India, the largest country in the subcontinent, officially surpassed China as the most populous country in April 2023. In 1600, Britain established the East India Company, and the ancient civilization officially fell into the colonial era...
1. Indians do not eat with utensils
India, as an ancient civilization, has not adapted to any tableware for eating, and the diet is all by hand, and if it is rice, it will be dipped in curry into a ball and sent to the mouth. If the cake is broken, it will be folded into a conical shape, add side dishes to it, and if you are not skillful, you will make a soup, a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years.
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2. Civilization of yesteryear
The year 1,500 BC was a watershed in Indian history. Prior to this, the short, dark-skinned Dratopidians had created the brilliant Indus civilization. Later the Aryans conquered the land, they were tall and white-skinned, and created a caste system that reduced the original natives to inferior untouchables.
3. Specialty drinks
Cows are revered as sacred relics in India, and Indian folks generally have the custom of drinking cow "holy water". They believe that this will refresh the mind, eliminate all diseases, and the effect of juvenile calves will be purer. There are also many such beverage factories in India.
4. India's richest man
Mukosh-Ambani is considered India's national icon, controlling Reliance Industries, India's largest private conglomerate, and became Asia's richest man in 2019 with total assets of $56 billion.
5. Numerous private detective agencies in China
In India, the caste system is highly hierarchical, and many men impersonate high-caste groups to cheat marriages and money, and low-caste women often fake celebrities to marry into wealthy families. Large families will hire private investigators to find out each other's identity and whether they have bad habits before marriage. Coupled with the proliferation of extramarital affairs in India, catching rape and obtaining evidence has become the second largest business of these detectives.
6. The world's largest postal system
India has an area of 2.98 million square kilometers and has the best postal system in the world. India's state-run postal service covers 154932 outlets in the country, each of which supports storage and payment business, which is more detailed than any country in the world, the world's most meticulous.
7. Special subsidies
As a former British colony, not only is it the second largest English-speaking country in the world, but many parts of India have left the shadow of Britain. Public servants who work with beards of a specified length receive an additional monthly subsidy because the government feels that this will enhance the prestige of public servants.
8. A major exporter of software
India's domestic IT proficiency is all over the country, and the software industrial park located in Bangalore, also known as the "Silicon Valley of Asia", has the world's largest number of software practitioners and world-class software outsourcing companies. The annual export volume of software ranks second only to the United States.
9. Consumption levels in India
The legal tender in India is the Indian rupee, and a hundred yuan can be exchanged for about a thousand rupees. The average monthly salary of ordinary workers here is about 4,000 rupees, but due to the high population density, housing prices in first-tier cities can also be compared with China.
Compared with the house price, the living consumption here is still very low, the taxi starting price is mainly fifty rupees, eating a finger rice twenty rupees is enough, two yuan.
10. The first country to purify sugar
印度是第一个发展出提炼糖的技术的国家，我们今天能吃到的食用糖都多亏印度。 同时全世界超过八成的香料都来自印度，很多奢侈品品牌都在这里有自己的源工厂。
11. Why raise cattle if you don't eat beef?
In the Indian state of Bengal, each cow has its own ID number and is registered to avoid being smuggled to next door Bangladesh. Although Indians regard cattle as sacred objects, they are still exported to other countries when they are old.
12. A country of great creativity
As of 2020, twelve people in India have won the Nobel Prize, and they are at the top of science and technology, known as the "pharmacy of the world". In addition to this, Indians have also invented shampoo, USB interface, chess, etc.