If all of the world´s cultural heritage (sports, music, fashion, architecture, literature, painting, etc..) was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of your country?

1. India

2. Indian Cultural Diversity
Indian culture is one of the oldest and unique. In India,
there is an amazing cultural diversity throughout the
country. The South, North, and Northeast have their own
distinct cultures and almost every state has carved its own
cultural niche. If compared, there is hardly any culture in
the world that is as varied and unique as India’s.
India is a vast country with a variety of geographical
features and climatic conditions. India, a place of infinite
variety, is fascinating with its ancient and complex culture,
dazzling contrasts and breathtaking physical beauty.

3. Indian Cultural Diversity
Most tourists who come to India are amazed by personally
observing the Indian culture. Since India is vastly populated,
its perpetual cultural diversity is amazingly spread out. Still
one thing that is common in these millions of peoples their
love for the culture.
India is the best place in the world to see the different
cultures from modern to ancient and find the similarities in
these diversified cultures.

4. Indian Cultural Diversity
The Indian culture has never been rigid and that's why it's
surviving with pride in the modern era. It timely imbibes
the qualities of various other cultures and comes out as a
contemporary and acceptable tradition.
On the world stage, either through international film
festivals or through beauty pageants, India regularly
displays its talent and culture. The flexibility and
movement with time has made Indian Culture
fashionable and acceptable too.

5. Languages of India
According to Ethnologue, India is considered to be the home to 398
languages out of which 11 have been reported extinct.
In India, some 1652 dialects were recorded in a census made in 1961.
Another census was initiated way back 2001 and it showed that for
more than half a million inhabitants, there are 29 languages being
spoken. This is why Indian language translation is a tough one.
Dialects in India vary depending on demographic location. Although
the constitution of India stipulates that the main language of the
country is Hindi in Devanagari script, languages of native tongues
are still very much alive.

6. Languages of India
Urdu
Punjabi
Oriya
Rajasthani Sanskrit
Bengali
Gujarati Manipuri
Assamese
Marathi
Konkani
Kannada
Tamil
Malayalam

7. If all the world’s cultural
heritage was contained in
a time capsule, I would
like to demonstrate my
country’s legacy in the
form of
‘FESTIVALS’

8. Indian Festivals
India is undoubtedly, a land of festivals. There are festivals for
every season, for every legend & myth, every region and every
religious place.
Some are exclusive to certain communities & religions while
others have a national & secular character about them.
Indian festivals are celebrated according to the solar and lunar
calendars. Consequently, dates & months may vary
accordingly.

9. Indian Festivals
In India, festivals are marked by a warmth of participation.
Color and festivity also provide an occasion for shopping when
overnight small markets appear from nowhere. These sell
trinkets, local souvenirs and colorful apparels. Dance and music
are essential ingredients. Exotic delicacies are a culinary delight.
Regional fairs are also common and festive in India. For
example, Pushkar fair is one of the world's largest markets
and Sonepur mela is the largest livestock fair in Asia.
The numerous and varied festivals that are held throughout the
year offer a unique way of seeing Indian culture at its best.

10. Indian Festivals
The Hindu celebrations of Diwali, Holi, Pongal and Dussehra
are the most popular religious holidays in India and therefore
are considered public holidays by the government. This means
that all children have the day off from school and most
employees have the day off from work.
Throughout India, there are dozens of festivals and
celebrations that take place celebrating different religious
and cultural occasions. Although these are not considered to
be “national” or “public” holidays by the Indian
government, they are nevertheless observed and employees
are allowed to take an unpaid day off for the ones in which
they honor.

11. Some of the festivals celebrated
in India….

12. Diwali
Deepawali or Diwali is certainly the
biggest and the brightest of all
Hindu festivals. It's the festival of
lights (deep = light and avali = a
row i.e., a row of lights) that's
marked by four days of celebration,
which literally illumines the
country with its brilliance, and
dazzles all with its joy. Each of the
four days in the festival of Diwali is
separated by a different tradition,
but what remains true and constant
is the celebration of life, its
enjoyment and goodness.

13. Diwali
Of all the festivals celebrated in India, Diwali is by far the most
glamorous and important. Enthusiastically enjoyed by people of
every religion, its magical and radiant touch creates an
atmosphere of joy and festivity.
It is a festival of lights symbolizing the victory of
righteousness and the lifting of spiritual darkness. It celebrates
the victory of good over evil - and the glory of light. This
festival commemorates Lord Rama's return to his kingdom
Ayodhya after completing his 14-year exile.
Homes are decorated, sweets are distributed by everyone and
thousands of lamps lit to create a world of fantasy.

14. Holi
Holi is a joyous celebration of
the rejuvenation of nature, and
renewed hope of happiness and
peaceful coexistence. People
throw colored water and
powders (gulal and kumkum)
at each other and make merry.
Singing and dancing add to the
gaiety of the occasion. The
exuberant display of colors
symbolizes the advent of a
colorful and prosperous spring
season.

15. Holi
Holi is celebrated all over India with color, music, dance and
bonfires. It marks the beginning of summer. It also celebrates
the end of cold and hardship, and the successful harvest of the
winter crop. For Hindus all over the world, Holi also celebrates
the victory of good over evil, symbolized in the story of Prahlad,
the young boy who overcame evil and tyranny, by his steadfast
faith in Vishnu.
This festival also dilutes all boundaries of class, creed or
gender. After getting their faces painted by myriad colours and
splashes of water, it becomes hard to differentiate the class and
cast. Hence it also signifies the equality of being human.

16. Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi is the Hindu
festival celebrated on the birthday
(rebirth) of Lord Ganesha, the son of
Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha is widely
worshipped as the god of wisdom,
prosperity and good fortune and
traditionally invoked at the beginning
of any new venture or at the start of
travel.
He is the Lord who is believed to
remove all obstacles on the path of the
spiritual aspirant, and bestows upon
him worldly as well as spiritual
success.

17. Ganesh Chaturthi
He is known to be the Lord of Power and Wisdom. He is the
eldest son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. He has as his
vehicle a small mouse. The significance of riding on a mouse
is the complete conquest over egoism.
People bring home idols of Lord Ganesha and celebrate the
festival by worshiping the Lord in a special way for a day and
a half, 5 days, 7 days or 11 days depending on the family
tradition and commitment of each individual.
On the last day of worship the idol is taken out in a colourful
and musical procession to be immersed traditionally at a
beach.

18. Eid
Eid also called Feast of Breaking the
Fast, the Sugar Feast, the Sweet
Festival is an important religious
holiday celebrated by Muslims
worldwide that marks the end
of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month
of fasting.
At the end of Ramadan, Muslims
celebrate Eid Al-Fitr. The entire
community comes together for special
prayers and to congratulate each other.
The rest of the day is typically spent
visiting friends and family, enjoying
time together.

19. Eid
The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of
dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of
Ramadan.
The traditional Eid greeting is Eid Mubarak, and it is
frequently followed by a formal embrace. Gifts are frequently
given — new clothes are part of the tradition — and it is also
common for children to be given small sums of money
(Eidi) by their elders. It is common for children to offer
salaam to parents and adult relatives.
It is common for non-Muslims to visit their Muslim friends
and neighbors on Eid to convey their good wishes.

20. Dussehra
The name Dussehra is derived from
Sanskrit Dasha-hara literally
means removal of ten referring
to Lord Rama’s victory over the ten-
headed demon king Ravana. The
day also marks the victory
of Goddess Durga over the
demons .The name Vijayadashami is
also derived from the Sanskrit words
"Vijaya-dashmi" literally meaning
the victory on the
dashmi (Dashmi being the tenth
lunar day of the Hindu calendar
month).

21. Dussehra
It is believed that the celebration of Dussehra started in the
17th century, when the king of Mysore ordered the
celebration of the day on a grand scale. Ever since, the day
is celebrated with great fervor and energy.
Many people of the Hindu faith observe Dussehra through
special prayer meetings and food offerings to the gods at
home or in temples throughout India. They also hold
outdoor fairs (melas) and large parades with effigies of
Ravana (a mythical king of ancient Sri Lanka). The
effigies are burnt on bonfires in the evening. Dussehra is
the culmination of the Navaratri festival.

22. Pushkar Fair
Pushkar, the only place which
has the sole Brahma temple in
the whole world. As per Hindu
traditions Brahma is considered
to be the Creator of the Earth.
He started it from Pushkar
therefore it is one of the most
sacred towns of India and has a
beautiful lake as its prime
attraction. Pushkar is also
reckoned for its Global Cattle
Fair especially the Camels and on
papers this is the place which
sees the largest conglomeration
of cattle worldwide.

23. Pushkar Fair
On record, this fair is World's largest camel fair where
Around 50,000 camel are gathered. The entire fair can be
segregated under three main heads with a few sub heads.
The first is the Cattle Fair. Apart from the camels, animals
like horses, cows, sheep and goats are being traded here.
Second comes the Cultural Fair. In this segment the stalls
and shops catering both to human and the cattle are set up
in the fair site. Clothing, jewelries and tattoos carry an
ethnic charm with a typically Rajasthani aura. Besides it,
the hugely versatile cultural repertoire of Rajasthan comes
alive in Pushkar Fair in form of folk dance, music, puppet
shows and so on.
The final day of the fair is for a holy dip in the
mythological significant Pushkar Lake.

24. Vaisakhi
Vaisakhi is a festival celebrated
across the northern Indian
subcontinent, especially in
the Punjab region by
the Sikh nation. For the Sikh
community this festival
commemorates the establishment
of the Khalsa.
This is the time when harvest is
gathered in and the farmer exults
in the fulfillment of his year's hard
work.

25. Vaisakhi
Many fairs in the Punjab are held near the tombs and shrines of
spiritual gurus. These fairs must have originated in a spirit of
devotion to those saints and sages. The most famous among
such fairs are the Chhapar fair, the Jarag fair, and the
Roshni fair of Jagranyan.
The fields can be seen full of nature's bounty. Dressed in their
typical folk attire, both men and women, celebrate the day with
Bhangra and Gidda. Sweets are distributed, old enmities are
forgiven and life is full of joy, merriment and everyone seems to
belong.
On Baisakhi day, water is drawn from all the sacred rivers of
India and poured in to the huge tank surrounding the golden
temple.

26. India today is unfolding a story of a billion plus people, or more
precisely, one sixth of the world’s population, on a big move as
India's large and complex systems rapidly moving top-down and
the country emerge as one of the fastest growing economies of
the world.
India is probable the only country in the world where people
belonging to different religions, castes and creeds, speaking
different languages, having different cultures, different modes of
living, different clothing, different feeding habits, worshiping
different gods and deity live together in harmony and believe to
be the children of one mother-MOTHER INDIA.

27. Thank You