Welcome To India

[Windjammer]

Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai beach.

[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n8278/Welcome_to_India_Episode_1/[/video]

 

[Azazel]

Documentary series which explores life in India. It follows two people as they try to carve out homes - one in Kolkata and the other on a Mumbai beach.

[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n8278/Welcome_to_India_Episode_1/[/video]

You can't see the damn thing outside UK.

 

[livingdead]

BBC iplayer is not available outside UK? I was about to post this one.

 

[Jade]

Surprised to see Windjammer posting this. I though of posting it

I watched the episode with some of my British friends here. It is simply great. It shows how enterprising Indians can be. A great future ahead of India. This was echoed by my friends too.

 

[Windjammer]

BBC iplayer is not available outside UK? I was about to post this one.

Damn, i thought it would make interesting viewing, what's the point of containing it within UK. !!

 

[Jade]

For those who cannot watch. the following is the summary of the episode

Learning how to survive on an increasingly crowded planet is probably our ultimate challenge. But there is one place, home to over a sixth of the world's population, which is already making a good shot at adapting: welcome to India. This extraordinary observational series casts aside the usual preconceptions about the sub-continent, and lets a few of India's 1.2 billion show how their world really works.

With astonishing access into the densest districts of Kolkata and Mumbai, it celebrates the impressive resourcefulness, resilience and absolute pragmatism of those living and working there, and reveals the psyche needed to get ahead in the biggest of crowds.

This follows two main characters as they employ all their ingenuity to carve out a home. With more people moving to cities in India than anywhere else on Earth, securing that place you can call home is vital for nurturing your family's future.

Kaale has come to Kolkata in search of gold - incredibly, he earns a living by sweeping the streets of the jewellery district for stray gold dust. But to fulfil his business ambitions, he must escape his landlord and rent a room of his own. His plan pushes even his resourcefulness to the limit: dredging for gold in Kolkata's drains.

Rajesh and his wife Sevita have created their home on a Mumbai beach after their controversial love marriage. They support their kids' future with some impressive improvisation, including running their house as a makeshift beach pub selling cane liquor. But then eviction by the Mumbai council threatens their home for good.

 

[livingdead]

Can anybody confirm whether all iplayer videos are not available outside uk? I have posted many of them here, but nobody pointed that out. I feel like stupid now.

 

[Skyline]

Can anybody confirm whether all iplayer videos are not available outside uk? I have posted many of them here, but nobody pointed that out. I feel like stupid now.

yep, not available outside UK.
I download the episode 1 using UK VPN and now watching. Thanks!

 

[Skyline]

...from starting to end BBC is showing poverty and so dirty..under the title of 'welcome to India'.

 

[KRAIT]

^ Still millions of people come to India. How about that ?

 

[livingdead]

...from starting to end BBC is showing poverty and so dirty..under the title of 'welcome to India'.

Thats what India is, a land of contradictions.

 

[mfreak]

Thats what India is, a land of contradictions.

And that is what the BBC is all about too. They will always show India as poor, as full of slums etc., Granted that India is still 60% villages, they will hardly concentrate on India's scientific achievements. They will always downplay it. It has been one of the biggest criticisms of the BBC. They have this colonial hangover mindset

 

[livingdead]

And that is what the BBC is all about too. They will always show India as poor, as full of slums etc., Granted that India is still 60% villages, they will hardly concentrate on India's scientific achievements. They will always downplay it. It has been one of the biggest criticisms of the BBC. They have this colonial hangover mindset

No they dont. They show success as well as failures. Poverty and dirt is a fact in India, it hits your face first when you land before you get to see any success.

 

[mfreak]

No they dont. They show success as well as failures. Poverty and dirt is a fact in India, it hits your face first when you land before you get to see any success.

Oh please. The BBC has been accused tons of times about Indophobia. Poverty and dirt is a fact, they just concentrate on it too much.

 

[harpoon]

...from starting to end BBC is showing poverty and so dirty..under the title of 'welcome to India'.

Now I understand why Windjammer posted this videos