Exploring India’s Culture & Diversity Overview

_____ Remarkable Journey: founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina A Documentary & Education Film Project by Video Dialog, Inc. | Curricular materials by Carolina K-12 at UNC-Chapel Hill 18 Exploring India s Culture & Diversity India is a garden of all kind of flowers, and they know how to live with each other. Afroz Taj Overview India is one of the most diverse lands found anywhere in the world with 29 states, each with their own unique languages, traditions, and religions. In this lesson, students will familiarize themselves with some basic facts about India that highlight its Diversity . Students will then view excerpts from (or the entirety of) Remarkable Journey and utilize the film s information as a jumping off point to learn about various aspects of Indian Culture (food, music, film, clothing, dance, and religion.) Yet, despite such Diversity , Asian Indian immigrants to North Carolina, fellow strangers in a strange land, often rely on their shared roots to build new and unified communities.

o Moni Sawhney notes, “The fathers of the Indian freedom movement, Gandhi, and Nehru, and Patel…the theme was that ‘we’re all Indians.’ I think without our knowing, we began to come closer to the dreams of the founding fathers of India. We did become ‘Indians.’” Why do you think this is the case?

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