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Eight cheerful questions about the things India is famous for. No need to be an expert: anyone from nine to ninety can play along.
Spice-market wanderer 0–3 · Chai-stall regular 4–6 · India insider 7–8
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New Delhi was planned and built as a brand-new capital city, and it was officially opened in 1931. It lies inside the much bigger and older city of Delhi, which is why many people use the two names for the same place. Mumbai, on the west coast, is often called India's financial capital.
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The flag is nicknamed the Tiranga, 'the tricolour'. Its orange stripe is officially called saffron, and in the white middle stripe sits a navy-blue wheel with 24 spokes. Until 2021, the law said the national flag could only be made of khadi, a cloth spun by hand.
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Leopards live in India too, but the national animal is the tiger: a count in 2022 found more than 3,000 wild Bengal tigers in the country. No two tigers have the same stripes, a bit like our fingerprints. And unlike most cats, tigers love water: they are strong swimmers and cool off in rivers on hot days.
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The mango is India's national fruit, and India grows more of them than any other country. More than 500 kinds of mango are known, in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours, and many of them ripen in summer. The biggest pineapple growers are Costa Rica, the Philippines and Indonesia.
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The name Himalaya comes from the old Indian language Sanskrit and means 'abode of snow'. The range holds the highest peaks on Earth, including Mount Everest, the highest of them all. The Alps are much smaller and lie far away, in Europe.
Photo: NASA Landsat image, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Cricket is India's favourite sport by far, and it became even more loved after India's men surprised the world by winning the Cricket World Cup in 1983. The longest form of the game, a Test match, can last up to five days, with a 40-minute break for lunch and a 20-minute break for tea every day.
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The name Bollywood mixes Bombay, the old name of Mumbai, with Hollywood. In most Bollywood songs the actors do not really sing: the songs are recorded by professional 'playback singers', and the actors move their lips along on screen.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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Many yoga poses are named after things in nature, such as the tree pose and the tortoise pose. Since 2015, 21 June has been the International Day of Yoga, picked because it is the longest day of the year in the northern half of the world. Pilates was invented in the 20th century by a German, Joseph Pilates.
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