Between divided land and the threat of modernity: India's Brokpa people

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High in the Indian Himalayas, the Brokpa people fear for their way of life as modernity catches up to the isolated community living on disputed lands. Brokpa people recount myths of ancestral links to Alexander the Great's army, who invaded in the fourth century BC, and ancient Rome.

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00:00A few days after the attack...

00:02...the people of Andhra Pradesh remember their mother.

00:19Will the person disappear?

00:21It takes time.

00:25The same song will be lost again.

00:58We have to do a little pooja, but we don't do it regularly, so it's closed now.

01:28My father told me not to do it, but my son-in-law told me not to do it.

01:34I can't go to heaven.

01:37If I go to heaven, I can't listen to Buddha's teachings,

01:43I can't do pooja, I can't meditate, I can't do this and that.

01:49I can't kill anyone.

02:02No part of this recording may be reproduced

02:05without Mooji Media Ltd.'s express consent.

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