The one thing we know for certain about the capital of india is that it is colorful. Fifty Million People is said to live in london around its impressive buildings but the actual figure could be twenty or even twenty five million no one knows for sure more and more people are migrating to this metropolis in indias northeast in fact just as they have done for centuries the muslim moguls route from here so did the british during the colonial era and today the citys destiny is determined by indians who are as diverse as the stories they write. Down with a regular guy. It is if. You were gonna go up to have write stories about modern day delhi entitled capital his latest book is not hani about the city itself but also about the importance of money in delhi. Rana does go up to was born in britain as the son of indian parents he moved to the city of his forefathers several years ago. Even though he takes a distinctly critical view of delhi the spirit of the city is very harsh and aggressive. Its very paranoid and concerned with threats and security and i think the warmth of the city is. Is is directed inwards so people are very good hosts for instance its a delightful place to be hosted the city because people once they invite you into their home they will give you everything to run up believes that the apparent harshness of the city comes from the fact that have the last few centuries it has been built by immigrants people who have stablished a new life for themselves here regard less of the consequences people say the delhi story ancient city because theyve been cities here for maybe fifteen hundred years but its actually not an ancient city because every time people new sets of people come to the city they they abandon everything thats happened until that point they build another city just next door and then they ransack the old city for stones and everything and build again the british did that locals did that everyone has done that and even now with google which is the new shining tower city of of corporations and indeed in delhi you can take a journey back in time every day bustling own lies in the north of the city. Was gang there is new delhi with its many splendid buildings and government offices located in the far south of the suburbs of noise and go to go on which are also home to millions of people and impress the visitor with their high tech architecture this is the one side of the creative glamorous beautiful side. In delhi when work is over for the day and the temperature has dropped below forty degrees people head for the cities pox and lakes this manmade lake in the trending neighborhood of house cars is particularly popular the water is too dirty for a swimming and but the lake is perfect for strolling around. And after a stroll its away from the lake shore and into the fray. In hamburg they head for the chance and in munich they head for shopping here in delhi party goers make for how its cars village with its countless restaurants and music clubs this is the epicenter of the capitals nightlife but on this particular evening it is not the rotating turntables that are the focus of attention but a group of poets who are taking part in the very fast daily youth poetry slam poetry slam is a kind of competition a capella its each presentation last a few minutes and is always extremely personal the upper edge limit for participants is twenty five. And it gratitude for the believe it was instilled. That day my friend dont give up for this fight for your dream is true each time you find yourself in with a hiccup remember dougan we believe in you and the dream. We want to bring young people to the movement so we want to talk about personal and the political we want to bring young people bring out their war says and perform in front of small audiences will build a community which speaks in a chaotic city like delhi i wish when cupid struck its arrow in love came knocking a poem this woman wrote deals with the risk of falling in love she would like our is to carry a warning but since they dont fall in love remains dangerous. But mind you there are other ways to use his have to trade hard for it however now that i am already here these deal with caution. Are. Here the poem is presented as a song with guitar complement pain for lines about love and life. But not all the poets focus on intimate and every day. So we talk about gay rights feminism gender is a is a really big draw in slam poetry so youll see we have performers who talk about how you know it is to be a woman in india. Be in northeastern india in a city which is discriminatory. This pirate is not even indian she comes from tibet doesnt really feel at home anywhere and now works through her frustration with poetry. I dont have the same spirit of the unadulterated tibetan like india to myself the elders called them sondra but quietly they get offended the youth are a little more creative in choosing words for those not born in india. But on the city streets and just another cheeky. The audience applauded and fees he asked to play every time. They host. Afterwards they head off to other clubs where the evening isnt yet over. For example to manuever presentations also take place albeit of a totally different kind. Welcome to the daily death fest. It death metal is a particularly violent form of hard rock the bass is extra heavy the voice is extra deep and the near its extra gloomy but in no way could the mood be described as apocalyptic. Camp. Camp abroad its more like a lifestyle you will have all the people you love people in the sixtys fiftys also attending their shows but as in india once they start working you know once they have real jobs and to get married and all that kind of great Mickey Mantle is not there as a life stage. A death party as a fun event that is how ohv also sees things he was born in hamburg but india has been his home for a long time now as a side job he sells records and fun articles expanded its subsidiary and because. I came here when i was seventeen but i can tell you about india is that the underground lives metal is always for the other side india too has its problems and many of the kids and even over fiftys also need metal music to distance themselves from the mainstream because the stuff tends to come. Inside the blast continues but only until midnight otherwise the neighbors will complain. This is just the right place for those who like things quieter and more classical dance performance in a theater in delhi many of the audience are here for a particular reason their friends or relatives of the evenings dance or this will be her first major appearance after a long period of training naturally coaches also present. Classical arts whenever for the public it was always for the elite and for a collage those who were educators like opera and ballet all these modern music contemporary dance salsa whatever tango and all that their common goal but classical arts traditional arts never die there like a golden piece so gold never goes out of fashion as it loses sheen. Its known as could. This form of dawns comes from Southern India but the story the dancer tells with her body is universal it is about the conflict between good and evil and the hope for worldwide peace salvation through beauty. And. This place is a mix of classical culture and modern consumerism the kingdom of trains in the suburb of go go on is an Entertainment Center with a not official sky and beneath it a boulevard on which you can visit every wage in india and rapid succession in one day anyone who is tired of walking. Can sit down and enjoy a touch of bollywood the duns interlude however is merely an appetizer for the Main Attraction the dream that many indians and even non indians love to nourish most of all the doing of bollywood. The numbering more than one hundred the dream characters are of course made of flesh and blood some of them have played in some good or more than a thousand times some good or is the story of a prince who has to choose between two women one a princess the other a rebel initially i was not an actor i was a cricketer so. When i. Joined this field i think i started with the mimicry and all. Means. Bollard films always inspired me. The need different and all emotions highly drama so. I get more do with it from that films i love theatre actually in charge of a camera i feel i feel as if as if im im blocked but i love speech i love being on stage i love the energy on stage i love the fact that we only get one take you know everything is life even if you make a mistake you have to live with it so thats thats a very challenging and and i just love stage i love gigi out to the audience more the best thing is you dont have to understand hindi to understand this show because it is it is very very self explanatory you know exactly whats happening its simplistic in the storyline but just while in the way its presented so you dont even need to have your headphones on oh you dont need supply of any kind of a translator you are just enjoy because you will get to see Bollywood Life so im. In truth bollywood style to show us the nearly three how was the costs a Million Dollars and thats a happy ending to celebrate one between two women the prince gets what he wants first the love of the apple and then the hand of the princess in marriage the audience is happy off to the end found in the round belly is so crass dream its at least. Thats my. Thang. From the came to move drains to outright harsh and often im just reality to one of delhis many slums home to those who cannot afford the steadily rising cost of rented accommodation most of them came to delhi from far off places at a time when cheap labor was in great demand since then many have become unemployed. Because you could only be thought some of my neighbors have been living here for twenty years theres no electricity no Running Water and no toilets money so we live without any goal and without any form of comfort. Like many here crime t. Hoped that she and her husband and their children would be able to move into a proper house but she has since abandoned that dream with all my near the bottom if i went how are we supposed to move into a bigger house if we have no income my husband cant find work anywhere we have no future and i have. The husband of russian a her neighbor is also out of work the whole family live from what she earns as a cleaner about two years a day and also is there i only hope that my children will be able to escape from poverty weve often thought about how we could get away but since we dont have any relatives who could take us then we have to stay a year be amenable to me at the gathering. Yet luxury is close by located just around the corner in fact is dennys most luxurious shopping temple here Running Water is literally fired into the air. And this again is the other side of the social coin a slum where water is scarce despite the vast amount of rain that falls in the monsoon season since the rainwater mixes with the filth here its full of junk and not safe to drink you wont find any water pipes here only water stations where every now and then a truck with a water tank will stop at the moment there are none inside want to get out of it out of every day we have to fight for the bit of water we can get two or three canisters profamily thats nothing. What about that about them and there are no wells here we complain and complain about nothing happens at seven let america dont get any get in get me that i gotta get it. While they are waiting here a truck arrives at another water station people immediately rush up and get as much water as they can because no one knows when the next dilip. Free will be. If we get water here every one or two weeks that is nowhere near often enough so we have to fetch it from other places and thats tough especially for the women. There. One resident told us that criminal gangs profit from the water shortage. Of money baby in some gang members have taken control of a public water tank mayor here there are just as i think. They sell the water illegally to people who dont even live here we have available low paid. An hour later the other end of the slum is a hive of activity at long last a truck with a full water tank has arrived not only in delhi for hundreds of millions of people throughout india living from canister to mouth so to speak is the rule because many settlements dont even exist officially they mushroom without any functioning administration experts are calling on the government to take action. So what the government is to look at is to strengthen it so Distribution System if not two networks if not two Pipeline Networks it can make bulk storage points and from there on allow people to make their own user groups. As yet however there is no solution in sight and the time consuming procurement of water remains the fate of the poor how can they or their children ever escape from grinding poverty when many hours every day a wasted in fetching it out of the water situation is appalling it takes forever for water to arrive and when it does theres chaos the children have to help so they can attend School Fights break out and the police have to intervene its madness. The women then carry their canisters home the families water requirements are covered for today tomorrow theyll have to ask around again to find out where water is available free of charge. Yeah there is water in abundance but it is unpalatable flowing through delhi is the young mouna the second biggest tributary of the ganges which by many indians is a sacred river. The yemen that is probably the most polluted river in the world hundreds of millions of liters of wasted dumped into it every day. The farmers who grow their food and venture doubles along the banks of the river a very worried. That i would gunned up the river is completely polluted the main culprits are the factories who just discharge their waste in it you cant farm with water thats contaminated its a health risk. Its said that we use the filthy water but thats not true we irrigate our fields with well water which we filter first we even drink the water and we are healthy. There are far too few Water Treatment plants the only hope is that at least the ground water isnt toxic and can be used for preparing meals. But if i cook with water from the river my children become ill so we avoid the river and only use water from the well. But one environmentalists expect believes that pharmacy grow their vegetables here are wrong and thinking themselves safe so even if you take ground water theyll be something creation but its not a complete prevention and you will find. The same levels of doctors. And that also has dangerous consequences for those who consume the vegetables since it is in the body this is in the body of the vegetable you cannot wash it off theres almost nothing you can do about it cadmium effects the kidneys and and. Similarly other chemicals can be endocrine disrupters they have long term intergenerational impacts they also can go cause cancer people who shop at the many markets have little idea of the risks they dont even know where the project comes from they think its enough to just clean it by hand but thats wrong. And what this guy washed vegetables thoroughly before i cooked them i know they contain a lot of pollutants that can make you ill so i clean them carefully. The Indian Government promised years ago to clean up the ganges and its tributaries but so far little has been done even though many indians revere the ganges as a goddess as yet it seems too few people are bothered by the fact that this divine river is more like a sewer. But there is also another way of dealing with refuse a creative fun fact here art is produced from scrap rusty containers are dont want with graffiti even artists from europe participate here they find that what is to crap it and chaotic fuse that creativity you got to see a part of india that not many people get to see so we experience something very raw very raw very good oh ive never seen so much diversity in my entire life ive never experienced a country where theres twenty seven different official languages and thousands of gods this muralist dedicated not to a devotee but to a National Model of all places Mahatma Gandhi the peace activist a dooms the facade at the Police Headquarters his portrait was painted many years ago by a german it marked the birth of delhis street movement. Also gives some kind of a hope. To do the people and to this community which is generally very neglected neglected in things that are. Like these children who cant get enough of seeing top Class International lot in then neighborhood simply amazing. Theres not have free will he says artists come here from all over the world its great. I like to tell an ethical. And in all likelihood they will continue to come because in delhi there are still countless containers that can be decorated and no end of shoddy facades either. Off the wall you have. If there are protests about him vajra mental pollution and injustice anywhere in delhi then this is the most likely place yet at first glance everything seems so laid back and unpolitical and always has at the heart of a congested metropolis of over fifteen Million People this is the danube and elite University Many of its eight thousand students as well as a large number of its professors come from the lower social classes so its no surprise that ideologically the jan you leans to the left fighting slogans and revolutionary icons adorn the rules at the moment the students attorney against indias government and its hindu nationalist policies. We are opposed to the governments economic policies we are opposed to the governments politics the way it is opposing the politics of hatred of politics of communism and caused injustice that is that is Something Real close to and we repeatedly it is always things are getting really bad and i mean there were lots of conversations to be had with parents also scared and who didnt want us to take strong positions because everyone was targeting students one by one. He said even universities outside india so given our solidarity so we do believe that its a very strong message step Strong Movement which is including a lot of you with a lot of young people a lot of like minded people together. The movement is headed by the man who sparked off the protests can i. Is the leader of the all India Student federation after attending a rally against the execution of a kashmiri separatist he was accused of sedition and arrested. Was relea