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India in Vedic age.

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Lucknow is India’s entry to the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy! Famous for Awadhi cuisine, Lucknow offers wide range of street food in both veg and non-veg categories.

THE KARDASHEV SCALE: MEASURING A CIVILIZATION'S POWER The Kardashev Scale, proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964, ranks a civilization's technological advancement based on its energy consumption: Type I: A civilization that harnesses all energy available on its home planet, including solar, wind, and geothermal. Think global unity and sustainable tech. Earth is still a Type 0, but we're inching closer. Type II: A civilization that controls the entire energy output of its star, possibly via megastructures like Dyson Spheres. This is interstellar-level mastery. Type III: A galactic civilization, tapping the energy of an entire galaxy. Imagine billions of stars and planets working in sync - pure sci-fi! Some speculate about Type IV (universal energy control) or Type V (multiversal), but these are theoretical leaps.