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00:00yeah welcome to india if you think you know this incredible country i urge you to think again in
00:06this series i'm going on a journey the closest i'll ever get to being in the hell's angels
00:12to explore this ancient vibrant complex and sometimes bewildering land and to experience
00:18how old india is rubbing up against the new this is a land of staggering contrasts 1.4 billion
00:25people extreme poverty spectacular wealth all jostle alongside each other in a full-on riot of
00:33colorful chaos from the taj mahal the bustling markets the slums and bollywood movies to million
00:42pound homes and exotic palaces and why will it be madness to miss out on all this every step
00:49so impressive oh and this and maybe this so join me as i get a glimpse of traditional
01:01and modern india a journey to feel the pulse of a nation and a people on the verge of something
01:07big
01:21so far on my indian adventure i've delivered lunches across a monsoon soaked mumbai
01:28okay doesn't get any worse i've marveled at the pink city of jaipur this astonishing builder
01:36and dipped my toe into mumbai's millionaire housing market can we close the deal here come on done
01:44and for this final chapter of my indian odyssey i'll be discovering what indian wine really tastes like
01:51i haven't even heard of it too much have a cocktail at a bar that churchill used to frequent
01:57that's made with orange squash how hilarious i haven't had that since the 70s
02:03but i'm starting back in the city of dreams where i'm hopping on the city's phenomenal new metro line
02:11i'm on my way to see something well rather unexpected
02:15mumbai is one of the most densely populated cities on earth and its transport network has been
02:21groaning under the strain for years but over the past decade more than four billion dollars have been
02:28spent on a brand new metro designed to make the daily commute a little less hectic
02:35well it's very nice lovely wide carriages but i'm not just commuting i'm actually traveling
02:41somewhere i didn't even know existed until today array forest which is part of this vast eighteen
02:48thousand acre area of old woodland that's part of mumbai
02:54and we're traveling through what looks like ancient jungle and then the ancients of teetering slums on
03:02this side spread across 1100 acres are a forest is known as mumbai's green lung not only
03:11does it absorb a substantial quantity of the city's pollution it also supports an extraordinary
03:17diversity of mammals reptiles birds and insects
03:26step into the forest and the contrast is immediate silence and calm
03:33and still just a stone's throw from the city's noise and chaos
03:39near birds singing
03:43gentle patter of rain and then if you listen very very carefully
03:48you can hear a bollywood film studio which is just over there film city is just right on the edge
03:53of
03:53this primeval forest so you get this lovely clash of the very very ancient and the very shiny loud and
04:01new
04:03and incredibly ra forest and the surrounding national park have the highest density of leopards to be
04:10found anywhere in the world
04:14numbers have risen sharply over the past decade a testament to both conservation success
04:20and the species remarkable ability to live alongside an urban center
04:26i'm here to meet rajesh sanapuaz
04:30are you rajesh yeah how do you do i'm zander very nice a biologist who was first drawn here to
04:37study
04:37the elusive cats i mean so within urban mumbai why the why is there such a density of leopards they
04:43can eat
04:44anything dogs that's the easy food for the leopards oh really yeah leopards survive on dogs rats goats
04:50and sadly sometimes people in this state alone there are around 20 human fatalities a year
04:56but lately rajesh has turned his focus to something even scarier so i start with the leopard yeah and
05:04then end with spiders and so how come we just suddenly realized leopards are interesting but they're
05:09nothing on spiders yeah so obviously it's very important to work on lesser known species like
05:13like spiders like because it's equally important so in mumbai we have around five to six different
05:18species of tarantula like in mumbai the the tree dwelling spider like this big like including the
05:24lakes they generally are canopy dwelling spiders yeah so are you okay with spiders well that's a very good
05:32question rajesh um you kind of learned to pretend to be okay with spiders you have you're forever
05:38having to take them out of children's rooms and it it doesn't do if i'm scared we need to respect
05:43the
05:43subject that you are working on well indeed that's that's a nice way of putting it maybe i'm not scared
05:48of spiders i just have a very ingrained respect yeah respect rajesh loves to photograph these elusive wee
05:54beasties and today our quarry is the sinister sounding trapdoor spider
06:00so this is a perfect spot for travel spider yeah so let's see if we find one a master of
06:06disguise
06:07that lives in a burrow sealed with its own hinged hatch i found one have you yes is it in
06:15here uh
06:17try more no it's not been here no no i'm not seeing it i mean i know it's very difficult
06:24is it there no
06:26not oh there yeah this is a burrow this is how they make and this is the door yes i'll
06:34just try to
06:34open it yeah yeah open there it is there's the bar so that's the lid that's the leaf fashioned out
06:40of bits of leaf and they're actually holding the door oh they're holding there yeah so that if any
06:45insects come close to the door they get vibrations they'll come out they'll grab the prey and they'll go
06:49inside your sometime you have to use stick you want me to do the small stick yeah just do it
06:56for a
06:57minute and there she is she's coming out she's coming out the early monsoon has meant that the
07:02trapdoor spiders have retreated deep into their layers here's a shot rajesh did earlier
07:12it's a really fascinating subject it really is um i'm quite glad she's gone down into the burrow
07:17i was a little bit scared she was going to appear i was going to jump out of my skin
07:20do you like
07:21spiders or not well i mean i think now i i understand spiders maybe if i can persuade myself
07:28to understand spiders i can pretend to uh to tolerate them a little bit better it's very important
07:34to understand their behavior to understand their biological role there is amazing uh called
07:39spiders are called jumping spider so they have a particular behavior called courtship behavior
07:44that's a fascinating area isn't it the courtship rituals of spiders the male spider so they actually
07:51dance to impress females so don't we all some of rajesh's best work i think has been to record the
07:59mating dances of the jumping spider yes very ibiza
08:11coming up i travel south to bangalore india's fastest growing city where i nearly get thrown out of a club
08:19well these shoes would not be allowed right here and cause a humanoid teacher meltdown
08:26oh lord oh crikey
08:38my dizzying journey through india has brought me to the city that offers the clearest glimpse of the
08:43country's future bangalore or bengaluru as it's officially if rarely known
08:50once a sleepy colonial outpost it's exploded into a sprawling metropolis alive with ideas energy and
08:58innovation it's now india's fastest growing city it's hard to imagine the transformation of bangalore
09:06just a generation ago it was famously a quiet green city beloved by pensioners for its cool climate and
09:13its gentle pace of life now it's a global powerhouse where billions have been made through ambition
09:20innovation and above all by attracting some of the greatest brains on the planet back to india
09:26but all of this progress has come at a cost the population of the city has exploded to over 14
09:32million the roads are choked and the city's fast running out of water
09:46but let's rewind 150 odd years to 1896 when bangalore was a quiet outpost of the british raj
09:53and after a long day running the empire officers came here to the bangalore club to relax and unwind
10:01thank you very much lovely to be here thank you
10:06now it's the sort of venue where the well-heeled play tennis and meet for lunch
10:12so it's pretty elite here but they've clearly made an exception for me
10:21ashwin shetty is the current president of this 157 year old institution
10:27so ashwin when did the club start so a group of officers in 1863 got together and started an
10:34informal club it was only formalized in 1868 when the club was established as the bangalore united
10:41services club and these chandeliers they're beautiful yeah i mean it's very elegant very high
10:46ceilings and it has this wonderful calm right in the middle of the madness of bangalore out there
10:51so in hindi there's a word called caspa which basically means an oasis so in the maddening
10:56city of bangalore this is an oasis right in the middle and i notice you're wearing a jacket and
11:01very smart shoes thank you i'm a bit of a scruff comparatively would i be thrown out if i turned
11:06up like this well these shoes would not be allowed right here but otherwise you look perfect right too
11:12how long does it take to become a member is there a long waiting list there is approximately to
11:16become a permanent member of the club you would need somewhere between 18 to 20 years as the waiting
11:21preview oh it's like joining the mcc probably probably so what are the criteria for for membership well
11:27honestly um the only criteria is that you need to be clubbable but i suppose in the early british
11:35era it probably meant uh a gentleman who could hold a drink right yes i see what you mean but
11:41now of
11:41course it used to be affable social gracious and that's good enough well i may not be wearing the
11:49right shoes but now i'm here i'm dying to try the club's signature cocktail something called a ghost
11:57besides i've got a juicy bit of history for you thank you now between 1896 and 1898
12:04winston churchill was stationed in bangalore as a young cavalry officer in the british army
12:11and famously he left an unpaid bar bill of 13 rupees here at the bangalore club
12:18i think it's fair to say churchill's feelings on bangalore were mixed he delighted in the cool
12:24climate and wrote at length about the colorful flora and fauna on the social scene he was rather
12:30less complimentary he wrote to his mother that bangalore was a third rate watering place i think
12:37he particularly felt the lack of stimulating company and so he threw himself into reading and
12:43self-improvement perhaps you might say laying the foundations for his future career as both politician
12:48and author even so that's no excuse for not paying your bar bill
12:59that's made with orange squash they haven't had that since the 70s
13:03do you know what i'm going to do i'm going to pay his bill for him i'm going to settle
13:06up right now
13:07what's that 20 rupees well that covers interest i should have thought
13:12i love this having seen how the privileged few still enjoy some of the luxuries of the british raj
13:20you only have to step outside to be reminded that for the vast majority wealth is a distant dream
13:28in 2021 the world bank estimated that 90 of the population that's 1.3 billion people lived on less
13:37than 10 dollars a day india seems today to stand at a crossroads a rising global power still grappling
13:45with entrenched poverty i mean the flyover is a pretty good symbol for modern india i feel they've
13:54just sort of built them over the in many cases over the slums so you have these sort of super
14:00metro
14:02systems you have these new roads flying on and it's like a sort of superstructure one sort of gets
14:08the feeling of this new india sort of being built over old india
14:16i'm heading out to see firsthand the daily struggles faced by those at the very bottom of the social ladder
14:26india's caste system is a millennia old social hierarchy that divides people into strict
14:31hereditary groups and traditionally this would determine what their status was what their
14:37occupation would be and what their social interactions would be
14:43the system of castes is like a pyramid at the very top are the brahmins traditionally priests and
14:50teachers followed by the warrior class then the merchants and business people
14:56finally at the bottom and of course the largest in number are farmers workers and laborers
15:06but outside the caste system there is a huge group of people who used to be called the untouchables
15:14today they're known as the dalits there are more than 200 million dalits in india that's about one in
15:22every seven people and they do all the dirty work those inside the caste system won't do although
15:29discrimination is officially outlawed its effects are still felt deeply throughout many aspects of indian
15:35life today
15:39this is one of bangalore's meat markets tucked away behind the aptly named slaughterhouse street
15:46is a small corner where dalits work segregated from the other butchers earning less than 10p for
15:53every four goats heads they prepare
16:00photographer asha thadani has spent years building a relationship with these dalit men
16:05who work here day in day out in appalling conditions
16:11what actually what's going on here what are they doing uh what these guys are doing is that they're
16:17burning goat heads to rid it off the fur and then the butcher collects it and uh slaughters it for
16:24the brain the heads and the hooves are uh considered taboo by many cultures uh it's so strange they're
16:31preparing the most expensive part of the animal and it's it's valued at the highest and it's being
16:37processed by the lowest caste wow it does strike me that this is not only dirty work it's extremely
16:43unhealthy work you know if you're doing this seven days a week yeah in very poorly ventilated yeah you
16:51know i don't know what they're burning here but that's uh it's incredibly hot when you look at the
16:56furnaces they use the lowest grade of cooking coal it's like what is used in the railways it's very very
17:02toxic and a lot of them die at the age of 40 45 is the average age yeah really it
17:10strikes me that
17:10you cannot leave your caste yeah there's no mobility between the castes it's not like the class system
17:17so caste is something that you're born into it's this uh rigid uh system of social hierarchy and ranking
17:25that cannot be reversed the stigma of untouchability is one of india's most uncomfortable truths
17:37and still today few dare to talk about it although his family are educated and have escaped poverty
17:44this dalit man has never spoken publicly about his background now for the first time he's agreed to
17:52talk on condition of his remaining anonymous what age were you made aware of your of your dalit
18:00heritage you know back in when i was in school i went to a friend's house and then his mother
18:08offered
18:08me tea and then she asked me who's my surname see the surnames give it away yeah the mother's face
18:16came
18:16down you know that's when i first time felt the jolt of it you can go to their house but
18:21as soon as
18:22they identify that you are a dalit they'll give you a separate a glass of water separate plate to eat
18:28in because they don't want impurity it's the worst thing oh it's the worst thing imaginable on anyone but
18:34particularly on a child it's such a i mean i there are so many wonderful parts of indian culture but
18:41this
18:41is one part of it that i just can't get my head around i can't it's it's beyond cruel
18:49the stigma of impurity the cesspool of discrimination it's it's really a fight honestly
18:57there is a lot of discrimination in terms of the villagers they kill them uh so there are a lot
19:03of
19:04cases of that or they ostracize them they will not allow you to enter the temple they will they
19:09know human dignity there is no escape from it because that's how the system is and then the
19:14people who are basically privileged and educated they will also not kind of go against it or raise
19:23their voice because that will upset their own status quo it really is a fight for survival for identity
19:28for acceptance the thing that is just inhumane about this is the rigidity of it and that nobody
19:39is given any chance to there's no redemption i mean that that feels just unendingly cruel
19:48yeah that's what is yeah sometimes painful
19:53so what what what are the options for you i mean do you think maybe do you ever think you
19:57might go
19:57and live abroad no i don't want to live abroad i mean like i love this country i mean like
20:01with all its
20:02discrimination that i go through yeah i mean we'll fight it yeah future for this country i think i'm
20:08very excited uh for it uh with yeah with all its problems and all that i think i'm very hopeful
20:14that
20:14you know things will change and they are changing to be honest it's happening in the cities for sure good
20:18the age-old traditions which are like you know very regressive that has to be broken and i think that
20:26it
20:27i feel it will be broken because for a survival of a good life you need that absolutely
20:35thank you so so much for speaking i can't believe this first time you you've spoken about it but it's
20:41i feel greatly honored and thank you for your honesty thank you this is always the first time i think
20:45i'm glad i did it coming up i'm pitting my wine tasting wits against a full-on expert wrong
20:54ah and i meet the scariest teacher on earth you're gonna be in my nightmares i think
21:07i'm in bangalore my last stop in india and this city is a living breathing contradiction
21:14where 25 million pound penthouses tower above overcrowded shacks nowhere in india is the gap between
21:22rich and poor more stark than in education at one end you have a state system that is in crisis
21:28over
21:29a million teaching posts unfilled crumbling classrooms and falling attendance at the other end of the
21:35spectrum it's rather a different story this school in bangalore the indus international boasts riding
21:45stables two orchestras activity rooms a fitness center art dance and music studios libraries expansive
21:52playing fields sprawling gardens playgrounds and a swimming pool diana dance please pay attention in
22:00clashing oh yes and robot teachers fascinating morgan and all this can be yours or rather your child's
22:08if you have a spare seven and a half thousand pounds a year there is no greater scientific mystery than
22:14the
22:14human brain the big idea is that robots like this can teach literally any subject in any language to anyone
22:23whilst the human teacher pays more attention to individual students and they can be adapted to
22:29suit all age groups vignesh rao is in charge of producing these animatronic educators so we started
22:37five years ago and we've come now to the seventh generation of our humanoid and this is where we
22:42manufacture all of them with our tech team all our software and hardware engineers now obviously this is
22:49one of the most elite schools in the country are you hoping that this model will then be extended to
22:56the rest of india absolutely and and this is you're going to be in my nightmares i think i'm just
23:04looking
23:04at those eyes sorry no offense but there we are goodness the future models we are going for will have
23:10human-like expressions so they will smile they will frown they will react to your emotions and build that
23:16emotional connect between the student and the machine when they're teaching french they can go
23:20wow absolutely absolutely well i think it's about time i experienced one of these robo teachers
23:28in action hello everyone using chemical dr sarajini rao is the head teacher at the school
23:37and wants me to see firsthand how the eagle seven interacts with the students and how they can interact
23:43with it i will be projecting certain words for you for example red or blue but you must ignore what
23:53the
23:53word says and must instead say the color of the text
23:58red green blue i'm confused i'm not quite seeing the educational breakthrough here students what we
24:11did is a psychological test where your brain automatically read the words instead of focusing
24:18on their colors movement i mean we've all endured monotone teachers but eagle here she takes the
24:26biscuit and it's a very dry one what a fascinating half hour that has been i mean absolutely extraordinary
24:34it may just be that i'm just of a generation that that doesn't get this but i'm slightly scared by
24:39this
24:39i feel awful speaking speaking ill of eagle while she's sitting blinking at me in the corner there she's
24:45listening she's going to us i don't like that alexander armstrong my card's been marked it's so far
24:53from my experience of education the humanoid takes away the mundane tasks of a teacher
25:00and gives the teacher the time um to connect with the students so we turn to the great oracle in
25:07the
25:07corner for our for our factual information and then we have the sort of softer edged mentoring and and
25:16help from the teacher i yes i i remain i remain a little bit cynical just because i i believe
25:23so much
25:24in humanity and i i fear particularly as we sort of get whisked down into a world of ai the
25:31one thing we
25:32really have to treasure we have to treasure very genuine human contact watching all this i've been
25:38dying to have a bit of a chat with eagle myself eagle it seems wrong to be chatting about you
25:43in the
25:44corner there without bringing you into the conversation when it comes to subjects where
25:49it requires a more nuanced approach uh and there isn't one clear and simple answer how will ai approach
25:59that it appears that there may have been some errors or misinterpretations in your recent inputs
26:11i've encountered this in call centers before i think we've met it appears you have a mix of text
26:17fragments in your messages feel free to provide more context or clarify your questions or comments so
26:25i can assist you effectively oh lord oh crikey oh dear looks like eagles had a bit of a meltdown
26:39quite
26:39literally i mean at least mr mcleod would nip out for a smoke well it's obviously not quite there yet
26:49a few
26:50teething problems but despite my fuddy-duddy views on education i think we laugh at the idea of robots
26:57teaching in millions of classrooms in the not too distant future at our peril just 30 miles outside
27:05bangalore on the final leg of my journey across india i've reached the lush nandy hills fertile ground for
27:13an industry few would expect to find here now this is fun i've come to the grover wine estate just
27:22outside bangalore and the clever people here are trying to convert not just india but the rest of the
27:28world to the delights of indian wine in the uk one in five adults don't drink in india it's kind
27:37of the
27:37opposite only around 14 do the people at grover wines want to persuade more indians to drink wine
27:45the potential market is huge my guide to this exciting new world of indian wines is international
27:52wine expert and sommelier manuela leconte she's italian and knows her stuff now i rather love wine
28:00so i'm relishing the challenge hi alex welcome to india thank you very much and i heard that you are
28:08a wine lover isn't it i am i do like wine and i guess that you haven't tried an indian
28:13wine before
28:13right do you know i haven't i haven't even heard of indian wine yes but india is a leading winemaker
28:19right now so i would like you to taste this two glass of sparkling wine one is from india and
28:26one is
28:27uh from south africa and you want me to guess which is south africa yes exactly i want to focus
28:32first
28:32on the aroma on the flavor and then see let's try this one
28:47i'm tempted just because of the comparative climates to suggest that might be the indian one
28:54what do we say to that manuela wrong i'm sorry
29:02is a blend of shiraz and more bed with a little bit of union that is a white grape variety
29:15i can smell the richness of this bouquet from here i would have no idea i'm gonna just say which
29:22one
29:23i prefer okay go for it i prefer this one now you're wrong are you finding that indian people
29:31like drinking wine so red wine are the most sold wine in india they like it bold they like it
29:39very
29:39defined in term of you know flavor and even color so red is considered an auspicious color here excellent
29:48should we try another
29:51is a souvenir blanc from marlboro so cool climate a lot of bright fruit
29:58so now alex i'm challenger again this time we have a souvenir blanc
30:11i think that is a slightly purer one i think i think that is yours okay in this case it's
30:18wrong
30:18no it's wrong oh well should we try another so what have you got here so we are still into
30:25white
30:27india's wine industry is still in its infancy producing around 20 million liters a year
30:33australia by contrast bottles over a billion i think this one is the indian one please say i'm right
30:40no i've got it completely wrong i think you need to come again for some wine tasting here in india
30:46i was anticipating that this was going to be quite easy indians drink over six billion liters of alcohol
30:53a year but the market for wine is still tiny at only one percent of that it's growing steadily and
30:59i'm having no problem whatsoever enjoying these local vintages so the left-hand one i think is yours
31:10well i guessed one right so i might as well tuck in what have we here
31:18that's delicious i know we have a mission to turn indian to one making country and we look forward
31:26to the future so do i i think it's gonna be amazing thank you very much i've really enjoyed that
31:33i'm now quite drunk coming up i go sari shopping in downtown bangalore the place to buy silk yes
31:39where i stumble upon a band of brothers and we have two more brothers this is incredible so we're on
31:44number nine and get whisked off to meet the whole family look how beautiful
31:55it's my last day in bangalore and indeed in india and i'm off to visit the qatari silk palace
32:02they've been selling traditional pure silk saris here in the cub and pate market district of bangalore
32:08for 70 years and who knows i might even find another present for the lovely mrs a
32:15ah hello welcome thank you very much indeed i'm alexander now i was told i had to come here
32:21this is the place to buy silk yes yes oh i sit do it ah goodness so what have you
32:29got show me your
32:29show me your wares on my indian travels i've already seen how silkworms spin their elaborate cocoons
32:36hundreds and hundreds of great fat caterpillars and how they're sold at market and sent off to be
32:42wound into silk threads and here at the qatari silk palace i'm seeing the luxurious end product
32:48beautiful india makes around 20 million meters of saris every year that's enough to stretch
32:54halfway around the world and it looks like the qataris are going to show me most of it
33:00this is your shop yes yes yes my name is mookish mookish yeah and your name is my name is
33:06gonna
33:06connect yes we are all 10 brothers there are 10 brothers 10 brothers all 10 brothers and your
33:12number eight so seven and eight yes so yes i'm looking for something for my wife yeah 70 years ago
33:19the qatari
33:20family left rajasthan for bangalore and ever since silk has been their lifeblood very soft isn't it
33:27three generations on and between them they run six sari shops he's also my brother oh it's another
33:34brother yeah what number are you i'm last one 10th oh you're number 10 yeah is number four number four
33:40excellent you have to get your go and put you in order i think you've all been shuffled they're amazing
33:44colors this is beautiful i like this now the hologram that mark there see that is how you tell it's
33:52real
33:53so apart from this label of authenticity there is another simple test to prove it's the genuine
33:59article someone told me that you have to you have to burn it and the smell of real silk is
34:03like the
34:04burning but it's with burning hair there we are city just smell it just smell it smell it
34:14i can confirm it smells like her oh we have two more brothers can i see if i can guess
34:21your number
34:21please um number one number one number one and number two number three oh wonderful welcome it's
34:28lovely it's lovely to meet you so what if i can ask such a vulgar question what is the uh
34:34what is the
34:34price of one of these around 28 000 so that's about that's about 250 pounds i think in uh oh
34:43look
34:43is that what have we here oh that's very lovely this is two gram gold in this two grams of
34:51gold
34:51silk wedding saris started around 150 pounds but introduce a bit of silver or gold and prices can soar
34:58back in 2008 one sold for 50 grand and we have two more brothers uh hang on this is incredible
35:06so
35:06we are number nine nine and six and number six one two three four five six seven eight right and
35:11you're
35:12you're all in the sorry business yes this is extraordinary what a what a what an empire but
35:19there's a whole other layer to the qatari family first brother son oh first brother son ah
35:25it's a grandson that's wonderful and there's more there's another grandson he's another grandson
35:30oh he's your son son of number four there we are there's another grandson as well
35:36and you all work in silk as well oh girls so who are you i'm six mama's daughter so daughter
35:44of sixth
35:44son very good i'm i'm the daughter of the third son the daughter of the third son excellent so are
35:50you
35:51involved in the sari business no no we would prefer wearing saris instead of selling i see what you
35:56mean yeah exactly you don't get one out of the box and go actually this is too good no you
36:01can't have
36:01that that one's going in my fault yeah so how many are you in total 10 brothers
36:1038 so when you have parties it must be massive
36:14should we have a party now yeah
36:19i've only just met these lovely people and already i'm off to an impromptu house party this is just great
36:30i mean this is very exciting the closest i'll ever get to being in the hell's angels come on we
36:36ride we ride
36:40it seems the qatari family share an obsession with electric scooters they own 20 of these machines
36:46between them it's their way of being green and staying sane in the atrocious bangalore traffic
36:53it's the best way to see the city not only is it fast and beautifully ventilated it's it's great fun
37:01you know a little bit of adrenaline just to keep keep things turning
37:11just 10 minutes scoot and we're in the suburb of binny pate greener quieter and with great views
37:17across the city well this is very grand the whole family used to live in the busy crowded district
37:24above the sari shops but a few of them have moved out to a new more airy high-rise development
37:30wow look at this you have beautiful air flowing through it turns out i've been invited to meet the
37:39whole qatari clan en masse oh look how beautiful this is wonderful all this is very flattering but i've
37:54come empty-handed not even some flowers from the garage now one might imagine this kind of reception
38:00would feel uncomfortable very un-british but this family are also welcoming but i'm just running with
38:06it thank you and it feels good and it looks like they're sorted for flowers lovely thank you thank you
38:13so much jay janindra ah i was told there would be a few snacks and refreshments but this feels like
38:21a
38:22state banquet ah yes these are all from gujarat jodhpur and as and how it comes this is basically a
38:33mixture of
38:33all the states all the states um that's homemade yeah that's homemade let's have a bite then i'll tell
38:47you it's a slightly bit on uh the spicier side um it's delicious what is that oh it's called furodi
38:56laddu in simpler words so it's basically on a sweeter side do you know what it tastes like shortbread
39:04have you ever had shortbread before uh i've not yet not yet that's what this tastes like it's very good
39:09thank you
39:10hmm we have a dessert it's been a joy to spend time with this extraordinary family
39:19you're the youngest where generations mix effortlessly and there's a constant sense of warmth
39:25and harmony do you think there'll be any more cousins or are you hoping you'll be the youngest
39:30you'll be the youngest yeah you'll keep that title
39:36i mean the thing i really love is how close-knit you all are you all you all get on
39:41really really
39:42well you're so friendly and uh and you take such pleasure in each other's company yeah such warmth and
39:48good humor but what i wonder do you make of modern india you know where is where is india going
39:54it is developing it is developing on a high rate also additionally i feel there are a lot more
40:00youngsters now yeah that are getting into different streams right so they want to do some something
40:06out of the box some students that actually wish to take a business right some are into music there
40:11are some are into a design some are into entrepreneurship some are into food so are you optimistic
40:17absolutely yes 100 good well um i would just love to thank you all this is hilarious i came to
40:26buy a
40:26sari and i've i've made i've lost count of how many friends but it's really it's lovely it's lovely to
40:33meet you friends to be exact yeah how many i've made 38 new friends there we are well thank you
40:38very very much indeed thank you all what a great treat it is to meet you thank you
40:47sometimes you meet people who have extraordinary drive or warmth or enthusiasm and it can give you a
40:53real lift but to meet 38 of them all at once is just extraordinary what a wonderful family
40:59they're so tightly integrated with one another and so extremely loving it's it's a wonderful
41:07modern indian success story and with a wonderful view to the future of india as well all those young
41:14children with their dreams and ambition it's been it's been such a treat to spend time with them
41:25whatever i expected when i arrived in india whether it was towering palaces this astonishing
41:32building elaborate temples teeming cities
41:40incredible food it's a festival of starch immense poverty astonishing wealth 370 carats of rose cut
41:51diamond well i have indeed experienced every drop of all that and so much more i'm not quite drunk the
41:59wildlife alexander yes you have to see this oh there the sheer scale of this vast subcontinent
42:08all of it here in super saturated color
42:14but more than the astonishing energy of a country on the cusp of something exceptional
42:20i've been deeply moved by the warmth and humanity so here are all your family
42:25of everyone i've met here
42:26i was expecting something
42:33and by the extraordinary belief they carry whatever their circumstances
42:39as india's past and present wrestle to shape its future one thing feels certain this is the indian
42:47century and somehow we're all part of it
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