Indian culture is famous across the world due to its diversity in music, art, dance, language, cuisine, costume, philosophy, and literature. The important characteristics of Indian Culture are civilized communication, beliefs, values, etiquette, and rituals. India is well known for its ‘Unity in Diversity’ across the world. That means India is a diverse nation where many religious people live together peacefully having their own different cultures. So, we can see people of different languages, dresses, food habits, and rituals living with unity in India.
India is having 29 states and 7 union territories across all the directions. There are 22 languages and several religions like Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, etc. exist in India. Hindi is the official language of India. However, India is the oldest civilization where people still follow their old cultures of caring and humanity.
Even though people became modern in today’s world, still they celebrate festivals as per the customs.
Festivals play an important role in Indian culture and tradition. People celebrate variety of festivals in India. Popular festivals like Diwali, Dussehra, Navratri, Janmashtami, Shivratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Eid-ul-Fitr, Bakrid, and many more festivals are celebrated with great devotion. Other than this, many harvest festivals like Makar Sankranti, Chapchar kut, Pongal, Sohrai, etc. are celebrated with happiness all over India.
By
Ms. Pratima Chandrakar
Shivom Vidyapeeth, Raipura