at b. the felt. so watching the w. news up next our documentary series takes you inside the world of the god the aloha are a nomadic community and india i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour and don't forget you can always get the latest headlines on our web site that's d.w. dot com and we're of course also on instagram and twitter to find us under act. on the call for a way for me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching. more than half the world will be living with limited water resources we haven't had to think about our war i think that you were is over it's a financial product like any other financial. thing it is changing your most important promoters you know is. necessity or commodity

starts march 22nd on d. w. . my name is do you know. i was born a portal for england but i have an indian mother. 10 years ago i came to mumbai the center of the indian film industry to pursue my acting career. i quickly discovered that 2 different worlds coexist in india on one side be upper class a broom and go condom in high rise buildings but how some of the richest people in the world on the you of a community is trapped in poverty who cannot progress with the rest of society. this is the story of one of those communities.

my work in india has taken me to many places and one of my favorite locations is register. there i love the way they have preserved the heritage and culture the magnificent monuments forts and policies. but after many years of being here i realized that i had only touched the india thought i was exposed to in my daily life. i decided i needed to explore the side of india if i didn't know.

and i just found i often saw a nomadic communities who seem to be leading a totally separate life from the rest of india's developing society. not mixing with others awful. you see them traveling on that one of the cots looking like people from india from centuries ago as though they have been trapped in time. i discovered that they are called by guardiola hogs goddy is the hindu you work for a college on the hot meaning laughs.

i really wanted to learn more about these interesting people and hopefully discover a side of india. i knew nothing about. my journey started in jake or the big city. i wanted to find out from the local people what they knew about because they are the highs. are no god he aloha they are not nice people why are you wasting your time with them they're not worth it if you take my advice leave them alone. why are you looking for those worthless people play tug tourists like you think. i. i go i don't like these people they're not good people

they sit at home doing nothing they don't work and they pick on tourists like you know you've figured out that. let's not talk about them they're going to say. all the reactions were really negative but that made me more determined to find out for myself. i was told that there was a god ya know hot community who had set up a company in a village called dawson not far from jay park. the next day i set off to find. the out i believe 10 people saw the top of the bus right there all day and now we have to slow down the physicality is just casually crossing the road at. this i mean guys so we are just reaching the whole set up. that's a little bit skeptical our you know i was expecting it to be. dirty and ugly

and but it's quite shocking actually. this is the seed found outside help me by living. by. i was told when i was in a car i think i'd be all the fuck up or down i think i thought. i was scared to walk out not only that i doubt that i could look at it out of the example i was after all of the negative comments about the guardian the hostile hurt i was nervous about how they would react to me i do what i did i was i was like got out of the car everyone surrounded me i soon

realized that i wasn't in any danger and that they were eager to tell me about how they have to live a little was ok i was. good outside i was referring to my wife and child live in the dark there are no services for us we have to bring water from a long way away and pots on our heads there are no bathrooms no toilets guardiola homes are the poorest of the poor we have no work. no matter the manner i mean you can see how we're living in slums most of us don't have proper houses a few do but most don't we're living in the dark because we don't have the ration cards to get services connected and we don't receive any government benefits. there's no electricity connected here are the big cities have all the services like water connection we don't even have that and the most out we have to go in the

bushes to go to the bathroom we don't have an a thing we don't even have water for washing we don't have houses to shelter us from the rains. because you can cook the food we have to go to sleep hungry. there is a lot there are so many families living without a house just by the side of the group. who did not want to take on. that money for 9 months while i was pregnant i was living on the road. looking at this. as it is. ok so this is one of the houses if you come inside with me. to really know like money i'm not been here if you come in. we got like 2 beds. we have one fine. lot of chickens and it. was a car so. i just i don't know how people are living.

right away like a come with me and i don't know. look at this see how we live. go to bed well yes there's a bed here yes you. know it's mother for us. so yeah this is one where. where you're saying 4 to 5 people will sleep there's no bad because there's nothing here it's just. the smell is so bad. yeah. this is the bathroom where we wash our asses through. guess what i'm going to get we get water in the bucket ok so they get the water from outside and they bring it here and they use it ok. but.

there's absolutely no privacy at the other man or the woman that the women have to behave like but everyone was absolutely no privacy at all. i was shocked by the living conditions. this particular group of god your hearts have been comes on the site for several months living in their cots in tents making use of any hot build out houses or derelict buildings that they could see. their wish is to be settled in one place but finding a permanent location is difficult they have no status on the authorities can move them or not i think. it was the most tense over there as i walked around it made me sad to see the deprivation in this community however it seemed that no matter how little these people had they were still making the best of their situation. keeping

their large and extended families fed is a daily challenge for the guardian hans. if you know. how old is he is 9 months. how many kids if you got just one this one ok. we want him to go to school. right now i want him to study but we have no my. we don't have enough money for food so how can we make him study the part i know that it was he could be anything he might be an administrator and stand up for our rights none of us are educated if my child studied he could be a good administrator. it had been a really emotional day. as

i left i wanted to give them some gifts. but. i was upset by their reaction because it made me realize how desperately poor they are. or other. want to know. but i think. going back that night i felt a deep sense of guilt and subnets i would have a comfortable bed but the guardians wouldn't. i wondered why in such

a developing country of these people living this way. i wanted to find out more detail about the guardiola has our regions i did some research on the internet. but guardiola ha's forefathers came from the last state in righteous time in the capital city she taught is the historic she told god for regarded as their spiritual home. in the late 60 of century the kingdom i walked was mahabharata talked to god. and i ask where his loyal followers and the royal blacksmiths making weapons for the king and his army. they walk a mile under attack from the miracle emperor across whose army greatly outnumbered my husband of the tops of warriors. in 1576 the battle of how they got into place a mile run of attack on his followers were forced to flee. but your loss was loyalty to marana fatah and chose to live a no magic life on the pull of cots they vowed never to return to she taught until

the miracles were defeated. i discovered a piece of news film about big ideas from 1955. india's premier honest and narrow reason it made this unique procession through the town of to talk guy the story really began 400 years ago when the guardian know as all royal blacksmiths about to live in a magical life never even sleeping under a roof i'm told our city was liberated a sad story but it's happy ending came when mr merrill has to the flag on the victory tide of to toss up next most of us have 1000 of them have come home again in term time settling down to lead a normal life that lucky. this made me even more curious because the guardian ahas i had just met had certainly not settled down to lead a normal life. i decided to travel to talk about ford which played such an important part in the history. in 1055 and the new india's 1st

prime minister of the god years by all that's inscribed on the stone flight into tour. in a ceremony at the ford event released the guardian from their bounds. i could find no virgin records of the guardiola has history so i wanted to see the stone for myself and discover exactly what the 5 were. they took the following vows never to return to she taught never to live in a house never to sleep in a bed never to light a candle and never to drink water from a well they adopted a very simple nomadic lifestyle moving from place to place and living in the bullock carts for 400 years they followed their bows and remained faithful to their . 100 native who had also granted land i'm benefits to their guardians

but sadly subsequent governments failed to deliver on those promises it's really shocking that these people who fought for their cause.