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Flora and Fauna
The Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, is a species of bird in the peafowl genus Pavo of the pheasant family, Phasianidae.
It is a forest bird which nests on the ground laying 4-8 eggs. It eats mainly seeds, but also some insects and fruit. The Indian Peacock has beautiful iridescent blue-green plumage. His tail feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when it is fanned. The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen.
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Indian Music
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (popularly known as M.S. or M.S.S.) (September 16, 1916 - December 11, 2004) was a renowned carnatic vocalist. She was born to a musical family, in the temple town of Madurai, situated in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. M.S. started learning carnatic music from a very early age and cut her first disc at the age of 10. She then began her Carnatic classical music training under Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and then Hindustani classical training under Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas.
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People
Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू, Javāharlāl Nehrū) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), also called Pandit ('Scholar') Nehru, was the first Prime Minister of India at independence on August 15, 1947, holding the office until his death.
Nehru served as the prime minister of India for these 18 years consecutively. Nehru died in 1964, having achieved much, yet still - according to a quote from Robert Frost which he had always kept on his office desk - feeling he had so much more left to do. Read more...
Architecture
Qutub Minar is the highest stone tower and one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in India. It is currently one of Delhi's most visited tourist attractions. The Qutub Minar is 72.5 metres high and vistors must climb 379 steps to get to the top. The diameter of the base is 14.3 metres wide while the top floor measures 2.7 metres in diameter.
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Cuisine
Biryani is a lavish rice preparation seen in the Indian subcontinent which includes a heady cocktail of spices, basmati rice and meat and/or vegetables. Its preparation is a long, time consuming one, though the end result can make the time spent well worth the taste. Though there is more than one method of preparing a biryani, the Hyderabadi Biryani is by far the most known
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