He also founded INTACH in 1984 that seeks to preserve India's art and cultural heritage.

India's classical music tradition is millennia long and remains important to the lives of Indians today as a source of religious inspiration, cultural expression, and entertainment.

M S Golwalkar, one of the main proponents of Hindutva believed that India's diversity in terms of customs, traditions and ways of worship was its uniqueness and that this diversity was not without the strong underlying cultural basis which was essentially native.

India's rich history and its cultural and geographical diversity make its international tourism appeal large and diverse.

* Presented with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1991 by the President of India, making him one of the youngest musicians to receive this recognition from India's governing cultural institute.

India's cultural journey with yoga is now popular in many parts of the world.

During the 1940s cinema in South India accounted for nearly half of India's cinema halls and cinema came to be viewed as an instrument of cultural revival.

In 1987 he was India's cultural ambassador to Russia.

Sivaji Ganesan was the first artist from India to visit the United States, in the cultural exchange programme of the US government, in 1962, invited by the then President John F Kennedy, where he took the role of India's cultural ambassador.

Banasthali Vidyapith is a center of learning for girls from nursery to post-graduate stage, offering them modern education together with India's cultural and traditional values.

The region is popular on India's tourism scene, due to its cultural heritage and diversity.

The celebrations of India becoming a republic take place with a showcase of India's cultural diversity and military might.

* The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), a nationalist political party of India which claims to be at the forefront of India's cultural nationalism, uses the lotus as its election symbol.

Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī ( 973 – 1048 ) ( Researches on India ) recorded the political history of India and military history of India and covered India's cultural, scientific, social and religious history in detail.

India's rich history and its cultural and geographical diversity make its international tourism appeal large and diverse.

India's ability to project power into Central Asia has been limited due to the mountain ranges in Pakistan, and the cultural differences between Hindu India, and what would become a mostly Muslim Central Asia.

India's cultural view of elderly care is similar to that of Nepal's.

The festival played a key role in the development of Hindustani Classical music in India's post-independence cultural history.

In addition to being Northeast India's largest cultural congregation, the Kalakshetra is also a major tourist spot in Guwahati.

Over the years, Dilli Haat has become a venue of crafts, music, dance and cultural festivals, for example India's first comic convention, Comic Con India was organized at Dilli Haat, INA, in February 2011.

This gateway to the exotic charms of the western region of Orissa was the cradle of an ancient civilization and is an important landmark in India's cultural history.

The name of the cultural event in Loyola is Ovations which is India's Biggest Intra-Collegiate event and is held at a whooping expense.

He was a strong critic of the Western education system, feeling it demeaned the Indian students and disrespected India's heritage.

His mission there was the interpretation of India's spiritual culture and heritage.

While in the West he talked of India's great spiritual heritage ; on return to India he repeatedly addressed social issues — uplift of the population, getting rid of the caste system, promotion of science, industrialisation of the country, addressing the widespread poverty, and the end of the colonial rule.

She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology ( by Ranchor Prime ) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage.

The aim is to protect India's heritage from being exploited by foreign companies.

Dudhwa tigers constitute about 1 % of India's total wild population, but the possibility exists of this admixed genetic heritage being passed on to other tiger populations and jeopardizing the Bengal tiger as a distinct subspecies.

All of these have garnered massive public support and are a commendable attempt at preserving the environment and India's natural heritage.

* The next section of the book deals with the spiritual heritage of the Indian nation and talks about developing a model of development based on India's inherent strengths.

Perhaps their most significant partnership was with Marvel Comics to create an Indian version of Spider-Man, which incorporated India's ancient, mystical heritage and coincided with the launch of the second Spider-Man film in India.

* Another spelling for Thumba, India's first rocket launching site.

Another one of his creations, Batul the Great is one of India's earliest superheroes as it was conceived during the sixties.

Another outstanding contribution of the missionaries was the installation of India's first paper mill, set up by John Clark Marshman ( the son of Joshua and Hannah Marshman ) which was powered by a steam engine.

Another one of his descendants was King Bharat, son of King son of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala, and after whom, India's ancient named Bharatvarsha was kept.

The Pamban bridge is India's largest sea bridge and an UNESCO World Heritage monument.

The Brihadeshwara temple, also known as Rajarajeswaram, India's largest temple and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site " Great Living Chola Temples ".

The plant site clean up and India's demand for the extradition of then-Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson are yet to be resolved.

Following India's independence, the India Gate became the site of the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, known as Amar Jawan Jyoti (" the flame of the immortal soldier ").

Younger Singaporeans tend to combine traditional wisdom with religious beliefs introduced when the British colonized Singapore ; for example, South Bridge Street, which was a major road through the old Chinatown, is home to the Sri Mariamman Temple ( a south Indian Hindu temple that was declared a national historical site in the 1980s ), as well as the Masjid Jamae Mosque that served Chulia Muslims from India's Coromandel Coast.

is the launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1.

* India's space agency ISRO, using its PSLV-C6 rocket, successfully launches two satellites into orbit from the Sriharikota launch site: the 1560 kg CARTOSAT-1 stereoscopic IRS series Earth observation satellite, and the 42. 5 kg HAMSAT amateur radio communications satellite.

It is also the site of education and research hubs of the city, being adjacent to the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras ( IIT ), Patrician College of Arts and Science, KRMM college of arts and science, Anna University, MGR Medical University, Madras School of Economics, Cancer Institute and the renowned Guindy Children's Park. Anna Centenary Library, India's largest hi-tech library, is located here.

* Chevrolet India's Optra Magnum site

* Chevrolet India's Optra SRV site

Originally known as the Sriharikota Range ( SHAR ) and later named after Satish Dhawan, it is India's primary orbital launch site to this day.

One of India's most important archaeological sites from the Gupta period, it is currently a tourist site under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India.