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Narrator: India.
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Birthplace of a
civilization that is
over 5,000 years old.
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(music)
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A land where
ancient traditions
live side by side
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With a dynamic,
modern society.
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This spectacular aerial
journey captures
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This unique nation's
incredible sights
from above,
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For the first time.
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It shows how ancient
festivals still dictate
the rhythms of life here.
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And how indians are
forging new
traditions today.
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From the drive to make
democracy work for everyone
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In a nation of over
a billion people,
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(music)
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To ensuring ancient skills
and techniques are preserved
for future generations.
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Our bird's eye view
reveals how this
nation is embracing
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It's past to forge
its future.
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India.
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Home to 1.3
billion people.
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A secular nation where
multiple faiths have
thrived over centuries.
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This is the birthplace
of the world's oldest
surviving religion,
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Hinduism.
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Scholars believe the
roots of hinduism lie
in ancient texts
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Written over
4,000 years ago.
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In india, water has
been worshipped since
time immemorial.
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And no river is more
sacred to india's nearly
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One billion hindus
than the river ganga,
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Known outside of india
as the river ganges.
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This river has shaped
the religious landscape
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Of india for thousands
of years,
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And still exerts its
influence over
millions of indians.
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One of the most revered
parts of the river is
at prayagraj.
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448 miles southwest
of india's capital
city, delhi.
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This is the confluence
of three holy rivers,
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The ganga, the yamuna and
the mythical saraswati,
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The last one an invisible
river existing in
mythology.
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Hindus believe the
holy water of these rivers
washes away all mortal sins.
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This belief makes
prayagraj one of
the four holy sites
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Chosen to host the
world's largest
religious gathering.
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The kumbh festival.
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Every six years, millions
of pilgrims flock here
in search of salvation.
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When they come, a
temporary city, two thirds
the size of manhattan,
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Springs up on these
riverbanks.
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And, with this many
people packed into an area
of over 12 square miles,
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Stampedes are always
a risk.
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With previous kumbh
melas reporting a
number of deaths
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Due to overcrowding,
the task of ensuring
the safety
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Of the pilgrims
falls on the 20,000
police officers
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Deployed at prayagraj,
especially for
this festival.
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How is it possible to
monitor the welfare of
the 220 million people
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Expected to attend the
50-day long kumbh?
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Deputy inspector
general k.P. Singh
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Pioneers a modern
solution to this
ancient problem.
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Singh: This time we
have used more than
1,000 plus cameras,
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So we try to incorporate
the technology with the
best people.
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So it was a new
experiment altogether.
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Narrator: In the control
room, singh's team uses
artificial intelligence
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To analyze the live
feeds from over 1,000
fixed and drone cameras
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Positioned around
the festival.
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This allows them to
watch over pilgrims
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Across the whole site
around the clock.
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The technology uses an
algorithm which measures
the number of pilgrims
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In real time, in specific
areas, and analyses crowd
densities.
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It raises soft alerts for
more than three people
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Per square meter and
strong alerts for
more than five.
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This helps inform the team
about the areas in danger
of becoming overcrowded.
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Singh uses this data to
instruct his teams on the
ground which manage crowds.
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Eliminating bottle necks
and averting injury.
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After 50 days of
festivities,
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Darkness falls on the
last day of the kumbh
festival.
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The pilgrims launch
hundreds of burning lamps
into the sacred rivers,
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Ganga and yamuna.
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High above, the drone
technology takes to the night
sky for a special display.
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They spell out the
phrase "kumbh 2019"
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Together with the three
colors of the indian
national flag.
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This modern-day spectacle
marks the end
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Of the largest religious
gathering in the world.
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From traditions that date
back over a millennia,
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To the millennials ringing
in the new year with a
modern celebration.
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India is a land
of festivity.
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Come December, a
festival begins to heat
up on the world-famous
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Beaches of goa, on
the west coast.
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Asia's largest edm
festival, sunburn.
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An event where fans,
world famous djs and
top edm performers
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From around the globe come
together for a larger
than life celebration.
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After sunburn takes
over the beaches of goa
at the end of the year,
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Another festival begins
in the spring
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That unites indians of
almost all faiths.
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We travel from the
southwest to the northern
region of india.
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It is a warm afternoon
in the town of nandgaon.
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(bell sounds)
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A view from the air
reveals a group of young
men winding their way
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Through the narrow
passages in the town.
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A crowd of women
waits for them in
the main square.
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Each woman is armed
with a long stick
called the laathi.
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When the men arrive,
the women use their
lathis to beat them.
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This symbolic act is
part of a day long
celebration in nandgaon
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That marks the beginning
of the festival of holi
every year.
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It's early evening
in the northern
town of nandgaon,
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Where a unique ritual
is playing out.
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This is lathmar holi.
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It began as a retelling
of a famous hindu legend.
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A love story between
the lord krishna and
the maiden, radha.
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Krishna is believed to
have blue colored skin.
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The story goes that krishna
and his friends visit the
village where radha lives.
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Krishna smothers her in
pigment to try and change
the color of her skin.
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Radha fights back.
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She and her friends beat
krishna with sticks and
drive him from the town.
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The modern inhabitants
of nandgaon,
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The village where
lord krishna spent
his childhood,
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Recreate this tale
of a youthful prank
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In their playful
stick beating ritual.
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Nandgaon erupts in a
kaleidoscope of color.
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Neighbors throw handfuls
of pigment at each other
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To celebrate the
ancient legend.
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Age, gender and
nationality disappear
under a blanket of colors.
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Scenes like these can
be found across the
subcontinent
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During the week of holi.
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As people come together
in a fun celebration
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That coincides with
the start of spring.
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Like the festivals
which bind together
india's citizens,
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The desire for progress
transcends borders of
states and culture.
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The indian space program
is a source of great
pride for the nation.
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From its launchpad in the
city of sriharikota,
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The indian space research
organization has sent
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Missions to both
the moon and mars.
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The modern drive to
build vessels to explore
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New horizons springs
from the nation's
ancient roots.
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Once source of this
passion for engineering
can be found
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On india's west coast,
in the city of veraval.
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Indians have fished from
boats here for centuries.
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A bird's eye view reveals
that veraval is still a
busy fishing port today.
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Many of these boats are
made from fiberglass.
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A few are wooden,
built by carpenters
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Who used techniques
honed over centuries.
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Mansur kureshi comes
from a long line of
shipbuilders
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That has always made
boats the old way.
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Narrator: Mansur builds
wooden boats of all shapes
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And sizes for high
profile clients with
traditional tastes.
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His vessels range from
40 to over 1,500
tonnes in capacity.
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This week, the
pressure is on
mansur and his team.
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They must complete
this huge fishing
boat, called a dhow,
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In the next seven
days before the high
tide arrives.
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Miss the tide because
of delays and mansur
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Will have to push
back delivery to his
client by a month.
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Narrator: Today mansur
must check the boat's
hull one final time
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To make sure it's
ready for launch.
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Every wooden panel
and every joint
must be perfect.
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Defects must be
repaired.
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Mansur's team cannot
risk late delivery
to the client.
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The hull of a vessel
like this one starts
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As a single piece of
wood called a keel.
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Craftsmen make a frame to
support the boat's shape
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Using large planks
of wood.
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Then, the last
layer of wood,
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Which makes the
outer skin of the
boat, is fitted on.
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Mansur's team of skilled
workers uses only nuts
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And bolts to put
this dhow together.
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Mansur finishes his
inspection.
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The boat's hull
is perfect.
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The build is right on
schedule for floating and
delivery to the client.
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In an age when india has
the technology to launch
missions into space,
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This nation is
careful to preserve
the unique techniques
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Pioneered by its past.
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India is one of the fastest
growing economies in the
industrialized world.
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And its population
is predicted to
increase 20 percent
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To 1.5 billion by 2030.
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This growth will
stretch india's
energy infrastructure
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To its limits.
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To meet future demand,
india has an ambitious
plan to boost the amount
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Of energy it generates
from renewable sources
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By 40 percent before
the end of the decade.
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Kamuthi, in the southern
state of tamil nadu,
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Receives an average of
more than seven hours
of sunshine every day,
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Making it an ideal
place to build such
an epic solar farm.
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And this monumental
power plant is best
seen from above.
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Two and a half million
solar panels combine
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To generate 648 megawatts
of clean energy.
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Enough to power about
150,000 homes,
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This is one of the
largest solar power
plants on earth.
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Anil: The entire
project is spread across
2,500 acres of land,
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If I have to give an analogy
that land means 950 olympic
sized football grounds.
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This plant has 38,000
pile foundations and
30,000 structural steel.
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Narrator: The solar farm
needs to run at close
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To maximum efficiency
to meet demand.
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For this, anil gupta
and his team must make
sure nothing prevents
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The sunlight from
reaching the panels
photovoltaic cells.
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Anil assigns a team of
20 grass cutters to
remove tall foliage
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That could throw shadows
over the solar panels.
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But the hot, rural
location creates
another big problem.
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Dust.
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Layers of dust settle
on panels each day which
could impede efficiency.
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Using water jets to clean
the panels takes too long
and is too labor intensive.
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So, anil deploys
a solution.
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25 giant robotic mops.
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Each spins at 100
revolutions per minute.
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A solar powered motor
moves them vertically up
and down a rectangular
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Frame attached to a row
of solar panels.
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Once a section is
cleaned, the frame slides
along automatically
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To the neighboring panel.
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It takes one mop around
two hours to clean a row of
solar panels 803 feet long.
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The robotic mops work every
day to ensure this solar
farm captures the natural,
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Renewable resources
india needs to meet
its energy demands.
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Anil: India is poising
to become a part of
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Five trillion us dollar
economy by the year 2025.
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And today we are at
2.7, so we have to grow.
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As india grow our power
demand will also grow.
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And to reduce our
carbon footprints,
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We believe solar
project is one of the
most promising area.
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Narrator: India is
one of the youngest
nations on earth
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With more than 65 percent
of its population under
the age of 35.
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They honor the past while
bringing innovation to
all areas of modern life,
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From business and
technology to sport
and big events.
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Building new traditions
for the future.
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One of the most extreme
sports events takes place
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Over 2,000 miles
from kamuthi,
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In india's northern
most territory.
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Ladakh is one of the most
remote places on earth.
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A view from above reveals
a cold desert landscape
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Of high plains and
deep valleys.
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In the distance are
the peaks of the
mighty himalayas.
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The youngest mountain
range on the planet.
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This unforgiving terrain
is now the setting
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For one of the world's
toughest sporting events.
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It's 2:50 a.M.
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A group of athletes stands
at the start line of
the khardung la challenge.
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Started in 2012, it's an
ultra-marathon held across
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Some of the most
breathtaking yet grueling
landscapes of ladakh.
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Shabbir hussain was born
and raised in this region.
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He has won the challenge
two years running.
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Can he make it three
in a row today?
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Narrator: The khardung
la challenge is a 44.7
mile ultra-marathon
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Across some of the
world's highest and most
demanding terrains.
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It is a new sporting
festival for the
21st century.
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Shabbir hussain has
emerged victorious two
years in a row,
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Today he hopes to
make it three.
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Narrator: 3 a.M.
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Race official:
Three, two, one, go!
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Narrator: The race begins.
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The challenge is divided
into four legs,
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As it winds its way
through the mountains
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Between the villages of
khardung and leh.
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The first leg
stretches 20 miles
and climbs 4,580 feet
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To the top of
khardung la mountain.
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Shabbir must run up one
of the highest paved
roads in the world
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In almost complete
darkness to get there.
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Narrator: Our bird's
eye view captures
the spectacular
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And rugged terrain
that lies ahead.
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During the winter months,
temperatures here drop to
about 0° fahrenheit
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Such extreme weather
conditions sometimes
isolate ladakh
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From the rest of
the country.
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The marathon is held
in September, just
before winter.
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Here in khardung la,
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The temperature
is approximately
23° fahrenheit
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Shabbir begins
the second leg
of the race.
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It's a distance of 8.8
miles to the village of
south pullu.
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Thick patches of ice
nestle in the folds of
the rough mountainsides.
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The atmosphere here
contains 50 percent less
oxygen than at sea level.
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Goba: The biggest challenge
that the runners feel,
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Specially people who are
coming from outside ladakh,
is the elevation.
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You know, running at
over 17,000 feet it's
absolutely, you know,
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Something people
will not imagine.
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Narrator: By the time
shabbir starts the
third leg of the race,
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High altitude, low
oxygen and extreme
temperature changes
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Push some athletes
past their limits.
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Runner: Water?
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Water?
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Narrator: In extreme
circumstances,
athletes can develop
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Life threatening forms of
acute mountain sickness.
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Shabbir stays focused
on his objective.
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His final destination
is leh, 8.3 miles away.
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(music)
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At the finish line in
leh market, a crowd
is waiting.
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Shabbir and a
fellow competitor
are neck and neck
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When they turn into
the home straight.
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(applause)
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6 hours and 53 minutes
after he set off, shabbir
hussain makes history.
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Becoming the first
person ever to win the
khardung la challenge
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Three years in a row.
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Narrator: This race
welcomes competitors
from across the world.
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120 athletes out of the
142 that started the race
complete the challenge.
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They can take pride in
finishing one of the world's
highest ultra-marathons.
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India is the
second-most populous
nation in the world.
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While nearly one third
of its population
lives in cities,
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A majority live in over
half a million villages.
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And once every five
years, rural and urban
india come together
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To elect a federal
government.
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From the high mountains
to the dense forests in
the country,
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No matter where one
resides, the election
commission of india
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Makes sure that each
registered voter can
cast their vote.
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The forest of gir in the
western state of gujarat
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Is one of the most wild
and remote places in
all of india.
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An abundance of deciduous
trees stretches to the
horizon.
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This temple is the
only visible sign
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Of human habitation
for miles around.
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Home to 69-year-old
priest, bharatdas
darshandas.
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He lives here, alone,
with only the wildlife
for company.
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Narrator: His
social interactions are
limited to a house help.
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And the occasional devotee
who visits this forest
temple bearing gifts.
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Of grain, fruit and
vegetables, which are
his main source
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Of sustenance
through the year.
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(music)
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The priest's solitude
is broken once every
five years,
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By an event that unites
the whole of india in
one purpose.
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The indian national
election.
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In 2019, around 900
million indians,
aged 18 and over,
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Have the right to
decide who should
govern the country.
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That number of eligible
voters is larger than the
combined population
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Of the united states
and the european union.
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It makes india the world's
largest democracy.
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And voting is a right
that mahant bharatdas
darshandas holds dear.
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Narrator: To ensure
that the lone priest
can cast his vote,
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These election commission
officials travel deep
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Inside the gir forest to
prepare a polling station.
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They are part of an army
of election commission
employees who set up
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Over one million
voting booths
across the country.
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Making sure that there is
a voting booth erected for
every 1.2 miles of land.
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(music)
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Mahant bharatdas
darshandas casts his vote.
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The election official
marks his nail with
indelible ink,
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A device to ensure no
one can vote twice.
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The priest then
starts his journey
back to the temple,
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Continuing his life
of solitude.
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Delhi.
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A modern metropolis with
a history that dates back
more than 2,000 years.
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(music)
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A city that has been built
and rebuilt nine times.
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(music)
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It has served as a national
capital for over 100 years.
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Every year on the 26th of
January, delhi celebrates
india's traditions
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And achievements in
a show right in the
heart of the city.
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This is the republic
day parade.
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Over 100,000 spectators'
line the rajpath,
a ceremonial street,
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To watch india's
grandest procession.
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Nearly 40 million indians
watch it on live tv.
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Along with the
different regiments from
the indian armed forces,
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There is one unit that
really stands out.
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The camel contingent
of the indian border
security force.
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Every camel contingent
soldier considers riding
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In the republic day
parade a great honor.
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Narrator: The unit must
ride the 4.2 miles of
the procession route
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In perfect formation.
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Guaranteeing a good show
rests on ensuring that
only the best camels
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And riders take part
in india's most
important parade.
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354 miles southwest of delhi
is the camel contingent's
barracks at jodhpur.
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Here, deputy commander
ghanshyam singh puts
both soldiers
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And camels through a
rigorous training program
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To find the most
accomplished
man-animal teams.
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Physical fitness is
critical to ensuring a
flawless performance.
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All riders and camels
must demonstrate
they're parade ready.
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Narrator: Soldiers and
camels must also master
gymnastic routines
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To show they have the
poise and precision to
ride in tight formations.
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Riders strengthen this
bond with their camels
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Through a meticulous
routine that they
follow.
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Every day, riders
remove sand from
their camel's eyes,
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Scrub their coats
and remove pests.
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Regular rest for
animals and trainers
is important too.
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An ethical concern for
some animal activists,
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The use of camels in
the republic day parade
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Remains an important
cultural ceremony for
the indian armed forces.
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The best camels and
riders win their
place in the parade
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By showcasing their
skills in a specially
choreographed display.
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(music)
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Every camel and rider
must perform impeccably.
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(music)
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The smallest hesitation
is enough to cost them
their place in the parade.
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The pressure is on.
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After months of
training, the camels
and riders transition
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Seamlessly between
formations.
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Every man-animal team
keeps perfect time.
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Not one misses a
step or a cue.
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With the training
complete, the camel
contingent is all set
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To March at the next
republic day parade.
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Flying over india, our
bird's eye view reveals
a nation moving forward
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While embracing its
unique traditions.
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Artificial intelligence
is helping to make
sacred festivals
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Safer for millions
of people.
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(music)
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Master craftsmen are
keeping ancient
construction techniques
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Alive for future
generations.
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(music)
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This is a land where the
achievements of the past
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Are still inspiring
the indians of today.
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