--- title: "What are some of the basic General knowledge every Indian should know?" description: "What are some of the basic General knowledge every Indian should know?" author: "samay srivastava" published: 2018-03-05 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36654/what-are-some-of-the-basic-general-knowledge-every-indian-should-know category: "general knowledge" reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What are some of the basic General knowledge every Indian should know? What are some of the [basic](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83897/what-are-the-basic-principles-using-in-ecg) General [knowledge](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/37996/national-knowledge-commission-was-constituted-on) every [Indian](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34642/which-indian-it-company-has-been-recognized-as-one-of-the-world-s-best-employers-by-the-top-employer-institute-for-the-third-consecutive-year) should know? ## Answers ### Answer by Shreyas Tandon Being an Indian is a matter of pride...It’s diverse culture& people make this country what it is. Let’s go through some amazing facts about this amazing country full of wonders... ![What are some of the basic General knowledge every Indian should know?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/e5e680a5-20d6-46b6-ba44-0df20ce501d1/images/0b70df1f-471f-46c0-a3e5-292d013045da.png)\ • 100,000 new people are getting added to the Indian Middle Class every single day • Tamil is one of the official languages of Singapore • India and China together hold 20% of world’s arable (area suitable for a significant yield), creating half of the world’s rice and 30% of the world’s wheat • India has 17.5% of the world’s population • India has made it to the list of world’s biggest players in clean energy • One of the most remarkable achievements in Global health is a polio-free India • Indian Defense Achievements have been quite promising too. India has more aircraft carriers than China, launched numerous spy satellites, got its nuclear trade complete and a lot more • 2015 is extremely promising in terms of low inflation, peaked growth, healthy stock markets and new opportunities coming in. The World Bank expects 6.4% growth in India in 2015 • Indian Army is the world’s third largest standing army comprising over 1.1 million men in uniform • Indian healthcare is cheap and affordable because of the hard work done by Indian doctors who broke expensive treatments to the point where they’d be reduced in price and worthy • India is also home to world’s cheapest skiing lessons which are taught at the slopes of Joshimath • India has the second largest network of paved highways, after the U.S. ![What are some of the basic General knowledge every Indian should know?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/e5e680a5-20d6-46b6-ba44-0df20ce501d1/images/c9e00af1-df4c-421d-85e2-35a9b11e88cf.png)\ • Nearly 49% of the high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. are owned by Indians or Indian-Americans By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China • 100 of the Fortune 500 companies have R&D facilities in India • Expected to be among world’s top 10 wealth centers in the world, India’s total number of mobile phone subscribers has reached 930.20 million as of September 2014 • Snakes and Ladders originated in India. • Diamonds were first mined in India. • Rabindranath Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Bangladesh • The world's largest producer of milk. • Largest number of vegetarians in the world. • The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle. • Science day in Switzerland is dedicated to Ex-Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam • Water on the moon was discovered by India • The Indian national Kabaddi team has won all World Cups. • Shampooing is an Indian concept • Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference. It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man hours for completion and also weighs as much as 50,000 African elephants. A true engineering and architectural marvel. • A floating post office...India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. \ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36654/what-are-some-of-the-basic-general-knowledge-every-indian-should-know Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.