Great programme, if you know what I mean. Also quite moving to see the lives some people have to lead. A different world to the life we live in the UK!
Worked there a few years ago (2008), Bangalore, Chennai in the main....there is a very marked difference between the 'haves' and 'have nots'....there is no 'in-between'......yet they work so hard just for a bowl of rice to keep family fed...the poor in the UK, in the main, would be quite well off in some parts of India.
yes I worked there on and off over a 10 year period and agree with Red, but also the majority of haves could not care a less for the have nots. Also in the cities it seems that everyone speaks English but the stat is that in the country as a whole less than 10% speak English, it is such a large country and that also is hard to comprehend.
Whenever I hear one of last years rioters use the " we're poor the goverment hate us " as an excuse for going on a rampage, maybe they should be shipped out to India for a week to try and get by over there.
Whenever I hear one of last years rioters use the " we're poor the goverment hate us " as an excuse for going on a rampage, maybe they should be shipped out to India for a week to try and get by over there.
mate the only list you will be having for a good few years is a "bucket and spade" list of a "mother care" list-- fast aproaching ---hope everything is good mate?
mate the only list you will be having for a good few years is a "bucket and spade" list of a "mother care" list-- fast aproaching ---hope everything is good mate?
Whenever I hear one of last years rioters use the " we're poor the goverment hate us " as an excuse for going on a rampage, maybe they should be shipped out to India for a week to try and get by over there.
Perhaps we could swap our poor, unemployed etc for onion bhargees, kormas, vindaloos..
For those who don't know me, my wife is Indian, so we always enjoy these sorts of documentaries. The best one we've watched so far was "The story of India" presented by an English historian called Micheal Wood. There are boring bits but it's a fascinating look at India through the ages and their place in history.
Whenever I hear one of last years rioters use the " we're poor the goverment hate us " as an excuse for going on a rampage, maybe they should be shipped out to India for a week to try and get by over there.
Went 4 times between 1990 and 1994 - spent 18 months there.
Its a fucking great place - the people are shit hot and there is never a dull moment. You come home with a real sense of both how lucky and unlcuky we are. Lucky in that there is awful awful poverty/deformity the like of which we never see. Unlucky in that we dont live in such a beautiful place and have such a good attitude to that poverty.
Twelve years ago went there with £2000 cash in my bag, camera, north face gear, took a local bus, got lost and wandered through villages where the most expensive visible possession was an old scooter, asking for directions. Never felt in any danger at all and met nothing but helpful interest.
watched both programmes - ist one showed a bloke getting up before dawn to dig up the muck from the drains and bag it all up - sold 4 or 5 bags of the "mud" for about £20 as they contained minute particles of gold ..............someone then carefully sifted out the gold from all the other bags of "mud" that he had bought and eventually smelted it down into a single bit of gold. So time consuming & b****y filty work.
As mentioned earlier, perhaps some of our so called poor could spend a cople of weeks doing that for their "hand-outs" - thety may think twice aboiut saying how bad thet have got it !! I taped both porogrammes & made my kids watch it to show how lucky they are - they were amazed how some families lived on beaches and all slept together in one room !!
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Whenever I hear one of last years rioters use the " we're poor the goverment hate us " as an excuse for going on a rampage, maybe they should be shipped out to India for a week to try and get by over there.
Its a fucking great place - the people are shit hot and there is never a dull moment. You come home with a real sense of both how lucky and unlcuky we are. Lucky in that there is awful awful poverty/deformity the like of which we never see. Unlucky in that we dont live in such a beautiful place and have such a good attitude to that poverty.
As mentioned earlier, perhaps some of our so called poor could spend a cople of weeks doing that for their "hand-outs" - thety may think twice aboiut saying how bad thet have got it !! I taped both porogrammes & made my kids watch it to show how lucky they are - they were amazed how some families lived on beaches and all slept together in one room !!