Wow Shalom!
you seem to know quite a bit about India. You are right! the "Cow" is the most probable candidate for such a topic, for Indians.
Here is a humorous account on the same topic :
Quote:
TOPIC:
What is the most important animal in your country? Why is the animal
important? Use reasons and specific details to explain your answer.
(This is a Real TOEFL Topic!)
ESSAY:
"He is the cow. The cow is a successful animal. Also he is four footed. And because he is female, he give milks, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement. Horses do not have any such attachment. What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally."
"His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species. Also his other motion (gobar) is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes like Pizza, in hand, and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating.... His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards."
"He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his body whereupon he gives hit with it....''
visit:
http://www.shashitharoor.com/article...melikegod.html
for the complete article "He is the same like God"
By Shashi Tharoor
"The Hindu", Online edition of India's National Newspaper
March 03, 2002
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And there's another topic (in actual TOEFL topics) which asks us about the most important plant in our country.
From my elementary school textbooks, I vaguely remember that I was told it is the "coconut" tree for Indians.
But then It is not a
plant. is it?
Hmm..
Raghuveer.