ART AND CULTURE

by DEEPAK AGGARWAL
(PANCHKULA)

1.India has one of the world’s largest collections of songs, music, dance, theatre, folk traditions, performing arts, rites and rituals, paintings and writings that are known, as the ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (ICH) of humanity
2.India is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, collectively known as Indian religions
3.Namaste (Hindi), Namaskar (Marathi) or Namaskara(Kannada) or Namaskaram (Telugu, Malayalam), Vanakkam (Tamil),Nomoshkaar (Bengali), Nomoskar (Assamese) is a common spoken greeting or salutation, though becoming considered old-fashioned by some