Improves digestion Once we touch our food with our hands, the brain signals our stomach that we are ready to eat. This helps the stomach in getting ready to prepare itself for the food, thus improving digestion.

According to the 2011 census, 79.8% of the population of India practices Hinduism, 14.2% adheres to Islam, 2.3% adheres to Christianity, 1.72% adheres to Sikhism, 0.7% adheres to Buddhism, and 0.37% adheres to Jainism.

Traditional family values Traditionally, the Indian family adhere to a patriarchal ideology, endorsing traditional gender role preferences, and abstains to the ‘joint family’ structure, where three or four generations including aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and grandparents will all live under one roof.

The family is an important institution that plays a central role in the lives of most Indians. As a collectivistic society, Indians often emphasise loyalty and interdependence. These large multigenerational families can also be essential to providing economic security to an individual.

The traditional Indian family has a set of values that is passed on from one generation to another. Indian family value system is unique, as it is intertwined with our rich cultural history. One of the longest surviving institutions of India, ‘Indian Family’ represents the three pillars of Loyalty, Integrity and Unity.

Indian Culture

• Diversity.
• Pride.
• Innovativeness.
• Adaptability.
• Harmony.
• Modesty.
• Light-heartedness.

Respect is an extremely valued component of the everyday life of people in India. Children are taught from a very young age to always respect their elders. Even as adults, the elderly are still at the top of the totem pole.

Both cultures have its own advantage , western one is more dynamic , realistic and quite flexible to accommodate individual concern, whereas Indian culture is more of traditions, lot more emotions built into customs and being tradition based , deviations /modifications are quite slow to come up.

During the Maurya and Gupta empires, the Indian culture and way of life were deeply influenced by Hinduism. Hinduism reinforced a strict social hierarchy called a caste system that made it nearly impossible for people to move outside of their social station.

Despite the fact that today Thailand is a Buddhist majority nation, many elements of Thai culture and symbolism demonstrates Hindu influences and heritage. The Devasathan is a Hindu temple established in 1784 by King Rama I. The temple is the centre of Brahminism in Thailand.

1. India gave the world its first university – Takshashila University. As early as 700 B.C., there existed a giant University at Takshashila, located in the northwest region of India. It had 300 lecture halls, laboratories, a library and a towering observatory for astronomical research.

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