Hm. Ah ah, with india a country steep tin ritual where spirituality is an integral part of life i. 2 to day politically charged, so good. And so the narrative in which nationalism and hindu is em, rules supreme and where i hate speech and violence towards non hindus around the rise a nation plagued by poverty and inequality. But with soaring ambitions, including the conquest of how to space in all this is india 75 years after independence, a country often called the Worlds Largest democracy. Now home to almost 1400000000 people like a pivotal figure in the birth of modern india was mohandas. Karen chand gandy known as mahatma, or great sold a man Whose Campaign of non violent resistance helped free the country in 1947 from British Colonial rule. When gandhi had to fight the cotton empire of british, he did not take out camel. He pulled out a spinning and when he was asked, how do you think a few pieces of wood can bring you freedom . Is it the only thing that can . Because any one can make a Spinning Wheel, the poorest woman in the poorest hut can spin her freedom. So the Spinning Wheel became not just the symbol, but the methodology of getting freedom in the colonialism and globalization of their time. Gandy. So the Spinning Wheel as a symbol of National Identity and economic independence, a country where ordinary men and women would spin their own class. Brandon, a shiva is one of candys most prominent intellectual heirs and a vocal critic of modern globalization. She continues the fight for his ideals of freedom, equality, and non violent change. Ideals that paved the way to indias independence on the 15th of august, 1947 at the midnight hour when the room sleep well a week late and read on ah, oh ah, iran gandy was born in 1934. Hes a grandson of mahatma gandhi, and spend time with his grandfather as a child. The most important, bradley is i think would be true. He always interested. The truth is the supper life. We have to be able to speak the truth 10 and find the truth, pursued the truth. He, along with political contemporaries such as jo, holla, nehru, and b. Im baker gandy envisioned in india in which everyone enjoyed equal rights irrespective of religion. An india that would vanquish poverty and hunger. But what remains today of candys vision of freedom, equality and peaceful coexistence. I didnt know rent removed. He became Prime Minister in 2014 his right wing. Hindu nationalist party has been reshaping the country. The b j. P actively champions hindu with them. Instrumental lising it for political gain recent years have seen arise in hatred and incitement to violence towards non hindus, especially muslims. For this government. Good. And this is a gun, this philosophy lead obvious you didnt believe in god. This philosophy has no respect and he does Everything Possible to eliminate the image of the candy saying continue to provide inspiration the world over. But do his ideals still have meaning in the india of today . Ah ah for millions of indian men and women, poverty is a trap with no prospect of escape. Thanks to the ancient cast system. It dates back some 3000 years and divides people from bus in a social hierarchy of forecasts, priests warriors, and rulers, merchants and laborers. One group are so low in the hierarchy that theyre not even deemed worthy of a cost doll. Its have no other choice than to do the jobs. Nobody else wants, such as cleanings, sewers, and latrines by hand. Lana if atlanta but i wont ever 30. 00 to 50. 00 rupees per month. Per house will mean that they have whatever little i get paid. I try to make sure that im looking at but i thought ive been doing this for 50 or 60 years now on you to would have been a while. Don, its the scene is unclean and have long been deemed societies untouchables. They endure many hardships and discrimination and all too often violence. Bessler de wilson is a crusader for the rights of dar lets he also comes from a darling family and his parents and brothers worked to collecting human waste. To day wilson leads a nation Wide Movement to eradicate what is known as manual. Scavenging constitution says, the pupils are on free and we are all equal. And we do have an invite to life with the dignity but content that the practice off the manual. Scavenging forcing that, another human being to clean the human, its rita, which is good to new, almost think. Go think i dont please come in when you buy. Dont please take a seat that dealt birdsall beaverton. Well, i dont, its make up a round 18 percent of indias population. More than 250000000 people are as uncle dana, india did on almost a do one leg, 10000 people are did cleaning the human excreta mentality of their might. Have you met because it is being an individual, brian and, and guinea that love not her. Im debbie admitted im dan. You sorry, but your mother lot. Yes. Said. Did the job by you or by 10 years old . Had yes, about 10 or 12 this wide us alga thats by the uh huh. And when did you put a film basket on my head for me to go off and empty it in a monson a ball but lot. What is on need . It was and really hard work, not even that you have your face covered the stench of someone elses excrement is difficult to bear a year or 2. You who glamourai all that work and theyd give me a shout like one rotate one piece of bread and theyd keep their distance handing it to me. Ah, no, lou lou ah yeah. So that of the people that think that that built that or somebody was the point them brand to somebody as in a boy. Yeah. Im such people are saying that dont key the polluted things. Ah, i mean there is no one for them. Exercising him to know you must do, you must. But theyre made that doesnt institutionalize. Nobody calls since, nobody us white resentments. This is that there is no cost system in indiana. Constitution says article 17 ability and bandaged. But when it is there, ballast ah, a good one, sometimes done it madness climb down through the drains and into the sewage system with no protective gear. They wont allow this to be filmed since this kind of work is officially prohibited with just getting a gun. The bless at a local, we get cold to peoples houses because a lot hill drain was younger this. Hm. So 1st they moved to foot matt and curtains aside. Others hated our hands. Mustnt touch anything, said little noddy. Then we go inside and get to work. Go a lot if we ask to pick something up, they say im no, no, no, not that is global level that i was met him yet. Mcdonald hasnt been meaning humbled. Hang it up is. And if we do touch it, theyll say now youve ruined bullying and a lot about them. Good luck to be uploading alive. Thats on touch ability. I think you want a building want campus at the end on for the impending will, i will. What do you want the best try that is not didnt got vegetable, it means that bestbuy the human are larry human beings, confidence level and did it, didnt it didnt sell for us back into the break into the business like and they would say that dallas, that you come and bumping to with me with this is one of the careful with this one. Good. Keep your distance digital right down to the bottom. Yes. Little blue and the other drain to oh, we didnt realize he inhaled the gas. That wasnt, it was only when he started choking. He died soon afterwards. Don, its have been killed cleaning sewers and septic tanks, usually due to toxic gases like me saying, and hydrogen, so fight goldman buffer india and 1993 fostered the how enacted to prohibit the man was coverage in india. After 10 years we all seen what happened that that isnt a law which prohibits why the back to still time did in. Oh, in 2013 new legislation consolidated the ban on manual scavenging without protective equipment. The Modi Government has introduced many social programs such as the construction of toilets. But the discrimination and injustice faced by doll its persists. It went to the Supreme Court long struggling. Any hardness never punished even a single bud all day when he its act after the act a man meant to after the man meant what the law but never punished even a single. Whats my name was oh up other go. But absolutely. School papa started feeling on well as soon as the gas hit him, gas look being ordered going again the moment we opened the lid of the gutter. But he got restless and started sweating, a garage over his whole body was drench. Its any sort of machine warner gospel bonnie on and i got put it to me on medical nick as a medical needs id while we were taking him to the hospital, he inhaled a lot of us really awful gas grading on the lid of the drain jam for a long time, hope is no one had any idea. One was down there on the middle and everyones out trying to earn a few rupees. But who knows what awaits them belong to no medical, tortuga dolah with the 2000 to 4 deed the supreme good has given a gentleman did the mention that the man said not any human being should not entered into the man who are left to see what life, and if something happens in accidentally, in case of him, within, in some cases there, how to go away. 10 legs compensation like them only. We started counting a home. Many people died in the country club plaza. Our really surprised that we got almost like a 1600 and odd that our people with the biggy out of be collecting that we submitted to the government but the debt says not stopped. The early in last year in duluth said we have was seen, witnessed, almost like get 9 deaths within a one month and out 9 debts. So we have saying that to white, im the government to make such missions and give it to them. Let them, ill put in such missions and stop dis killings in that. See what ive got. Thats so that is the demand which we are taking forward across the country. Ah, my grandfather and vision in india where everybody would be no one knows what each and every hindu word been or knows how region or rigid word being described for the low cost untouchable people were being oppressed. He called them artisan, which means children are wrong and he said the day everybody at dawn score the sense that they have commented in the gosh system. So then all the hinders were to have the right to be known as our regions. And by doing that to you as eliminating the whole cast system a investment of wilsons eyes mahatma gandhi, should have done more. Gandhi also said that my mother has cleaned my and scanning women. Hes also cleaning this. Shes like my mother. If i have any chance um, but leave one on the next but and i want to become it. I want to bon into the family of this candidate. So you good if i the system you said that until i come as in a next bad you people in london, you do the stan lindsey. So you brought, if i that, and my mother did them do you actually may want to say, but did this is that wrong . Which is an in human which is are not c s which is not accepted by any human. So 50 sin. But whats mom thats got him . Kim gandy. Nambla said, i know every human life is using all human rights. Are the same richness and poverty. Dont make you unequal in your humanity blue to look it over, stand over the stand and pour the water. This is im going to part of, well talk, i cant read or write any something i dont want my child uneducated to, im to so i want my child to move forward in life. What im, what i belong to be known as the illiterate man. But if i was able to get his child educator, someone idea ah, ah, lou, lou, lou, while gandy held truce to be the highest virtue, the pursuit of truth is increasingly difficult in todays india. In 2022, the Countries Global press Freedom Rankings slipped to a 150 out of a 180 countries. 22 year old for him is a reporter with the Marijuana Community radio. It takes a lot of courage to become a journalist here, especially as a women in a patriarchal society. More than 40 journalists have been murdered in india since 2014, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters, workable shade rushing their am radio may what will this morning for . He has come to meet a young woman with calling sandita. She didnt want her real name to be made public. I started off as salon tor lackey. At lauder, please at delilah, run jenoma. Many of the women for hain interviews have to remain anonymous for their own safety medicine. The my problem is ive been married for 3 years, said i was beaten up in law, then i wasnt allowed back inside on that another i spent the whole night outside of the bud buddy. But to let in let you in the house. So hes in the home, pay them right to left, then her matchmaker tried to intervene or will they ignored him and wouldnt let me in. I was out there all night was out of about 30 then what happening in time . So they were weeks of in the morning i called my mother home, but what could she do . Li golf. She thought i should just carry on living with my husband. His daughters are meant to do that and he beat me up a lot. No one protected me cold, bloody will guide them in ality. In the dear to sound like you one after one and a half years they said theyd only take me back with the diary and then its about the diary. Yes, dan mc, how high a diary bellotta 500000 rubies and a bell . Laura car only then what do you take me back and then they threatened to poison me to death. There are countless cases like sanji does across india. Many thousands of them in both hindu communities and in predominantly muslim areas like here in may. What needed lujan knows when my daughter was married into a home where she is and how we brought it makes me desperate to know. My child is so unhappy or made a girl. I been wrong with my children have been wronged noodle they broke my wifes hand and her leg or a broken innocent childs hand too early. Isnt it picked up this nancy and knows . Im truly desperate and will you miss willis . Dont cry on phrase ability to pause my daughter, but doesnt pay alimony. Thou dont cry about whats happened is happening at all. Its a difficult situation if the, hey, can you do and need a rental cleanup anyhow. My router is governed, gavin arch in a kapoor launched the Award Winning may White CommunityRadio Station in 2010. It serves this local area 70 kilometer south of the indian capital in new delhi. It changed cuz he had a gallery along that in me while every 2nd house has a case of violence, Domestic Violence, or sexual violence, or any other kind of violence. I registered or reported, or somebodys daughter sitting at home waiting for the husband. Or though in laws to come into the gallery and when we started interacting in the village, we realized that this was a huge problem and nobody was talking about it. Even when we talked to the administration, the dollars. You would all programs on health and sanitation, but you know, Domestic Violence is not such a big issue. This is part of the character. This is a big deal going society. But then what would the rights of these girls he would, you know, me like without company the best up . Im get, walk a hon. Yeah. Like a job of the press is to record on stories of exploitation and suffering low people who are being denied their right. I got on by. If we keep giving the head of the Village Council, the platform were following the same mind. Sadly that only people with power can be heard to pass by. Then how can we give the powerless voice meals . If we dont change the mindset, how will we change our fate of nick . Is michael getting subsidy, but yet you take them out of your money back together. Have nobody trust that because of the strict guidelines of community did yours. We do not have the right to report on protest. We do not have the right to report on descent. We do not have the right to talk about, got into phase. If that is a rape in me lot and there are plenty to report about. We cannot talk about it. So we have to walk about the whole incident in already round about mana, so we talk about that. But then we talk about rights of a woman, we dorn back about the violation of the rights of a woman by somebody who was in power. Its an uncomfortable truth. Some prefer to avoid india is a dangerous country for women and girls. Many victims of Domestic Violence. So wary of going to the police out of fear of social stigma, its hoped that more female Police Officers will foster greater trust. Gisela, guttural, di run to his child to his i will have the Village Council decide. Again, if im going to press charges, either will help you go. Unless you have any objections. Good. No. Ah ah. May now be or let it go. These are the situation of women and girls. Here is such that if the Village School only has classes through 8th grade and then the girls were any study through 8th grade the booth at a at, at i. And they wont be sent to any other vintage to continue their schooling. Right. People here feel theres no point in the goals studying at shes only going to end up doing housework. Thats it. And being able to run one household as more than enough, because it was like im in my village. The school only went to 8th grade, only. I was too scared to go outside my village until you would have dropped me off and picked me up. You guys told me i was always scared of going anywhere by myself, and thats why i didnt continue my school and high because journalists like for haine and Radio Stations like melt take their message directly to that audience. For many women its the only way to learn about their rights. More than 30 percent of women in india are illiterate with power i how long have you been listening to the show though . 2 years . 02 year old son of so whats the name of the program . Its about Domestic Violence, video and Domestic Violence covers a lot of things. Financial abuse ah. All right, so and what else . Psychological violin, the psychological violence. Thats right. I like that even is that not any . I mean, yeah, go ahead. Joe, usa and dad, when we broadcast our show on Domestic Violence, there on may a listening to the mighty media and they accuse us of making their wives rebellious. I mean, because if they realized that were not allowed to beat them, theyll seek legal help them. Mm hm. Yeah. They dont let they was listened to. The program is that he can get, they say youre turning our lives against us and now theyre going to go to the pol