Cuisine
A popular flatbread with a chewy texture that has its roots in India.
What is Naan Bread?
One of the world’s earliest urban cultures, featuring advanced city planning, drainage systems, and standardized weights and measures.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This is the third largest religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
Claimed as the mother tongue and is most widely spoken in India.
What is Hindi?
A group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated with its own philosophy in ancient India, aimed at controlling body and mind to attain liberation
What is Yoga?
A tandoori-style chicken dish finished in a smooth tomato sauce with butter, cream and mild spices like garam masala and dried fenugreek leaves and is one of the mildest curries on most menus.
What is Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)?
The movement that which resulted in the partition of the subcontinent into the two independent nations of India and Pakistan.
What is the Indian Independence Act of 1947?
Known as the Law of Consequences and is at the core of many Indian religions.
What is Karma?
Speaking this language is critical for West Bengal and the broader Bengali-speaking world — a combined market of over 200 million people.
What is Bengali?
A form of temporary skin decoration using a paste created with henna and is traditionally applied during many celebrations, especially weddings, religious festivals, and family ceremonies.
What is Mendhi?
Crispy shells that are filled with a mixture of tangy tamarind water, spiced potatoes, and chickpeas. Is also known as a popular street food.
What is Pani Puri?
This road connected India with Central Asia and beyond. This route helped transport not only spices but also ideas and culture during the Spice Trade.
What is the Silk Road?
One of the most widely revered and most popular of all Indian divinities, worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar, or avatara) of the Hindu god Vishnu and also as a supreme god in his own right.
Who is Krishna?
The official language of Assam, with a rich literary heritage stretching back many centuries.
What is Assamese?
This is celebrated on the full-moon day of the month Phalguna (February–March), when celebrants throw colored water and powder at one another.
What is Holi?
A celebratory dish served during festivals, weddings, and special occasions. A dessert made by slowly simmering rice in milk, sweetened with sugar, and infused with fragrant cardamom and saffron. Often garnished with almonds, cashews, and raisins.
What is Kheer (Rice Pudding)?
This the time period that Hinduism arose.
What is the Vedic Period?
Indian religion that teaches a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence (Ahimsa)
Jainism
This language family is the largest in India, spoken by approximately 78% of the population. Languages in this group include Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Maithili, Kashmiri, Dogri, Konkani, Sindhi, Nepali, Urdu, and Sanskrit.
What is the Indo-Aryan family ?
The Hindu festival of lights that is associated with the spiritual victory or triumph of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
What is Diwali?
A winter specialty of mixed vegetables such as potatoes, yams, eggplants, bananas, beans, and fenugreek dumplings, cooked in an inverted earthen pot buried in hot coals. Also is often served with puri.
What is Undhiyu (Gujarat)?
Was characterized by great flourishing of art and literature, and is known as the "classical" period of Indian art and literature.
What is the Gupta period?
This religion can also be known as "Vedic Religion" or "Sanatana Dharma".
What is Hinduism?
This language family dominates southern India, accounting for roughly 19.64% of the Indian population. The four scheduled languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam all have ancient literary traditions and distinct scripts.
What is the Dravidian Language Family?
One of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. Its origin is attributed to the traveling bards in ancient northern India known as Kathakaar ("storyteller"), who communicated stories from the Hindu epics through dance, songs, and music.
What is Kathak?