Indian Culture: India is a diverse nation of different religion, culture, tradition, food and living style.
It is mostly famous for its population, film industry, food and inventions. India has so many interesting and amazing facts to boast upon. Home to the Indus valley civilization, the Indian subcontinent is identified by its cultural wealth and trade routes. India is also known as Incredible India.
Facts and figures about Indian Culture
India is the 2nd largest population in the world with 1.324 billion people which includes different religion from all over the world. India’s population consists of majority Hindus followed by Muslims then Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism and other minor religions. As per the recent report of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, China and India contribute to 19 and 18 percent of the world’s entire population respectively. It also stated that India will surpass China’s population roughly by 2024. In the previous report released in 2015, this was expected to happen in 2022.
Cultural sparkle
Music and Dance In India
India is renowned for its music, art and dances universally. There are several Indian classical dance forms that have a historical and mythological root which India has introduced the world to viz. Kathak, Kathakali, Odissi, Manipuri, Kuchipudi. These dance forms have traditional and cultural importance as these dance forms represent different traditions and their éclat. A dance, which ever genre it belongs to, is incomplete without music.
India has its own music which finds its root in the ancient India and has genre consisting of Classical, Folk, Bhajan (devotional song), Ghazal, Qawwali etc. India finds its place in modern music too viz. Bhangra, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Trance etc. The Indian states have their own folk music and traditional dance which represents their culture, way of living and history, like Bihugeet of Assam, Garba of Gujarat, Lavani of Maharashtra, Bhajan-Kirtan of Bihar and other North Indian states, Bhavageete of Karnataka, Bhangra of Punjab. The Uttarakhandi music has its roots in nature. The folk music is related to the festivals, ancient stories. The musical instruments consist of Dhol, Dholak, Tabla, Shehnai, Sitar, Tanpura, Veena, Pungi, Flute etc. The Indian music is based on two categories viz. Hindustani, popular in Northern, Western and Eastern India and Carnatic, renowned in the South.
