It is [in India] that the ingenious manner of expressing all numbers in ten characters originated, by assigning to them at once an absolute and a local [positional] value. a subtle and important conception, of which the simplicity is such that we can [only] with difficulty, appreciate its merit.
A wise man, if he sees a rainbow in the sky, must not point it out to anybody.
A fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.
India's longest highway is the NH7 which runs between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to Kanyakumari in Tamilnadu, a distance of 2369 km.
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.
The Tamil slang for something free of charge, oasi, is derived from the abbreviation, OC, which expands to On Company's Service. The company in question was the British East India Company which stamped its official mail with these letters to avoid having to pay postage.
Akbar the Great literally means Great the Great making it a tautology. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Ali Akbar.
The family name of the Nehru family is actually Kaul. A Kashmiri ancestor of Jawaharlal Nehru named Raj Kaul came to be called Raj Kaul Nehru as his jagir was situated along the banks of a canal (a Nahar). The Kaul was later dropped.
Bangalore's NIMHANS has a Brain Museum (officially the Neuropathology Museum) which boasts a collection of 300 brains.
Ledikeni, a Gulab Jamun-like Bengali sweet, was named after Lady Canning, the popular wife of Governor General Canning. It is apparently a slightly larger version of the Pantua.
According to journalist, writer, and professor, G.V. Desani, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's name literally translates to Action-Slave Fascination-Moon Grocer.