India
India is a country in south Asia.The capital of India is named New Delhi. India is the seventh largest country in the world by the area and the second country with most population. It’s over 1,2 billion people that lives in India. In India they speak more than hundred different languages, but the official languages are Hindi and English. They also have different languages in some states, for example Urdu.
The biggest town in India is Bombay (mumbai) with most population in the country. Bollywood is in Bombay. Bollywood have the biggest film industry in the whole world. Hollywood is the most famous but Bollywood makes more movies. In Bollywood it creates about thousand movies in a year. The movies are normally about a love story and contains much dance and music. The movies contains also many strong feelings and dazzling story.
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India have a tropical climate. In a year they have one rain season and one dry season.
In India it exist many different animals. Many of the animals that used to live in India are now extinct. Some of them are India tiger, India elephant and Rhino.
In India they eat different food depending on if you live in North India or in South India or in east India and which religion you belong to.
In North people eat much wheat, but in south and in east they use much rise in the food.
The first question you get when you are visit a restaurant in India is “veg or noveg”. It’s India for “are you a vegetarian”. They always ask that because it’s many people that are vegetarians in India because of their religion. Most people are hindus in India, but it also exist muslims and Jainism.
In India they eat with their right hand. It’s a tradition to not eat with the left hand because it’s unclean. How you eat with your hands depends on if you are from north or from South India. In south they eat with whole hand and in north they only eat with their fingertips. No other country have so much spices in the food like India. In India they also have very spicy food.
In India they think that cooking is a gift from god.
Some things that you should see when you are in India are Taj Mahal and the river Ganges. Taj Mahal is a monument in the town Agra that exist south around the capital New Delhi in India. Taj Mahal was one of the worlds sevens new wonders year 2007. Taj Mahal was built in the middle of 1500. The ruler Shah Jahan built it for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
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Ganges is a river in north India. Ganges is the principal river in India and the most holy river in the hinduism. In the hinduism they think that the water is cleaning you from sins. When they have a funeral in hindu they burn the body and strew out the ashes in Ganges. The rivers water is very dirty and you can die if you drink too much of it, but it’s a very long and beautiful river.
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