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this week: bang for bangers, smoggy sunsets and angry anglegrinders. we go to india, as india goes to the moon. get ready, your indian experience starts now. as soon as you step off the plane, india hits you like a big, hot wall of noise. it is life turned up to ii.

it's always the traffic. is the tip just to kind of step out? the sound is deafening! everyone‘s honking. for 70 years this country has been independent of british rule, and the cities that have sprung up around kinda. and india has found a niche in the wider world. half of its 1.2 billion people are aged 35 or under. maybe that's why it's known for its it know—how, its outsourcing. and the bosses of some of the biggest tech companies in the world are indian. but it hasn't had as much luck in taking over the world

of consumer technology. after all, how many indian tech brands can you name? the truth is that although there is a middle class of consumers not that many people here can really afford the latest of very much at all. we're hereto see how india and, let me tell you, it is reaching for the stars. in 2013, india became the fourth spacefaring nation to launch a probe into orbit around mars and, unlike those who came before them, they did it on their first attempt. the indian space research organisation, isro, has been gaining a reputation for doing tons of successful space stuff on a shoestring budget. their marsmissiencame

that's less than it cost to make the film gravity. and, in february this year, they made history again by launching a record 104 satellites on a single rocket. it could just be that india has created the perfect combination of big brains with big space experience, but a mentality for doing things on the cheap. say, land a robot on the moon for the space equivalent of small change. how confident are you that this will work? laughs that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover on the moon. december. gfiigtlzsffiff the team indus space craft goes into two days of earth orbit

and then, boom, 11.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling down to the surface and, if all goes well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre, sends back hd video and wins the prize. what could possibly go wrong? rahul narayan is the co—founder of team indus and has been here since the start of the project, way back in 2010. about landing on the moon. you did an internet search on how to land on themeefil ~ absolutely. laughs did it have any useful information? yes. failed to the moon. six years later, there are about 100

people working very hard here and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff. star wars in particular. even the toilets are appropriately labelled. and they've built themselves all the things that a serious space company should have, like a mission control room, a model lander that makes smoke and a simulated lunar surface complete with a rover to go in it. so what do you use to simulate moon dust? we just went to a stone quarry and asked them to give us the milling output. that's what this is — about 150 microns. it has electrostatic properties, which we're not able to replicate. it's supposed to be very, very electrostatic. so that means it will stick to the rover? that's correct. that's one part that will get into every perforation, the lens of the camera, everywhere. just like national space agencies, testing every component and simulating every stage

of the mission is a huge part we're making sure we do everything right. we're justnot makingzltfanql= we will make it frugal, specific to the mission, but there's absolutely no corners that we're cutting. and, to look at it from a more philosophical way, we have one shot to win this. we don't have a flight spare, so if one blows up we can go and fly the other, we have to get this right. team indus is one of five start—ups from around the world that have secured launch contracts for their rovers. any other team and so perhaps be the first team to land and win! to sell some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will onboard too. you're both going to get to the moon at the same time. how is that going to work?

it's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover? it's going to be crazy! in a manner of speaking, yes. so what do you expect to happen?! so it's a race, it will be a very interesting race, and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed, let's see which one makes 500m first. i would put a laser gun on yours. make it to the moon in the first place. space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. you mitigate the big pieces and then you start mitigating the smaller of code that made it through could kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus‘s

low—cost, make do approach. jugaad. i've come to the centre of mumbai, to dharavi, asia's second largest slum. here, in its tiny alleyways, jugaad is all around, as a desperately poor population reuses as much as is physically possible'rf' s": built by workers who flocked to the city over hundreds of years, some of the houses here date back to the 1840s. it is an intense experience in the middle of an intense city. you really do get a sense of the scale of the place from up here and it's a weird scale as well, because it's actually quite small. it's only two square kilometres, but around 1

million people live here. it's phenomenally densely packed and it's notjust people living here and doing nothing, either, this place has a working infrastructure and a working economy. this place really does work. 10,000 dharavi businesses generate 30 billion rupees for mumbai every year. they make things and they recycle things. like all those plastic bottles drying on the roof, which are shredded into reusable plastic pellets. the whole production line is is itsslf s fiéfifiaflugaaéi iffff; this is where they make the machines that recycle the plastic, so i guess this is a factory. brace yourself. 0nce finished, these machines will chew up the plastic,

which is then washed, sorted and dried. the work is heavy and hard and for a wage that affords the most meagre of existences. it's incredible to think that 55% of mumbai's population lives in slums like this one. up ahead, there is a pile of shredded denim which they use for fuel. they burn it to fuel the kilns, just like they burn a lot of stuff for fuel here. and there is smoke everywhere here. you can really tell the air quality is very poor. you just have to take a few lungfuls and it starts to burn the back of your throat, it makes your eyes sting. the smoke is a necessary evil for the people of dharavi. like most of the developing world, pollution has been the price the smog that gives mumbai

its spectacular sunsets has also made it the fifth most polluted mega city in the world. and when the sun disappears before it hits the horizon, you can well believe it. pollution in delhi a national emergency, with harmful pollutants more than 16 times the safe limit. and it's notjust caused by all of the traffic. so, where does it come from? i was surprised to find out a lot of it comes from diesel generators.,, e, e. see, the electricity in india isn't very reliable, but plenty of businesses need guaranteed power, so they have their own individual generators that fire up whenever the electricity goes down and that means there are loads of exhaust pipes like this all over the city, which regularly belch out all kinds of unpleasant stuff.

when you start looking for them, they're everywhere. even the mobile masts have backup generators.