In Sanskrit literature and particularly in the Manu Smriti, the region between the Himalayas and the Vindhyas was known as आर्यावर्त (Āryāvarta), the abode of the Aryans.
Quentin Tarantino informed Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap that the animated sequence in Kill Bill was inspired by an "Indian serial killer film which showed violence as animated". The only candidate that fits this bill is Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan (Abhay in Hindi).
In 1987, famed freedom fighter, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. He was then a Pakistani national and thereby became the first non-Indian to be honoured so.
In 1990, the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian honour bestowed by the government of Pakistan, was awarded to Morarji Desai. He is the only Indian to have been so honoured.
In his Brihat Samhita, Varahamihira asserts that sweet ground water will be found near termite mounds located east of a jambu tree at a specific distance and a specific depth of 15 ft to the south of the tree.
Rukmini Devi Arundale, famed danseuse and founder of Kalakshetra, turned down an offer to become the President of India in 1977 because she would not have been able to walk barefoot in the corridors of the Rashtrapathi Bhavan and could not bear security guards.
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini used Hindi as his pen name when he composed ghazals. His grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, emigrated from India to Khomein in Iran in the 1830s.
