Dear Members: AIREA has the pleasure to bring to you these very interesting facts about our motherland compiled in the year 2000….. Some of the most mind-blowing facts about India (First Part) •Indias road network is long enough to loop around earth over 117 times. •New Delhi’s air is the most polluted in the world. •About Rs.2500 crore worth of hair is bought and sold in India. •About 25% of India’s land is turning into desert - that’s the equivalent of three United Kingdoms. •India has the most expensive home, constructed at the cost of about $1 billion. This is equivalent to the GDP of Somalia (No brownie points to guess who this home belongs to !) •India has won all Kabbadi World Cups to date both in Mens and Womens category. •The biggest ever air evacuation in the history of mankind was done by India (No brownie points to guess the airline !) •The Free Kitchen (Langar) at the Golden Temple Feeds up to 100,000 People a Day for Free. •Roopkund Lake is a glacial lake located at about 5000 meters in the Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand. In 1942, a forest guard stumbled upon hundreds of human skeletons on the banks of Roopkund. Carbon dating of the corpses puts them between 12th and 15th century. The fact that intrigued the investigators was that there was no historical account of any such past incident on the trade route to Tibet. •Some ritual chants of Kerala have patterns, but no known meaning. They can’t be written down and can only be transmitted orally. No language has phonetic equivalents for it. Their nearest analog is bird songs! These aural traditions are actually bird vocalizations which originated before human speech. •A village in the Dima Hasao district of Assam witnesses mass suicidal of birds in the moonless nights of September and October. This event has been occurring year after year for centuries . •The village of Kuldhara is like a ghost village that has been abandoned since 1800s. It is said to carry a curse of the villagers who migrated to other places. Kuldhara lies about 15 Km west of Jaisalmer in western Rajasthan. The village now lies in ruins. •Dinosaur eggs are found in India. In some areas of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh eggs of giant reptiles are found and even illegally sold at $10. Fossilized skeletons with length around 18-20m and 10-13 tonnes have been found in Maharashtra. They are also believed to be found in Gujarat, Rajasthan and M.P. •Stambheshwar Mahadev Temple is situated about 40 miles from Vadodara in the small town of Kavi Kamboi of Gujarat. This temple of Lord Shiva can only be visited during the low tide hours. In the hours of high tides it remains mostly submerged. •In the Bengal Swamps – West Bengal (Aleya Ghost lights) - these are mysterious lights often encountered by fishermen in the marshy regions of West Bengal. Many fishermen have drowned or their bodies washed off from the river following these mysterious lights. •The population of Uttarakhand according to 2011 census was 10,116,752. The number of tourists visiting are 2.5 crore. •India is home to 300000 mosques which is more than any country of world . •The southern districts of Kottayam and Idukki of Kerala witnessed an unusual phenomenon on July 25 to September 23, 2001 when the rain was unusually red tinged. Colored rainfall in Kerala had been reported as early as 1986 and on several instances since then, the most recent of which was in June of 2012. •One of the first serial killers to be photographed killed around 925 people. He was hanged by East India company in 1840. He himself confesses to have killed around 125 people. •India won 3 Olympic Gold medals in Hockey. In Olympic Games we played 48 games and won all of them! •India was unbeatable in Hockey for 20 years. •Hitler requested Dhyanchand to accept German citizenship and play for Germany but he refused. •A polling booth was set up in the remote village of Banej, far into the Gir forests of Gujarat, for one single voter. •Other such polling stations - Marambo polling booth, Dibang Valley district and Upper Mudoideep, Changlang had three voters each, while Malogam in Anjaw and Sikaridong in West Kameng had four voters each. Lamta, East Kameng district: 5, Matkrong, Anjaw and Dharampur -II, Changlang district: 7, Punli booth: 9. (All in Arunachal Pradesh). These are inaccessible areas with no motorable roads. The polling officials had to trek in hilly terrains for two days to reach the
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