Being creative out of Cliché

Here are some of the amazing facts that will surely astonish you as it did me. 1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island 2) India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river. 3) Indus Valley Civilization is the world’s oldest civilization. 4) India, hence, is the world’s oldest, most advanced and continuous civilization. 5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception. 6) India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA. 7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined. 8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world’s largest gathering of people. 9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space. 10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today. 11) India has more mosques (300,000 ...

1.  Narendra Modi is India's 15th prime minister. He secured the largest mandate any Indian prime minister has won since 1984 in the country's mammoth general election in April. 2.  Modi is the leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). 3.  Modi holds a cult of personality status in India, which is just under 80% Hindu. He is criticised by some minority groups and the left-wing media for his conservative values, with some saying the BJP has bred a culture of intolerance towards minorities. 4.  He was entered into an arranged marriage as a teenager to Jashodaben Chimanlal. When he filed his nomination for prime minister, he was forced to acknowledge the marriage after nearly five decades of claiming to be single. 5.  Modi was born on 17 September 1950 in Vadnagar, Gujarat, making him the country's first prime minister born in independent India. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi makes a rare visit to the UK 6.  Modi was only ...