Thursday 15 August 2013

The Incredible India & Indians

+.+.+.The Incredible India & Indians.+.+.+

 

...Cultures in India...

 India is the world's 2nd most populated country in the world that has a peoples with lots of belief and practises. This creates a diverse culture in India whereby in religion, food, festivals and languages.

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...Religion...

India has people that practises Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam and Christianity. They follow their own beliefs and respects other peoples belief and religion. India is one of the countries that has low rate of racism issues.

 
An Arabic word that means 'Allah'. India is the only non-Islamic country to have more number of Muslims.
 
The Symbol for Jainism

The Symbol for Sikhism

The Symbol for Hinduism. The native religion of India and the oldest religion in the world. 

 The Symbol for Buddhism. Buddhism was initiated by King Asoka in India.
The Symbol for Christianity

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...Food...

Indians practise a healthy eating lifestyle where they only take rice as their main course for lunch, which is called as Thali Set over there in India. But for breakfast and dinner the main course are light food such as tosai, chapathi and idly. India is also know an as the Sweet Paradise. This because there are variety of sweets in India which is made of pure ghee and milk with sugar. The food and sweets there really taste good.

 
 

Briyani in India

Chapathi

Thali Set

Tosai

Sweets
 
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...Festival...

Although people in India are from different races, but when it comes to festivals it celebrated throughout the country. This creates a beautiful environment relationship between the people in India.
 
 

Christmas in Agra, New Delhi, India

Hari Raya celebration

Deepavali celebration

Vaisakhi celebration

Wesak day celebration
 

Marriages

Marriages In India also celebrated like festivals in India. This is just to bring in joy for the newly married couple.
 

                                                                                                                 Sikh Wedding

Muslim Wedding

Jain Wedding

Hindu Wedding

Christian Wedding
 
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...Language...

The National Language of India is Hindi.There are about 32 languages widely spoken in India. The famous ones are the Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi. These are languages that often heard spoken by the people. This languages wording are awesomely unique.
 

The wording for Telugu

The wording for Tamil

The Arabic wording

The Wording for Hindi
 
The wording for Malayalam
The wording for Jainism
The wording for Buddhism.
 

Often the holy sacred book are written in this language. A verse from the sacred book for Hindus, The Veda;

 
                                   वेद प्रामाण्यं कस्य चित् कर्तृवादः स्नाने धर्मेच्छा जातिवादाव लेपः|
                                   संतापारंभः पापहानाय चेति ध्वस्तप्रज्ञानां पञ्च लिङगानि जाड्ये||
 
The Translation
 Believing that the Veda are standard (holy or divine), believing in a Creator for the world,
 Bathing in holy waters for gaining punya, having pride (vanity) about one's job function,
 Performing penance to absolve sins,
 Are the five symptoms of having lost one's sanity.

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These are are the cultures that make India and its people incredible.

Written by,
Navin Rao Ramachandran
ID: 13052253
Group 6.
 
 
  
 
 

 

 

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