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average. my name is simmons. sony. my name is steve, i'm going to college and i'm $27.00. i'm 25 in india, a new generation is on the rise. the largest population of young people in the world's most populous nation. since prime minister never end remotely swept to power, he's been looking to take india to the top. is this the start of a new indian age? what defines this young population which is charged with securing tedious future? you can't achieve anything with power different adelanto, i have many hopes and dreams. they gotta be in boerger. if i'm not reading something, i don't is over the,

the, the team that i'm seeing, my name is simon saw me. it is by, i'm 22 years old to think i'm not kind of i ride my bike from village to village making videos. i'm also, and also i'm in the tv, i've written on many issues in the bottom of the cubby. simon lives in the heart, in northeastern india. the name of her village is chand corey, which means gate to the moon. the villages here are poor, even by indian standards. the average income is less than 2 euros a day. that's just below the poverty line. most families here lead traditional

lives. the girls are usually married by the age of 17. the simon wants to tread a different path, making my house. i got married at the age of 12 and a year off of the wedding. i was to develop their level here in the villages. the goals don't have the freedom they deserve. was my articles, reporting and videos, i want to tell them, well that that goal should have the right to do is just as freely as boys but the same rights as boys get at the deal. go with i need to have something like they expect today, simon. is planning a report for youtube channel about medical care for women in the village up on time? yes. when you, what do you do that's open up on kind of i said ok. you all of us. and as i take some sort of medication and hope it will get better, somebody then you go back to what i. yes. awesome. and if you feel really bad,

then i go to the hospital and most of afford most of a poor is 2 hours away. yeah, brianca quick. simmons reports are funded by a private initiative through a journalist from deli, none of the young women here are making any money. the goal is to promote rule women and portray a diversity of opinion. it says you have to work day of the day in this age and you for it. well, what do you do? love that i take medication and get back to work though and carry on working. yes. so they've got to get the. 7 support some of the vehicle for some of the level of government. comical nega, derek. many media don't do the job properly towards that at the more they you want the same level of bye but say another, but it was a mom with the we don't trust the media in a hickey, i will be out. they just need phrase moody's mother. he will not be,

but if he's done this, yeah, this is done. that was, i think it was, but will they never christmas? sonia the moody government was give what i named getting simon is in a hurry. now. she wants to get the video online by the evening. she's one of many who no longer want to be constrained by indian tradition. the my name is, see the cottage and i d age that the 3 and i am the see will the founder of on the life sciences. by way, seminar team, dear. we developed a product in as it is free for sinusitis, 1st of its kind and deeper digna as those pre they want to launch the product in india 1st. then we want to take it that caused the bonus. you as of the p,

m e p g most jania jeff, i don't know. his company is still a small start up with 6 employees, sharing office and lab space and hardware, but with other medical and biotech startups. but he hopes that will soon change petra, but isn't tell him gonna. in one of india's wealthy estates, it's regarded as the center for life sciences, biotechnology, medical products, and the pharmaceuticals industry. the goal is to create 400000 new jobs in the sector over the next 5 years. the average income here is already 5 times higher than that of the poor estate har. for cba, the 100 moody has also contributed to this increasing wealth. as prime minister the follow point them on the corner takes from the research,

find the field from and ship point of view. he hadn't done incredible job. the amount of stops we just find it. and the number of unicorns which are gone out of windows is different entry. remarkable. see if i realizes that it could be years before his start up turn to profit evaluated here in food. i would this is the i started eating some odd one down in on the, for this the regular tragic 3 wouldn't be getting into some corporate image on my, i phone or different. but i mean that it's such a being an entrepreneur that's and issues. and i, i want to achieve things is see the, and his business partner and body, many of the young ambitious generation of founders and entrepreneurs in india like we've been doing. and just sort of in,

we'll get this is if i'm not getting something i don't deserve it, let me see. i can make it happen. that's it. the a landing page or human resources available in india who have capability to look at the fundamental research that is in the as big as trend. i don't see any country have the positioning from the fundamental research point of view of the weakness would be we need to think that out. we need to think that fundamental disorders, what is happening in india across the borders, and make people aware that this is happening in india causes and brought them into the

backend rule, the heart in the most of a poor region. the kind of meeting i'm my name is so now i'm debbie submitted by 3 children. 2 boys. one girl has my husband, does it require that they work in the fields or at home to be ready to go there soon? um is 27 and can't read or write like a quarter of the indian population. and of the women here in the har, only half can read in right. she lives a traditional life here, like her mother and grandmother before her. like many others,

she's found the doors of upward mobility close to her combination fast, but of all it's company that there's not enough work here for us. that's what i need, but they have that's why we can't give our children an education or what's your faith? i'm going to try to get hold of a job because i'm not educated. i don't have a decent job. it's been a copy of the kids have been sometimes and we sit down to eat. i don't know. i'm going to manage it all in the that the poverty, unlimited opportunities are a huge problem in the heart of the indian states. it's the 3rd largest in terms of population and the most densely populated the average daily income here is less than one euro 70, very little, even by indian standards. the,

there are many brick works around most of our poor. there are more than 6000 of these brick kilns in the heart. thousands of families live and work here in extremely harsh conditions. a bonded labor and child labor are still the order of the day. but har is regarded as india is least develop state . many tried to leave and find work elsewhere in the country like most here. so now i was family lives from what they can grow and raised themselves subsides. luckily i have 7 goats and one cow. the goats gave birth not long ago outside is that the same? the finance guy, the guy, but i use the co done to make because of the car part of the top the house. so i keep and then i use the briquettes for cooking although the cast system has officially been abolished. it's still

a major feature of everyday life here. so now belongs to the lowest cost, formerly referred to as the untouchables that the lives didn't belong to a dallas community. see mama bonzai is the side of people from lower task. let's work in the fields of the upper cast till their lands. we are little thing was the pillow and have not got the ever cast, still discriminate against us and look down and us out of the hedge. i have a look on the tv, the kind of thing. so now i would love to be able to give her children a different life. there are admission quotas for dallas at schools and universities, but those are a long way away in the big cities too far for many children. sometimes husband, blue cash is often away for months. he earns a bit of money working as a bricklayer on building sites in urban areas. at the moment he's expanding the family home to accommodate his brother who is about to get married and move in

daily life in the villages here has barely changed in recent decades. as soon as mother and grand mother cooked in clay of like this one the middle of the names because i'm 27 years old and i live in the greater noise area. yes. financially were strong. and i think the goal is to be born into a good family, a lot of the problem, but the have to go and say,

i am vicious but it depends on what it is that a bad thought, but i did my 10th and 12th grade exams. the greater annoyed to school about the excel and then i prepare for medical studies for a year and in 2018. i went to study medicine in china. i'm it's i am as in love. yeah. because this family made most of its money by selling land incidentally, area wealth is distributed extremely on equally in india to most affluent to 10 percent possessed 80 percent of the wealth because lives with his extended family in a 10 room house built by his father. the

combined company we, we lived together in a large family group by me, my parents, my brothers and their wives, their children. here we were together all the time that there for mornings evenings like the semester is home. don't care about a my oldest brother run to school the way i was getting close enough. got it. and one of my brothers has passed away by the, in the, just as in most wealthy families here, education is a top priority. one of the cost is nice is studying law, and another has plans to apply to the civil service. ask for because he wants to follow in the footsteps of his deceased brother. it set his sights on a career in politics

would be the without power. you can't do anything this at the juncture, you can open a hospital and that's about to see me for the price at the beginning of politics that are new limit machine learning that and to to, that's why i want to try and pull up the 1st one with though i want to work for the people to come and go to the a just a few kilometers away. also in noise to new delhi, the proven in my name is so many i'm 25 years old or maybe a little less based on what the,

what these are. i work in the ground or mex project holidays and do cleanings sweeping and washing utensils tablets. lucky so many lives with her 2 young daughters and a slum just across the road from her place of work. she's one of an estimated 40 to 100000000 migrant workers in india who leased their home states, hoping to find a better life in the city. india needs to create millions of jobs. one in every 6 young people is out of work. the highest unemployment rate in 45 years the my husband only use of our jobs. but not long ago he started driving a water tanker that helps us because now we can get our water delivered here. i

don't have to go such anymore a button and then they got them. are these doherty's have already torn down her heart 3 times? because like all the others here, it was put up illegally. the family moved here to earn money to repay a loan of around 440 years. because the, when we got married, we had to take out a loan. and so far we haven't been able to repay it. but we've been paying small amounts for about 4 years, but there are other things we have to pay for to fit that on the a, b, it's not that much. it's around $40000.00 rupees, okay. but because of the interest loan amount keeps going up, it's out of the phone, even though we're repaying it. the amount we owe goes up. we can't pay more than that. we don't are in that much. now let me bought the phone. soaping the story is a familiar one, many take out loans, for example, for weddings seats or doctors bills. almost 55 percent of the rural populace are in

debt. often they're exploited by local lenders because they can't read or write. moving to a city can seem like the only way to earn money. there's no power or running water here and no toilets or sewage systems every day from 9 to 11 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. so if any goes over to the residential complex to clean, she gets paid $4000.00 rupees per month. the equivalent of just under $45.00 zero's . when she's at work neighbors watch out for her children or dropping the i got the

back to see them. the successful pharma start up found her and hide her about the this is my favorite picture. so come on and me my wife, because i lost my 5 that a days of 3. he's my dad. so he took care of me and my and died educational work, not every day. every part of me is taken care of by him. right. and have the family has everything for me with the family, nothing, nothing. i have nothing but the secret lives with his mother,

like almost 80 percent of all young people in india, cities. his cousin and his cousins wife also live here. in the evening. he enjoys talking to other relatives who live further away. the fin, sometimes i have with an image to infringe. what i, what do i spend the time? i like to spend my time with my family convenience. i totally forgot. it is not sufficient to spend with my family and all of us we can to see enjoying the new new variable. we use the 11th of course, and so all of us being the same in keeping with tradition, his wife is spending the 1st few months after the birth with her parents. that's

why during the week he can only see his 5 month old son on his smartphone screen. of course i visited the marriage was arranged like more than 90 percent of all marriages in india. for the sonata engine, matt, it's been the monthly shared, or part time one, what family is meant to us. and then it happens like if it means i believe me and just on each end that and the address back thing to that one. what i don't see a was she understands what i am going and she should respect that is above me, an angel for not being a scientist is, is not in a convention. i'm the,

i don't like to be in the own in your thoughts is okay. and as a part of the family i and i want to meet with the family on demand. what happened and what nice more to you, your family or you know, the products are but that my family knows a little bit as any, but i think they know a little bit, but they don't say anything about that in front of me. they have a feeling and i think they ignore it even though they know is it they can then while that made and then hey, i'm doing this is i have both of them. k zane knows what it means to break with family tradition in india. he meets us in

secret, at the home of a friend who's also cut off from her family. by lo, several of all my brothers are married and live together with our families. ma'am, i mean, i live with my mother so, but my father died 12 years ago, but to anyways, i live up under that. so yeah. for some societal pressure, unclear people is often too much to bear. a lot of people say marry him off and then he'll be normal again. a stranger is come to my house, talk to my mother and try to influence her. that american let me quote a sample of what day. although homosexuality is no longer a crime in india, it's still the case that gave people are often ostracized. and there are no laws banning discrimination problem. you see the problem is that this society doesn't

accepted so it doesn't matter to preserve the family reputation. they don't want these things talked about is and accepted. is a give me a lot of names to take this. i've got an icon. zane can only made his partner in secret a long way from his neighborhood. he's always afraid he'll be recognized. he'd prefer not to have to hide like this. imagine that a k. i imagine that if i it was a trance woman. i mean, i could have a house or a family though, and mary, my boyfriend's phone committee has as a, when they go to the family, all the boyfriends and matter to get their hospitals that carry out gender reassignment and a 3rd gender is officially recognized here. but in everyday life, trans people are marginalized, ridiculed, and even a tact. let me tell you, i sometimes i think i should leave on the lazy. i don't think i'm doing an outside

india. i wouldn't have these problems. i'm saying you can lead a free life there as they get these. i think i should go somewhere else that that in life would be better. a tele, using the alarm at the, the manager in the most populous state of which our connect dash one and a half hours north of delhi. my name is my name is mohammed amount. i will be sleeping, doing this work for almost 20 years. now. this used to be a small street fluid stone and probably sort of and since i've been working here, it's a proper restaurant place in. but right now i do want to profess turned pedestrian with his patient. know what our specialty was. the, the on the, it's made with media and it's a very famous was up to say it was how much stanley makes to be

a jani. just the way his grandmother used to rice, spices and meat simmered for several hours. the recipe for this yellow de leon sauce is a well kept secret. he sells more than 160 portions of the jani every day, as well as can bobs and other north indian specialties. he now has a staff of 18. the restaurant is open from noon to 10 pm every day and we are like, single left turn that comes out and we have one restaurant. but we'd like to expand and have a few branches, and that is amenable, you know, fast food style, with cell service and clint, automatic painting, put the tv in for the nice thing is that we're also planning to renovate the restaurant in the nation fee for the next generation being for my children, who are you for muslims like mohammed hearing match. the situation is tense like large parts of the country. merit is governed by moody's, can do nationalist party. the b j. p. violence regularly

swears up between hindus and whose limbs in merit most recently in 2023, and there are often fatalities the new render. moody has been accused of promoting policies that stoke division between hindus and muslims. for muslim communities. the situation is a burden. mohammed tells us he closes his restaurant on major hand, do holidays as a precautionary measure. he's afraid that agitated crowds might vandalized or set fire to his restaurant the . it's important to him to maintain good relations with the local police,

the bottom little once a month when they come. we host them with lots of respect because they each year and we give them special discounts. we have any homes and you said it's not like they say they're from the police and don't want to pay. you know, it's out of respect that we give the police and government workers a special discount. i didn't look at all this long, but if i did out the local, acted as to how me to re believes that the many different religions in india can live in peace as a social worker. he tries to raise awareness about the problems faced by muslims and provide support to the families of victims of violence during the muslims are afraid if they can't trust this government and feel like 2nd class citizens decision. the situation for most of us has deteriorated since this government took power to help and not just their economic situation. i'd say there's a climate of fear now. i'm on woodlands and other minorities. nothing's going on.

and the majority population also has a census here in their day to day live, the way one or the most new skin lives. it's not an easy situation for the nearly 200000000 muslims in india. there's a country's largest religious minority. and the indian constitution is explicitly secular and hasn't tried equal rights for all religious groups here. the in the near daily, after going to the fitness studio and having breakfast because is praying at his home trying. although he's a member of the hindu majorities at moody and tends to mobilize in his favor. because is not

a fan of motives politics. i'm religious i was born in do. i don't celebrate my face in public. i'm just go behind the go. after waking up in the morning, everyone in the family offers up their prayers. the children, my sister in law, the thinking is that doesn't mean we should put on a public demonstration of our fe, new almost every day because and his team drive around visiting villages in the region. the contacts he makes in these places could be important for his political career. the for, i mean the government doesn't do anything for us about what used to cost 300 rupees, no cost, a 1000 things, or no one's thinking about the farmers on their income has gone out of date.

so didn't get this. government isn't taking care of the issues that concern us santo, but in, in, for me i don't and then right, know during the election is going and we're campaign. that means that we're constantly on the ruins of a lot of the company. we've got the guns, i think we want a new government that takes care of bodies. the young people almost gonna buy something here in the villages of northern india. it's the men who have this say they make decisions together. for example, concerning the distribution of water, or who's allowed to marry whom the village elders wield great authority. because tries to gauge the mood in the village, the men are unhappy with their current political representation by modi's b. j. p. on in 2027 because wants to stand

as a local candidate for the sum swati party moody's competition. and for that he needs their votes. the ave, even though i mean what, how many people are funded weren't given a job? i'm going to be given a who's supporting you there are other issues. the g p candidates promise new roads in the last election campaign. have they've been built because hopes to capitalize on the general sense of dissatisfaction. there were the voters were the youth. exactly. so i do see that we can become number one in the world of young people weren't card for it. we can do that any boss of anything as possible samples. so it is how

things can because promises to come back soon. he has big plans for himself, but also for his country today in soon i'm still it's near most of a poor the women have gathered their learning to read and write as part of the government initiative to reduce the countries high literacy rate age. samsung means chicken in my lack of the this is important for us women. 15 gauntlet life in the village is hard, the housework, the work in the fields. i'm here because i have no education get total funding. if i learn something, maybe i could have been a teacher or civil servant,

a job in the city. i could have lived somewhere else and everything's just so hard here helping because out of line because of all this stuff, i have many hopes and dreams. corners took, i'm going to say i'd love to have decent work. i'm the 1st thing that has been both me and my husband would like to improve ourselves. but because we're poor, we're starting to get them on a. i'd like our children to be educated so they can have a good career. we couldn't get an education ourselves, but we want our children to be able to the summer and some other run to small kiosk where simon helps out. it's the main source of income for the entire family. it's enough for life, you're in the village. but simon, once more. my, my daughter, well, the same life is my mother. i don't want to get married at

a young age. my mother supposed to be in that 4th. got people in the village. tell my family that i should be married, don't think, but my mother says i was married at 12 and the only stuff is a lot about why should my daughter also suff? and that way, can anybody be lazy after marrying? the woman still usually moves in with her husband's family to look after the home and the children. women's participation in india is labor force has risen by over 10 percent in recent years. but still, around 2 thirds of all women are not in paid work for simon, that's out of the question. would that be? so i want to be a teacher. i believe that the women in the villages shouldn't have such a life full of suffering. and i didn't want to stand on my own 2 feet. i don't want to bound down to any one of them that i want to on my own money and decide what i spend to don't want the man. i don't want to have to ask anyone for money when they get this amount, nobody of the separate is hoping to get

a scholarship to attend university. her work as a journalist is a 1st step called the child need. it was no, it's important. it's electricity. you delete that and moving here. ok. so it gives you the 30 gardner in the city the but our lease is of the money to open it into your can become a developed country under a lot of things will improve. so goes, is that for women to have you at the level gabby before men i'm the way how yeah. like, yeah, like it's everyone works together. this can become a developed country. miguel news this school will. this was a big investment august. then in the evening, simmons father comes home. he's

a rickshaw driver and is a huge supporter of his daughter and her dreams for the future. as i saw most of the i think the report is really easy, but she's addressing the problems that face for people and asking questions to see if the media helps others understand the worries of poor people. they'll try to find out more about the issues. i wasn't able to achieve this, but my daughter has and that makes me very happy the in the evening. so been a returns to the slum from her cleaning job. now she has to cook before it gets too dark. there are no lights or electricity here. the

outlines of one, i pray and ask god to keep me well, to provide us money and a good house that we can live a comfortable life. i want my children to live a good life, that wherever they end up, they have a good, secure, and easy life, that they can make something of themselves in the future that they find good work. to the a few blocks away. in the evenings the upper classes flocked to one of the many models here. prizes here are similar to those in europe.

like because his family, anyone earning more than 37000 zeros year, belongs to the upper class. a group that's tripled to 90000000 over the last decade . the name of the lights that you see here, that you're filming with your camera. if you looked at it from the point of view of a person who lives in poverty, it just looks like a waste of money. like very, very intelligent vision. on a monthly disability, rich people middle class people who come here for enjoyment, not india is the fastest growing consumer market in the world. best is a handful. having money is grants, of course you're born and to our rich family and lead a happy life as best i mean that can change overnight in terms of our school to day,

you might have money tomorrow, you can be poor. i mean, i'm going to go above all, i see myself as a human being can just end up in so anyone can become written chung or anything as possible. but 1st you have to be human. one can do a diamond and someone who's born with a silver spoon in their most and well, they don't care about the poor. yeah. do. and they're not a good person in my day and i want to know what to know. so 2nd, they do something this upcoming. everyone has a dream. mine is it one day all become prime minister, even though the near most of the poor people also come together in the evening to the miller, the local fair.

the soon i'm is here with her husband and the children, the he said, oh, that's all. yeah, that it's a wonderful to be here. when you come here, you can leave your problems at home, set them aside and be happy, and babb was disappointing. would that be a big news? all i want is to live in happiness and peace. that's also what i want for my children. we've been thinking about making a change and it's not possible right now, but we'll keep on trying. the young generation in india,

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boat. what drives them to keep going? and the sound of people on the w the this is the w news, and these are our top stories, indian prime minister and render moody has claim victory in india is weeks long parliamentary elections. setting him up for a red badge to the boat as have defined productions of a landslide victory bodies, n d, a alliance of policies, one the majority in parliament, especially as hindu nationalist. coffee, the b. j. p. fell short of an outright majority. today us president joe biden has issued an executive order to restrict.