If all of the world´s cultural heritage was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country? Thus I present according to me the cultural heritage of India which has formed part of our legacy. Although what I have presented is merely a small fraction of the total. It is what according to me and what has been taught to me. India is diverse and people in different regions have different perceptions.

1. CULTURAL
HERITAGE
OF INDIA
-BY TUSHAR GOEL

2. • The culture of India is the way of living of the people of
India. India's languages, religions, dance, music,
architecture, food, and customs differ from place to
place within the country.
• The Indian culture, often labeled as an amalgamation of
several cultures, spans across the Indian subcontinent
and has been influenced by a history that is several
millennia old.
• Many elements of India's diverse cultures, such as
Indian religions, yoga and Indian cuisine, have had a
profound impact across the world.

3. Architecture
• The Taj Mahal is one of the eight wonders of
the world.
• It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal
emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–1658) to
house the tomb of his favourite wife out of
three, Mumtaz Mahal.

4. Fashion
• India is a country with an ancient clothing
design tradition, yet an emerging fashion
industry.
• Traditional Indian clothings with regional
variations, like sari, ghagra choli or dhoti,
remained popular till early decades of post-
independence India.

5. Fitness
• Yoga is an Indian physical, mental, and spiritual
practice/discipline.
• Many studies have tried to determine the
effectiveness of yoga as a complementary
intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and
heart disease.
• The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha (liberation)
though the exact definition of what form this takes
depends on the philosophical or theological
system with which it is conjugated.

6. Literature
• The Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic poem ascribed to
the Hindu sage and Sanskrit poet Valmiki.
• It is regarded as one of the two great works of
Indian literature.
• The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven
books (kāṇḍas) and 500 cantos (sargas), and tells
the story of Rama (an avatar of the Hindu supreme-
god Vishnu), whose wife Sita is abducted by
Ravana, the king of Lanka (current day Sri Lanka).

7. • The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of
ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.
• The Mahabharata is the longest known epic poem and has
been described as the longest poem ever written. About 1.8
million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times
the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about
four times the length of the Ramayana.
• The core story of the work is that of a dynastic struggle for
the throne of Hastinapura, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru
clan. The two collateral branches of the family that
participate in the struggle are the Kaurava and the Pandava.

8. Medicine
• Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional
Hindu medicine native to the Indian subcontinent.
• Ayurveda tends to emphasise attaining vitality by building
a healthy metabolic system and maintaining good
digestion and excretion. Ayurveda also focuses on
exercise, yoga, and meditation.
• Ayurveda follows the concept of Dinacharya, which says
that natural cycles (waking, sleeping, working, meditation
etc.) are important for health and hygiene, including
regular bathing, cleaning of teeth, skin care, and eye
washing

9. Mathematics
• Aryabhata was the first of the major mathematician-
astronomers from the classical age of Indian
mathematics and Indian astronomy.
• Modern names "sine" and "cosine" are mistranscriptions
of the words jya and kojya as introduced by Aryabhata.
• The place-value system, first seen in the 3rd-century
Bakhshali Manuscript, was clearly in place in his work.
While he did not use a symbol for zero, the French
mathematician Georges Ifrah argues that knowledge of
zero was implicit in Aryabhata's place-value system as a
place holder for the powers of ten with null coefficients.

10. • Kabaddi is a contact sport that originated in
Ancient India.
• India is the most successful team on the
world stage, having won every world cup and
Asian Games title so far, in both men's and
women's categories.
Sports

11. • Kushti (also Pehlwani ) is a traditional Indian
form of wrestling . The origin of the martial
art, is classified in the time of the 5th century.
• The training takes place on sandy ground.
Originally trained with great stone rings,
boulders or tree trunks. Today tree trunks for
leveling of the square and some strength
exercises are still being used.

12. • THANK YOU