Saturday, 27 October 2012

Asia - the Biggest & the Most Varied, Focus India

Asia is not just the Oriental countries. The Oriental world has countries like China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos & Indonesia among other nations. The Oriental people have strikingly exceptional features which can be recognized and can be differentiated from rest of the world. The people here in these nations are recognized for being hard working and true to themselves. But Asia also has lot of other nations apart from the countries which the western world knows, trades with or even invades for the much needed oil. Apart from the Incredible India, the Chi-filled China and the Oil-rich Arabian Middle-East, Asia also has Malaysia - Truly Asia, the Enchanting Thailand, the Simply Superb Singapore, the Land of the Rising Sun Japan (or Nippon) among many others.

In this post let's start with only a basic introduction of India - nobody alive can tell you all about my colorful nation created ages ago roughly around 30,000 years ago. Foundations to the first known neolithic settlement were laid around 7,000 BC.

India is a multicultural nation. Two major ethnic groups that are believed to be populating India are the Indo-Aryans & Dravidians. Other few significant minor ethnic groups are the Garo, the Lyngngam and the Khasi people, all of which belong to the northeastern region of the country.

While the minor ethnic groups are many, like Garo, Khasi &  I would focus on the two majorly significant groups - the Indo-Aryans and the Dravidians.

Though it is widely accepted that the Dravidian lineage descended from African migrants who took the sea route via Madagascar. Two groups are fabled to have emigrated from the African mainland after reaching the Madagascar island; one of them sailed to the present day Kerala & Gujarat in India and the other reached the then desolate eastern coast of Australia.

Coming back to the focus of this post - India.

Historically, India has had been a fabulously colored nation. Not only from skin tones, but from literature and religious scriptures is India colored.

The rest of Asia is not as colored as India, no land in the world is more varied and beautiful. Well, not so corrupt for that matter as well. But people here have taught themselves the art of staying happy with meager resources too.