Takshashila - Worlds oldest University

India has a long and venerable history in the field of higher education. In ancient times, the country was known to have been home to the oldest formal universities in the world.

More than 2700 years back a huge university existed in that ancient India where over 10,500 students from all across the world came for higher studies.This was the Takshashila university of ancient India (wrongly spelled as Taxila today). It was an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist center of learning but wasn't as well organized as the University of Nalanda.

Bharata: The Great Emperor of India

Bharata was an emperor of India, and is referred to in Hindu and Jain theology. Bharata had conquered all of Greater India, uniting it into a single political entity which was named after him as "Bhāratavarṣa". Bhārata Gaṇarājyam (Republic of Bharat) is the official Sanskrit name of the India.

Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent

 

Kumari Kandam is the legendary sunken continent, according to many of the ancient extant Tamil literatures and some of the Sanskrit literatures. Almost 100 years back tamil nationalists came to identify and associate Kumari Kandam with Lemuria, a hypothetical “lost continent” posited in the 19th century to account for discontinuities in biogeography.