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Amazing Shocking Facts Of India That Most Indians Don't Know - 2

6. That it is illegal for a child in India to neglect their parents after their retirement.Right to maintenance— Maintenance is a right to livelihood when one is incapable of sustaining oneself. Right to maintenance forms a part of the personal law. Obligation of a husband to maintain his wife arises out of the status of the marriage. Hindu law, one of the most ancient systems of law, recognizes right of any dependent person including wife,children, aged parents and widowed daughter or daughter-in-law to maintenance. The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, provides for this right.

 7. Kerala tops the "Highest liquor consuming State" list in India, not Punjab. Kerala accounts for the country's highest consumption of alcohol followed by Maharashtra and Punjab.

8. The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle. The first rocket was so light and small that it was transported on a bicycle to the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

 9. India has a spa for elephants.Every year a group of pampered elephants at the Punnathoor Cotta Elephant Yard Rejuvenation Center receive elaborate spa treatments. The elephant yard is attached to the Guruvayurappan Hindu temple in Kerala, India. The rejuvenation center – which is attached to the famous Guruvayurappan Hindu temple – can host up to 59 elephants, and the tusked giants are happy to laze in the water while workers scrub them clean with brushes.The elephants play a key role in Kerala's legendary temple processions and – with July considered a month of rejuvenation for humans and animals alike – these ellies are certainly not complaining.

 10. The world's biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren,India. He is head of the world's biggest family – and says he is 'blessed' to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.  

 11. Largest Funeral attended:Funeral of CN Annadurai, India, 1969.Widely thought to be the largest funeral attendance in history, 15 million people took to the streets of Chennai in memory of the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state. was widely respected as a writer and speaker and also extremely popular after he made Tamil the official language of the state, rejecting Hindi.

12. HINDI is not the national language of India. In fact there is no national language in India. Rather we have many regional languages. The Union Of India has Hindi(Devanagari script) and English as Official languages. And every state legislature has these two plus the regional language as the official language. English is a more popular language in South India than Hindi.

13. The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.

14. Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.

15. Today, India has the world's largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!