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a population of over 1400000000, and young around 28 years old on average. my name is simon sony. my name is steve on the college and i'm 27. i live in apartment 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. outlined by have many hopes and dreams. they got available, get the refund on reading something. doing this over the,

the, the team that i'm seeing. my name is tim, reinstalling me. it is by i'm 22 years old to think. i'm not, i ride my bike from village to village making videos. i'm also in also, i'm in the tv. i've written on many issues in the bottom of the covey. simon lives in the heart, in northeastern india. the name of her village is changed. kalani, 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. maybe want me to get my house. i got married at the age of 12 and a year over to the wedding. i was born 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, as well as that goes, should have the right to live just as freely as boys. but some people that have the same rights as borders get out there as a lot of people with that need to have some life a 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 can you do that's open up on kind of by say, documents about elizabeth. i take some sort of medication and hope it will get

better. somebody then you go back to why this happens. if you feel really bad, then i go to the hospital and most of afford most of a poor is 2 hours away. an priyanka 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. and if you have to work day off to day in this age and you for a little, what do you do the take medication and get back to work and carry on working? yes. so got to get the vehicle for something well, level of discipline and comical mega, just like many media don't do the job properly. the more they hear one thing, the bible to say another but or some of them would the highlight,

we don't trust the media. the media key, i will hear they just need praise mode as well. and do you want somebody bought these done this? yeah, this is done. that was, i think it was, but well, the never increases size. the mode is government be, was give what i named getting it. 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 degrees. and i'm the see will the founder of on the life sciences by which i maternity came to you. we developed a product in as an spray for sinusitis, for stuff at sky and on the verdict. and as those pre wanted to launch the product

in india 1st, then we want to take it. i cause a bonus. you as a, b, c, m, e, p, g most jania jeff and 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 is in 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 bar for cba, the 100 moody has also contributed to this increasing wealth, as prime minister, the paid to follow. point them on the corner

takes from the research, find the field from and she point of view, she hadn't done incredible job. the amount of stop to be just fine. and the number of unicorns which are gone, i don't know if in days of different entry. remarkable. see if i realizes that it could be years before his start up, turn to process, evaluate or input on it. and this is, this guy started eating some odd one down on the for this the regular tragic 3. you wouldn't be getting into some corporate job. but i followed a different, but i mean, that is such a being an entrepreneur that's and issues. and i, i want to achieve things as see the, and his business partner and body, many of the young ambitious generation of founders and entrepreneurs in india.

when even doing in just gotta be and we'll get this is if i'm not getting something i don't visit with you, i can make it happen. that's it. the advantage or human resources are available in india who have capability to look into fundamental research that is in the as be different. i don't see any country have the positioning from the find them under the search 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 the backend rural, the hard in the most of a poor region, the centimeter. now my name is so known, 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 to there soon? um is 27 and can read or write like a quarter of the indian population. and of the women here in the her only half can reading 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. what's more, feed them, good food, try to get cut off. how about that? because i'm not educated, i don't have a decent job in 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. i see now is 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. the thousands of families live and work here in extremely harsh conditions. bonded labor and child labor are still the order of the day. but har is regarded as india's least developed state. many tried to leave and find work elsewhere in the country like most here. sometimes family lives from what they can grow and raise themselves subsets. luckily i have 7 goats and one cow. the goats gave birth, not long ago. outside of the nathaniel for this guy, the guy for that i use the cow done to make because of the car part of the top, the house. so i cheap and then i use the protests for cooking although the

cast system has officially been abolished. it's still a major feature of everyday life here. so none belongs to the lowest cost, formerly referred to as the untouchables. that said, that lives that belong to a dallas community. the moment bonzai is the set of people from lower task. let's work in the fields of the upper cast till their land. we have lowered, that was the pillow and have not got a band. the ever costs are still discriminate against us and look down and us badge i hate. how lovely to be that 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 location is often away from 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 it 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,

but the meadow gardens here. i am a vicious country though, but it depends on what it is at the back of the day and thought i did my 10th and 12th grade exams. the great turn the way to school about the accelerating and then i prepare for medical studies for a year and in 2018. i went to study medicine in china. so much i am as in love yet because this family made most of its money by selling land. incidentally, area wealth is distributed extremely on equally in india. to most affluent, 10 percent possessed 80 percent of the wealth because the lives with his extended

family and attend room house built by his father, the combined company we, we live together in a large family group by me, my parents, my brothers and their wives, their children here we work together all the time and from morning to evening like the semester sounds. okay, how about a my oldest brother runs a school the way i was quitting cold and i've got to have one of my brothers passed away by the end. the, just as in most wealthy families here, education is a top priority. one of the cars 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. the be the without. however, you can't do anything of this adult that don't or you can open a hospital. and that's about to see me to the what, the price of the politics that are new limit machine learning at the end to the that's why i want to join a policy for them. and though i want to work for the people come and go to the a just a few kilometers away. also in noise to new delhi, the proven my name is so many i'm 25 years old or maybe

a little less based on what the, what the size i work in the ground to mix project holidays and do cleanings sweeping and washing utensils like the so many lives with her 2 young daughters and a slow i'm 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 used to have our jobs. but not long ago, he started driving

a water tank or that helps us because now we can get our water delivered here. i don't have to go fetch it anymore. and then they got them to the store. a tease him 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 retain loan of around 440 years. god, the when we got married, we had to take out a loan. and so far we haven't been able to repay a fine. we've been paying small amounts for about 4 years. but there are other things we have to pay for to fit at the add on that then it'd be, 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 funds, even though we're repaying it. the amount we owe goes up. we can't pay more than that. we don't are not much. now let me bought that they've gone so many 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 zeros when she is at work neighbors watch out for her, children are dropping the i got the

back to see the, the successful pharma start at founder and hydra bought the, this is my favorite picture. so on and me, my wife, because i lost my father in days of 3 peas, my dad. so he took care of me and my end died. education was not every day. every part of me is taken care of by humor and have the families for everything. for me, with the family, nothing, nothing. i'm fine with that thing, but the cfo 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 here's my spend some time here. what happened is i have what do you need me to infringe? what i, what do i spend the time? i like to spend my time with my family a convenient time. 24 hours is not sufficient to spend with my family and all of us we can 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 parts. i mean what, what family is meant to us. and then it happens like if it means i believe me and just on each end and the address back thing to that one. what i don't see a was she understands what i am doing and she should respect that is above me. an answer 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, if i want to be with the family on demand, what happens? what means more to you, your family or you know, the products are but that my family knows a little bit of the name, but i think they know a little behind. but they don't say anything about that in front of the they have a feeling and i think they ignore it even though they know is it? they can then why that man. um is there an hey, i'm going to see if i have both and and 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 paul, my brothers are married and live together with our families. a man, i mean is, don't 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 with 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 on the course of the 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

accept it. is that government to preserve the family reputation? they don't want these things talked about is and accepted is a give me it will of name to take this. i've gotten like a not zane can only meet 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 good thing, k. i imagine that if i was a trance woman, i mean i could have a house or a family home in mary my boyfriend's phone, give me the her as a when they go to the family. oh, the boyfriends a 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 i sometimes i think i should need warranty. i don't think i

need to make an outside india. i wouldn't have these problems. i'm saying you can lead a free life there as, as they get these. i think i should go somewhere else that that and life would be better. a tele, using the you, i may have thought of the may not in the most populous state of the butcher dash one and a half hours north of daily. my name is my name is mohammed amount and when we sleep in doing this work for almost 20 years now, this used to be a small street fluid stone. it's always sort of and since i've been working here it's a proper restaurant place in. but right now, i don't know for, for that for and pedestrian with this patient now with our specialty. he was the, the, on the, it's made with me and, and it's a very famous was up to say it was how much stanley mixed the jani. just

the way his grandmother used to rice spices and meet 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 ca, 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 want to exceed the 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 self service included, automatic painting hooked only part of the being for the nice thing is that we're also planning to renovate the restaurants 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 woodlands 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 ones, the ones that when they come, we host them with lots of respect on that 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 already. look at all this one. but if i did of the local activists who, how me to re lease 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 the discovery and feel like 2nd class citizens decision. the situation for muslims has deteriorated since this government

took power to help and not just their economic situation. so you, i'd say there's a climate of fear now and i'm on with the lens and other minorities. mostly if we're going over the majority population also has a census here in their day to day lie though. one are the most new skin, the. 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 has been trying to 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 and religious i was born in do. i don't celebrate my face in public, and 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 speaking is that doesn't mean we should put on a public demonstration of our fe, new account 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 the government doesn't do anything for us. so what used to cost 300 rupees, no cost a 1000 things or no one's thinking about the farmers on their income hasn't gone

out of date. so didn't get this. government isn't taking care of the issues that concern us to but any, for me i don't and then right, know, gone during the election is going and we're campaign openings that were constantly on the ruins of the company. we've gone. the thing can do is we want a new government that takes care of bodies. the young people think it was 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 motives b,

j. p. 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 how many people assigned 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 and the young people weren't card for it. we can do that. any boss of anything is 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. h means chicken and my lack of the this is important for us women sitting gauntlet lights in the village as hard. the house works the work in the fields. i'm here because i have no education get put up on. 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 hope that outlines as well with this up. i have many hopes and dreams. corners to com. go to say i'd love to have decent work on the 1st thing that has been both of 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 put the summer and some other run to small kiosk where simmering 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,

may i don't want the same life as my mother. i don't want to get married a young age. my mother supposed to be involved. the 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 i suffered a lot. why should my daughter also suff and that way? can anybody be? why is it 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's 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. the autumn was at these, 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 it

gets this amount of money. separate is hoping to get a scholarship to attend university. her work as a journalist, it's a 1st step out need it was no, it's important. it's electricity. delete that in moving here. ok, so it gives you 30 gardner in the city the but our lease is up in the navy. opposite the india can become a developed country under a lot of things will improve for goes for women to have it the low gabby before man i'm going on. yeah. the like yeah. louder is everyone works together. this can become a developed country. miguel knew this school well this was a big, it was 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. 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 a 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. ready the front lines of wrong, 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 and they have a good, secure and easy life, but they can make something of themselves in the future that they find good work. i'm going to add 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 a year, belongs to the upper class. a group that's tripled to 90000000 over the last decade, the name of the lakes 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 the best of luck on a monthly disability, rich people, middle class people who come here for enjoyment. india is the fastest growing consumer market in the world. best hands on, hey, it's old. having money is grease. of course you're born into

a rich family and lead a happy life as best i had come to me that can change overnight. i'm going to school today, 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 and just an up in time. anyone can become written chung or anything as possible, but 1st you have to be human. one could do a diamond and someone who's born with a silver spoon in their most. i don't, 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's not. so 2nd they do so police, i've given everyone has a dream. mine is that 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 does. oh, that's all. yeah, it's a wonderful to be here. when you come here, you can leave your problems at home, set them aside, and be happy in fab. let's disappear, you know, the, the, 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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