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00:00Welcome to India.
00:02If you think you know this incredible country,
00:05I urge you to think again.
00:06In this series, I'm going on a journey.
00:09It's the closest I'll ever get to being in the Hell's Angels.
00:12To explore this ancient, vibrant, complex,
00:16and sometimes bewildering land.
00:17And to experience how old India is rubbing up against the new.
00:21This is a land of staggering contrasts.
00:241.4 billion people.
00:26Extreme poverty, spectacular wealth,
00:29all jostle alongside each other
00:31in a full-on riot of colourful chaos.
00:35From the Taj Mahal, the bustling markets,
00:38the slums and Bollywood movies,
00:41to million-pound homes and exotic palaces.
00:44And why would it be madness to miss out on all this?
00:48Every step, so impressive.
00:52How are you?
00:53Hello, I'm you!
00:54So join me, as I get a glimpse of traditional and modern India.
00:59A journey to feel the pulse of a nation and a people
01:02on the verge of something big.
01:05Hello, I'm you!
01:07Hello, I'm you!
01:21Hello, I'm you!
01:22This is a country where deep-rooted history and old traditions sit alongside new money.
01:27And Delhi, the most populated city in India, the country's vibrant capital.
01:34Now I'm following in the footsteps of the 20 million international tourists that visit India every year.
01:41I'm heading to one of its most popular destinations timeless Rajasthan Rajasthan
01:48is India's most regal state home to camels spectacular ancient forts and a
01:55place you might not have heard of the impressive tar desert but first I need
02:00to get there and my journey is not quite what I was expecting
02:06everywhere you go in India you see construction you fly over new metro lines
02:11new blocks of flats and now I am on a brand new road this 300 kilometer journey from
02:20Delhi to Rajasthan's capital Jaipur used to take visitors five hours but thanks to
02:27this freshly laid tarmac my journey time has been halved and there's not a tuk-tuk
02:32or a cow in sight this will be my first time in Rajasthan I can't help but
02:37imagine palaces shimmering in the heat market stalls overflowing with spices
02:44vibrant colors
02:49how wrong could I be look there's a McDonald's here there's a KFC over there
02:55a subway there the question is which am I gonna go for for lunch I mean I just no
03:02this way I think KFC no no eyes too hot for this indecision I'm just gonna go for a sandwich
03:09over here this is what I'm learning about India the new and the old sit side by side but I'd
03:16like
03:17some of its old world charm
03:21God Jaipur that's more like it Jaipur is home to four million people it was founded all the way back
03:30in 1727 and it's known as India's first planned city
03:35laid out in a grid system a bit like New York it's all centered around the grand city palace
03:43fast forward to the 19th century and Jaipur has established itself as a prosperous city
03:50which is when it adopted something that I think makes it particularly special
03:54it's distinctive pink hue and there's an interesting story about that
04:01in 1876 the Prince of Wales later who would be Edward VII was scheduled to put in an appearance here
04:08in Jaipur as part of his grand tour of the subcontinent and to welcome him the Maharaja
04:14Sawai Ram Singh the second ordered that every building be painted pink which is the traditional
04:21color of hospitality and warmth and today these beautiful rosy buildings are as much a part of
04:27Jaipur's heritage as its glittering palaces and its gems
04:32and gems this city has a plenty
04:36beyond all the forts and palaces i was surprised to find that Jaipur is actually famous for something else
04:43it's the gemstone capital of the entire world
04:48now it's mrs a's birthday soon so i thought i'd pay a visit to the most famous rock shop in
04:53all rajasthan
04:54if not all india
04:59so i've got to be able to find something here
05:03hi hi the gem palace is a jewelry shop run by the kazliwal family and it's pretty overwhelming
05:12first thing i've stumbled across is this display of cufflinks all these numbers on them of course
05:19not one of them is a price but they're very shiny
05:22the sparkling jewels here have drawn in some a-list choppers over the years
05:28there's the queen lady die clinton oh there's susan sarandon gwyneth paltrow amazing
05:38i mean they're all very beautiful i mean some very subtle smaller pieces and some
05:46blablabla not sure mrs a wants a blablabla but i don't know maybe maybe that's where i've been
05:51going wrong slightly overwhelming excuse me hi how do you do i'm alexander i'm samarth
05:58lovely to meet you very nice to meet you this is so it's a very famous place thank you it's
06:03been
06:03around in this exact location since 1852 as far as we can trace back we have always been jewelers so
06:099th generation is jewelers and even before stone cutters goldsmiths it's my wife's birthday um in
06:16about two weeks time i need to find something so jeopardy itself is really well known for having the
06:23most excellent pembert cutters in the world so we also end up having some of the nicest emeralds
06:29these precious green gemstones clock up some serious air miles to reach jaipur mostly coming
06:35from as far away as zambia and brazil oh you see so they're not from jaipur or rajasthan they just
06:41come through because of the the craft it turns out that jaipur is a city known for its skilled craftsmen
06:48and women everything from block printing textiles and pottery as well as jewelry today jaipur is one of
06:56the world's leading gemstone cutting hubs it's estimated that 90 percent of the world's rough emeralds
07:03passed through jaipur to be cut along with rubies sapphires aquamarine and not forgetting diamonds
07:14samoth has agreed to show me some of the valuable pieces from the family's personal collection
07:19and boy am i in for a treat each and every piece is unique if you start repeating if you
07:25start a
07:25factory out of anything then it loses its charm come please have a seat for centuries india was the
07:31world's only known source of diamonds this piece truly shows you the workmanship of india you have
07:40370 carats of rose-cut diamonds which have been set so finely together that you know it really feels
07:46like uh fabric oh my word so you could just as easily wear it that way around you technically can
07:52but
07:53this is just my father used to call it the wearer's pleasure so it's only for the person wearing it
07:58wearer's pleasure that's beautiful i mean it's staggering the vulgar question that i'm uh trying
08:04to not to ask is what is the value of something like this so because we're never planning to sell
08:12it so we're gonna i'm gonna keep that a secret yes but you can kind of imagine it has it
08:18has a few zeros
08:19in there yeah i should think it probably does thousands hundreds of thousands a million
08:24so i don't know just in case you didn't get to see enough diamonds look at this piece this is
08:32what
08:32we call the elephant box and if you look at it closely you can't even count the number of elephants
08:37there are that's just phenomenal detail i feel like a pirate i now understand why why they why they
08:45leered so much over their their treasure chests sam arthur and his family are on a mission to reclaim
08:52some of india's heritage jewels so from this blue little pouch yes you're going to see something
08:59special what you're about to see is 44 carat diamond earrings and if that doesn't mean much the average
09:08rock size of a diamond engagement ring in the uk is about 0.8 carats so 44 is a lot
09:15of diamond
09:16these are gold mine diamonds what are old mine diamonds old mine diamonds are the diamonds which
09:22were found in india in the 18th century and early 19th century and those mines are exhausted now but
09:29french dealers british dealers russians they all came to india to collect these diamonds and they for
09:35and they used to buy it for pennies and then they would sell it for a huge margin back in
09:40europe our
09:41intention now is to actually collect these back can i ask how much these are worth almost 300 000
09:48pounds yeah oops good thing those are diamonds clearly a faux pas diamonds are exceptionally hard
09:56but i wouldn't recommend dropping them in your local jewelers let's move on quickly so this is
10:03a 4000 carat pearl necklace hmm is this a look i'm going to be able to pull off this goes
10:12like that
10:13and you see the way it falls the weight is fabulous so this is what will transform you become the
10:21maharaja
10:21of course i wonder i ever doubted there's just a clip on the back which i can pull it out
10:26from and
10:26this becomes a choker for the weight and ah i haven't got anything for my wife
10:37well that's very successful i got some absolutely beautiful exquisite cufflinks
10:46and some earrings
10:50coming up i explore the pink city in all its glory get a very special photograph taken
10:58and meet jaipur's most menacing residents what's that they say slowly slowly catchy monkey
11:10so
11:15india is firmly in the modern age somewhat surprisingly over 95 percent of households now own a mobile phone
11:26on the same road as the iconic 18th century havamahal palace
11:31i've found a spot that gives a window into a bygone era
11:36dickham hello how do you do i'm ben
11:39tickham is one of india's last working street photographers please may i have my photograph taken
11:45you okay so what thank you excellent
11:51there's nothing modern about this
11:54since the 1970s tickham has been working on this same sunny spot with his unique 1860 box camera
12:03don't move an antique that has been in his family for three generations
12:08i don't move my head at all it's been very precisely position
12:11perhaps i shouldn't talk
12:14i don't know it's been taken yet
12:19amazing so that was his shutter
12:22and there it is he pulled the cap off the camera waved it round in a beautiful very beautiful motion
12:29and back it went on so the exposure was about a second and a half i'd say
12:33known as minute cameras they were once widely used across india
12:38to provide on the spot black and white photography for identity cards passports and mementos
12:44thanks to its built-in darkroom so i mean even now there is something
12:51incredibly exciting about what is going to be produced from this box
12:54it's a bit like watching a vet with a cow if you can imagine 175 years ago this must have
13:01been
13:01sorcery and there is a negative one moment it goes in there into the magic liquid
13:08so the photograph has now been put upside down on this little extension thing
13:15from the end of the of the camera so the photograph is going to be taken of the negative
13:23blimey this is complicated isn't it it's your right vet
13:29so what are you doing in there magic magic magic magic magic i'm not impressed
13:36by digital photography this on the other hand seems to come out of the air amazing
13:41this is skilled photography and here it is good i think it's absolutely wonderful i've got a sort
13:49of h on my forehead like rimmer there you go red dwarf fan and just like rimmer from red dwarf
13:56i've time
13:57traveled back to a simpler more old-fashioned india thanks to tikkam's remarkable camera
14:05most of tikkam's passing trade is made up of tourists which is big business here the city makes
14:13up one-third of the iconic golden triangle along with delhi and agra the holy trinity of indian
14:20tourism and jaipur has a lot to shout about it's just been voted the fifth best city in the world
14:27for
14:27tourists ranking above venice would you believe if you're craving luxury the city has four palaces
14:34converted into hotels and they won't disappoint many tourists opt to follow in the footsteps of king
14:41charles and jackie kennedy by visiting the rambach palace
14:48so far in india i've discovered how hinduism plays a role in everyday life
14:54i'm heading to the east of the city to an ancient pilgrimage site to discover what happens when
15:01traditional beliefs and modern life collide
15:18this is the sun temple just one of many beautiful adornments in and around the city of jaipur
15:25but life in jaipur is not without its challenges in certain districts the residents have to share
15:29rather more than they'd like with some very cheeky monkeys you see in india monkeys are considered
15:38sacred due to the hindu god hanuman who's half monkey half man so jaipur's macaque monkeys are extra
15:47special around here and no one loves them more than this man vj here has dedicated his life to feeding
15:57the
15:57monkeys in fact he's been here for the last 50 years every single day the same spot the same time
16:11vj hello hello hello how are you how can i ask what are you what are you shouting now what
16:19are you
16:19calling as in my sound this is your sound yeah would they know if i did it yes yes yes
16:27very good will they
16:28know very good oh that's good and why do you feed the monkeys the hanuman gold hanuman i see one
16:34course in bookiana save your taggy man go shanti milti here adma go anta anand milta
16:44today is extra special because it's a saturday the most powerful day of the week to worship hanuman
16:50and as a treat vj has brought ice cream many many monkeys many many yes so you have to go
16:58back and get
16:58some more food every day every day same time oh they seem to treat you with respect they my total
17:12place and just like that the marvelous vj cycled off into the distance
17:21vj's love and adoration for the monkeys reminds me of an extraordinary building i visited in delhi
17:27standing 33 meters tall the jande wallahan hanuman temple is truly something to behold construction began
17:35back in 2008 but it took 13 years to complete i don't think i've ever seen anything quite like it
17:41and that's just the outside nearly 80 percent of indians population is hindu and i always find it
17:48fascinating how unobtrusively their religion is woven into their everyday life when i say unobtrusively
17:54there you see next to the metro there's a metro line right there you see the train going past that
17:58is
17:58lord hanuman the monkey god i'll try and give you a rundown of what he's good for protection from evil
18:04loyalty devotion uh success in difficult tasks uh mental focus and courage they're particularly
18:11loved by athletes and students and above all relief from anxiety and nightmares i mean he's a
18:18he offers a terrific package his most auspicious days are tuesdays and saturdays we're actually
18:23here on a wednesday so you might say we've got him on a quiet day we could perhaps go and
18:27have a look
18:30and presumably i've got to cross the road here
18:37now this is lovely as every car and particularly every motorbike comes past
18:42they stop and they turn and offer a little devotion which of course all the traffic behind
18:45gets very cross about and then they turn up and they also do the same and occasionally a bus comes
18:50by
18:50and everybody sings a great commotion from the bus very lovely
19:02hidden within the giant monkey is a winding temple complex you enter via a huge gaping mouth to an
19:09elaborate interior filled with dazzling hindu iconography there's music incense and prayer
19:18passages lead off in every direction with a steady stream pouring in to show their devotion
19:28there's another grotto over here i guess sort of
19:32it's very exciting down into a grotto beneath the grotto a sort of underworld here
19:47oh crikey wow this is terrifying and so lots of strange decapitations going on and spouts of blood
20:03it's incredibly graphic it may look gory but i'm told that these scenes depict the cosmic struggle between
20:09good and evil divine forces fighting to restore order the violence isn't gratuitous it's symbolic
20:17and meant to terrify evil spirits now as i understand it there is there is one godhead in hinduism
20:23and all of these separate personifications are are just other symbols expressions of the same godhead
20:38this is the sacred pump
20:49very dramatic you know what fun to come fun is the word but it's exciting it's an enlivening process to
20:59come and maybe if you're feeling properly protected you can come down here and face the nightmares maybe
21:05that's the idea and you've then kind of wrung them out of your spirit after exploring the depths of the
21:12temple i venture upwards to a revealing outside terrace i am at the very top it's interesting i mean this
21:21is
21:21still part of the temple but it's very much in everyday space it's someone's pants there but above
21:28here you get this view of the heart the great heart cavity and you can see the fingers there recede
21:35apparently the hands mechanically reveal this rather pulpy open heart and there are these gilded characters
21:44inside waving hanuman is said to have torn open his own chest to show his devotion
21:49revealing two gods rama and sita living inside his heart it's a real symbol of unwavering faith
22:00wonderful view of the metro
22:07coming up i head south and meet some potential roommates they're sort of bunk beds and find out
22:13exactly how much money can be made from india's incredible traditional silk markets
22:17they've outbid you go on 402
22:24back in jaipur i discover that these primates aren't quite as cute as they seem
22:29in fact they're known to terrorize the city and every resident has a story to tell
22:37what's the question of the event right there is going to talk to anybody tell you that it would
22:42they eat up post couple together to order that they ought to cover up with us a part of it
22:47last time not going to be needed i will get out of it apparently actually prepared to go
22:53controlling jaipur's menacing monkeys is a hot topic
22:5710 000 monkeys are born in the city every year
23:02that's where vj number two comes in so vj what exactly is your job my job is to catch the
23:08nuisance
23:09monkeys how many do you catch how my poor ass all may do i have in the park under the
23:14other
23:19are there particular monkeys that are a nuisance or is it just the number of monkeys
23:32if i know anything about monkeys they're fiercely intelligent
23:39but you can hear it now go very quickly and then they try to save us
23:45there are lots of wise old monkeys up there we're watching every bit of the setup the food is there
23:51there's a little filament wire what's that they say slowly slowly catchy monkey
23:56i think goody lucky catchy monkey these monkeys up here have been watching everything
24:02no monkeys were caught today but when they are they're relocated to forests outside the city
24:08i'm not sure what the solution is to jaipur's monkey problem but this situation seems to sum up india
24:15well it feels like a very indian fudge this doesn't it we've got vj1 and vj2
24:19both doing jobs that pull in completely opposite directions it's just a sort of beautiful chaotic
24:26totally dysfunctional cycle and somehow it just keeps turning very much like india itself
24:43as the sun goes down and i bid farewell to the pink city it has an entirely different feel
24:51one where time stands still
24:56i can see why so many visitors fall in love with jaipur
25:04jaipur feels like the india of storybooks do you know what i mean with its opulent palaces
25:11forts and jewelry shops it's a city that was founded on strict aesthetic principles artisan districts and
25:19excellence and there's a kind of majesty that still dazzles to this day but what's interesting
25:28is that that sits seamlessly comfortably in the fabric of modern india
25:34in fact this is a country that lives in its past and its present
25:39simultaneously all the while barreling towards its future
25:44well i'm off on my travels again and after the beauty of jaipur i'm now traveling two thousand
25:50kilometers south to the tropical state of karnataka it's india's sixth largest state
25:57and roughly the same size as england and wales combined
26:03most people make a dash for the ancient city of hampi
26:07where they take a peek at the rather marvelous rock formations and magnificent temples
26:13or make a beeline for the famous city of mysore to witness the weekly illumination of mysore palace
26:20one of india's most visited sites
26:25but i'm taking a less trodden path i'm off to somewhere you've probably never heard of
26:31the city of ramanagara and i promise you it's going to be worth it well we've now arrived in a
26:37new region
26:38of india uh we're down in the south and you can see it's a very different landscape a lot of
26:46agriculture
26:46around here for the past 240 years this region has been a major silk producing hub after china india is
26:56the second largest producer of silk in the world this region is famous for mysore silk which is
27:03exceptionally luxurious all thanks to a strict diet made up exclusively of mulberry leaves this area
27:11thanks to its perfect blend of soil sun and tradition has in a very quiet rural understated
27:18way become one of the world's greatest silk producing regions don't be fooled by this humble
27:25set up silk is big business last year the entire silk industry in india was valued at five billion
27:33pounds employing over nine million people now you can't produce silk without silk worms but i'll let
27:41you into a little secret they're actually caterpillars
27:48they're sort of bunk beds stay in youth hostels like this hundreds and hundreds of great fat
27:56caterpillars just picking out on mulberry leaves they have a kind of yellowish tinge when they're ready
28:03and i can see a slight yellowishness about that one but yeah there's goats downstairs yeah goats living
28:10they're very nice very friendly neighbors once the silk worms are all grown up and have a belly full
28:16of mulberry leaves they're encouraged to spin their valuable cocoons and staggeringly each cocoon
28:23contains nearly a mile of silk thread they look like sort of they look like little easter chicks
28:30these cocoons are then picked and taken to the nearby government cocoon market to be auctioned
28:39the largest market of its kind in all asia
28:44it's an emporia of cocoons look at them just crates and crates and crates and crates
28:52another massive room full of these and just more over there as far as the eye can see
28:59i've been told to find a man named syed do you know where syed is syed are you syed
29:05yes how do you do i don't know i've jack fun against the needle in a haystack
29:10syed visits the market daily to purchase 200 kilos of cocoons for his factory which he then makes into
29:17silk thread while silk farming hasn't changed for thousands of years this market has undergone a modern
29:25revolution all the bidding is now done on your phone with a special app what time does the auction
29:32open action opens at 10 o'clock and ends at 10 30 exactly oh 10 30 in the morning oh
29:38so it only
29:39lasts half an hour half an hour everybody has to come before 10 and check the coupons this happens
29:44every single day every day around 40 000 kilograms of cocoons are sold here daily
29:52about the weight of three london buses and it's all done within that tiny half hour window in the
29:58morning so how did you end up in this business my father used to do the same business were you
30:03always
30:04going to do this my background actually saying if because of you standing there my bid is not
30:19working on nobody's worried that we're affecting his child but this is as seen on tv you can say you
30:25can
30:25put that on the bottom we'll move on so how does it all work prospective buyers come around and check
30:33the quality of their lots the aim is to find the softest cocoons because they're the easiest to
30:38unravel and so the cheapest to process into thread once you've chosen your cocoons you need to find
30:44the lot number on the app sound easy well sort of so this this is lots not number 84 the
30:54bid is going
30:54more 366 rupees is that a good fair price no this is not good one um and what about over
31:01here what are
31:01these like is this is this a good this one is a good one i mean even i can feel
31:05that that's i could
31:06sleep in that i could just curl down and just well it is good now we just need to win
31:13it we've got a lot
31:15number here 273 it is going 200 200 i mean this is a steal isn't it i will apply 400
31:21okay there we go
31:23400 our bid is appearing on a board it's just gone up the another person has bidded 401 i bid
31:30you
31:31this is a bidding war go for 402 go on 402 he's gone 402 that's hilarious so the current is
31:39what five to
31:39five uh i will be that last five seconds what are you going to put in five to ten rupees
31:45extra you're
31:4615 seconds left
31:50five seconds left you bid i'm with it five three three and bid is over
31:57look at that you've got it for five three three
32:02700 pounds has got syed 150 kilograms of some pretty decent cocoons
32:07now all he needs to do is spin them into silk thread a real bargain if you ask me probably
32:15coming up i travel west and journey deep into rural carnatica
32:19to meet a woman who shunned city life for a slice of paradise
32:26and go searching for india's most elusive predator the tiger oh alarm calls tiger
32:38india's population has more than tripled in the past 70 years
32:43from 361 million to over 1.4 billion people despite this huge rise india has managed to preserve
32:52pockets of wilderness
32:56so i'm making the 100 kilometer journey west from ramanagara to bandit poor one of 107 national
33:03parks across the country to get a taste of india's wild side the national parks been so incredibly
33:11successful both from a conservation and a breeding program point of view that they're
33:17they begin to run out of space today india is home to more than 3600 tigers
33:24a figure that has doubled in the past 20 years and now amounts to 75 percent of the world's entire
33:30tiger
33:30population success right well not quite india's tigers are still in danger and now more than ever
33:39people and predators are beginning to feel the squeeze
33:44those beautiful deer that i guess is free-range food i'm meeting wildlife artist and accidental
33:53conservationist sunita dariam who for the past 30 years has lived on the extremes of the tiger reserve
34:00in the village of mangala one of 15 villages that border the reserve hi alexander hello how nice to
34:07meet you and you sunita runs a charity that compensates villagers who've lost valuable livestock
34:14to the reserve's predators which makes sense when you realize just how close people are living to them
34:20what i can't get over sunita is this is the actual reserve here isn't it well this is my land
34:25and then
34:25the reserve there yes look at my fence elephants are here every day oh so hang on do you get
34:30it right
34:30here here they were here last night and what do you hear what tells you that an elephant's there
34:37you can hear them is it breathing taking the bleeds and a few farts here and there and sorry
34:46you have elephants here that presumably means you have tigers here yes i came out by my room the other
34:52night and there was a tiger here while this might sound romantic to have a tiger come to tea the
34:57reality is far from it especially if you own livestock you know in india some of the poorest
35:04communities share the same space as the wildlife the villagers started uh asking me to come out and
35:10take photographs of their cattle that had been killed i realized nobody no scientists no big ngos
35:16coming to help these people so and what was happening tiger comes kills their cow they go and put
35:21poison poisoning of carcasses as revenge killing the villagers were systematically wiping out our
35:28tiger and leopard population but from the farmer's point of view they're using their livelihood
35:32that's their livelihood yeah and so they're thinking to help put this into perspective the average
35:38daily wage around here is 400 rupees roughly three pounds fifty and prized livestock can cost upwards
35:45of 700 pounds per animal when i started the mariama charitable trust i said we need to start paying
35:52compensation to stop poisoning and people said you're mad it cannot be done where you going to get the
35:56money so that your charity pays the compensation and is that sufficient to stop them poison more or
36:02less it's poisoning has completely stopped really it's actually worked the mariama charitable trust works
36:10across 660 villages and pays out instant compensation to livestock owners but before any money is exchanged
36:18every kill is evaluated by sunita's team so alexander yes these are my compensation files
36:27these pictures aren't for the faint-hearted this was my first kill
36:30this was a huge uh hybrid cow yeah and right near my house actually and that's unmistakably tiger is
36:40it oh yes yes so every single kill is identified or the teeth marks claw marks and these give all
36:46the
36:46the the details of how much we've given the check number yeah who has killed it with a tiger leopard
36:52wild dog thumbprint if they can't write the data you're assembling here is extraordinary so you can
36:58it's years of data yeah years and years and are you seeing increases as the as the years go by
37:04yes because there are more tigers and not enough space this is a result of a good thing because of
37:10the success of the wildlife programs but it was going to get more and more tigers there are going to
37:14be
37:14more you know what we need to share the same space with all the wildlife ultimately it's very
37:20difficult to farm in these areas they have the tolerance but when they lose something that's
37:25costing them money these are very poor people yeah and you're dealing with poverty the whole thing
37:29is to make people financially secure if we can help them there people are very happy to live side by
37:36side
37:40india's growing middle class is driving a tourism boom across the country and safaris have now become a
37:47popular weekend getaway every day around 600 people visit the bandit poor national park and they're all
37:55hoping for one thing to see a tiger i've never seen one in the wild before sunita has kindly agreed
38:03to let
38:04me join her on an evening safari and there have been whispers of a tiger roaming nearby just a couple
38:11of
38:11hours ago this tigress tried to catch a spotted deer they saw her actually hunting and she missed
38:22oh alarm calls alarm calls which means a tiger approaching what animal's making the alarm call
38:30spotted deer there can you hear that i like that quietened down now all the spotted deer were on high
38:42alert so the tiger is moving
38:57chatting with the peacocks that was not bad actually oh look at that wild elephants oh yeah more
39:07oh wow indian elephants are a subspecies of the asian elephant
39:18they're smaller than their african cousins and just like india's tigers they are an endangered species
39:24they part of the same yeah yeah look at that little boy he's got tusks oh yes he has
39:32it's very precocious yes that was an alarm call did you hear it so that's over there that's yeah
39:41so i mean that's where the time whatever has moved it's moved from here and gone that side
39:46she's hunting she's hunting at speed
39:52quickly hold on hold on something is there that's just come through is it yes amazing
40:01okay hang on hang on hang on
40:08somewhere here
40:12tiger spot a deer alarm calls there there but she's moving around one sec one sec all the deer are
40:24coming
40:25this way they are mighty nervous
40:29they can sense something she's that side somewhere
40:36the ever elusive tiger you know
40:42oh alexander you have to see this there is a leopard sitting on a fork of the tree
40:50oh there can you see it it's got a kill also it's quite high up it's safe from other scavengers
40:57right you know it looks terribly relaxed up there i must say he has no he has no time
41:02so he's like bugger off everybody oh look turning to look at us oh oh my
41:12now the sun's going down so picturesque it's so beautiful
41:18i love it with a passion that's beyond reason
41:24spending just a short while here in the park i can totally understand sunita's love for this place
41:30it's a corner of india where the air is fresh the land is untamed and wild animals roam free
41:41next time i'm in the modern city of bangalore where the future is galloping towards us
41:48but the luxury of the past still very much lingers would i be thrown out these shoes would not be
41:54allowed
41:56and i discover plenty of surprises i haven't even heard of it in a city that's bursting at the seams
42:05it's the closest i'll ever get to being in the hell's angels
42:27so
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