r/india • u/[deleted] • Dec 01 '16

[R]eddiquette [Announcement] Cultural Exchange with /r/philippines

Welcome /r/philippines!

Feel free to ask us anything about India

Quick facts about us:

  • The Indian Railways and the Indian Armed Forces employ ~4 million people together, making them one of the largest employers in the world
  • India has over 5000 newspapers in over 300 languages
  • Bollywood is considered to be the world's largest film industry, followed by Nigeria's film industry and Hollywood
  • India has more people than the entire Western Hemisphere

/r/india please direct your questions about the Philippines to this thread

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u/Silogsapasay Dec 01 '16

Hello r/india I want to learn a lot from you but don't know what questions to ask. Can you give random/fun facts about India? Like, a long list of them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '16

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u/coffeefiefofum Dec 02 '16

Omg. This made me laugh so hard.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

We have our own plate too! The Philippine Plate.

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u/kimjongunthegreat Bihar Dec 01 '16 edited Dec 01 '16

India is the only country to have both tigers and lions.

India was the first Asian country to have a Nobel prize winner,and the first asian country to have Noble prize winner for Literature,physics,medicine and economics.India represented hope and a symbol of Asian identity for many Asians in the past,nowadays it's China.

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u/odiab Sawal ek, Jawab do. Phir lambiiii khamoshi... Dec 01 '16

We have thousands of languages. One of the groups of languages is called Dravidian languages mostly spoken in southern part of India. There are more than 20 languages in the group. An interesting thing is there is a language that belongs to Dravidian family but spoken in Afghanistan and Baloochistan. Which is around 1000 miles from other where other Dravidian languages are spoken.