Amazing Facts About India On 68th Independence Day

(#) Everyone knows that the Indian constitution came into existence on 26^th January 1950 but most of you don’t know that it is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 448 articles in 25 parts, 12 schedules, 5 appendices and 98 amendments.

The Constitution of India is a handwritten one both in English and Hindi, not typeset or printed. The original copies are kept in special helium-filled cases in the Library of the Parliament of India.

(#) Yoga- the physical, mental, and spiritual practice that aims to transform body and mind originated in India over 5,000 years ago. The earliest accounts of yoga-practices are to be found in the Buddhist Nikayas and later on the Gurus from India introduced yoga to the west.

In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.

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