India at a Glance
India's Legacy of World Firsts
Indus Valley Civilisation — world's largest early city network, spanning 1.5 million km²
Sulbasutras state the Pythagorean Theorem — 300 years before Pythagoras
Takshashila — world's first university, attracting scholars from across Asia
Sushruta performs rhinoplasty — birthplace of plastic surgery
Brahmagupta formalises zero and negative numbers, revolutionising mathematics
Madhava discovers infinite series — proto-calculus, 200 years before Newton
Aryabhata — India's first satellite successfully launched by ISRO
Chandrayaan-2 — India becomes 4th nation to reach lunar orbit
Chandrayaan-3 soft-lands on Moon's south pole — a world first
Eight Doors into India
Vedic wisdom & verified truths from 5,000 years
From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean
Food, festivals, art & 5,000 living traditions
Ancient trade routes and cultural connections
India's officially certified Guinness world records
History, food & culture of every Indian state
Zero, Chess, Yoga — India's enduring gifts to humanity
Beyond the Taj — 42 destinations, hidden gems & journeys
What the World Says About Bharat
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition.
If there is one place on the face of Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
In religion, India is the only millionaire — the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos undergoes immense numbers of deaths and rebirths — with time scales corresponding to those of modern cosmology.