time to organize the info. It's my pleasure to request the readers to notify me with exhilarating information about India with appropriate links! I will soon put up the info with due credit to the notifier. So let's together celebrate Indianess!

Ancient India

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  1. The Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, is the longest known epic poem and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.
  2. Learn about Bhimbetka rock shelters. They are an archaeological site of the Paleolithic age, exhibiting the earliest traces of human life on the Indian subcontinent, and thus the beginning of the South Asian Stone Age. They are located in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above comparatively dense forest, are five clusters of natural rock shelters, displaying paintings that appear to date from the Mesolithic Period right through to the historical period.

Medieval India

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  1. Learn about Nataraja, the personification of the eternal dynamism of the universe. The term 'Nataraj' means 'King of Dancers'. This cosmic dance of Shiva is called Anandatandava, meaning the Dance of Bliss, and symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as the daily rhythm of birth and death. The dance is a pictorial allegory of the five principle manifestations of eternal energy: Shrishti - Creation.Sthiti - State, or preservation. Samhara - Destruction. Tirobhava - Illusion. Anugraha - Release, Emancipation. In the form of Nataraja, Shiva depicts all of these elements. Get enlightened with the Significance of Nataraja Posture.

Modern India

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