India's 'Slumdog' Millions: A glimpse of life in Bihar's slums

This short film, narrated by Mark Tully, shows a glimpse of what life is like for one family living in the slum of Kamla Nehru Nagar (Bihar, central India).

Slum-dwellers are vulnerable. With no permanent roof over their heads, little prospect of a secure job and poor access to basic sanitation, bad health and social exclusion is rife. Children can become easy victims of crime, prostitution and child labour.

This video shows how preventable diseases take a huge toll on slum-dwelling families.

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[MrChutzpah2002]

India is not the 4th largest economy, it's the 10th or 7th....and I don't think it will overtake US

[linafelina]

India has the worst slums in the world



[iamswild]

When we send them money they don't preserve it though... They just have another millions of babies. Why have 5 babies if you can't look after yourself? I know they ain't been educated that much but come on, where is the common sense?

I think they should start making it so they can only have one kid, that way the population would go down. Burn the trash and rubbish and educate the kids about sex. How do we even know our money reaches these people? I know its harsh but its true.

[panzerfavst]

Caste based politics? Are they living under a rock? India outlawed the Caste System many years ago...

[dzgfdg]

@Ozzy9111 India is not communistic, China has population control because it can repress it's people. India has more freedom than those Chinese. I think we should put our Indian comrades in the army to increase our very large standing army size. JAI HIND!

[barrelofagun08]

hehehe!

[vrvi]

i want to point out that slums are just one part of india. i have lived in india for years and i have never set foot in a slum. the western media and hollywood love to focus on slums, but india is a massive country with so much more than slums. there are more people in india in general, which means there are more poor, but there are also more rich and middle class (more than the population of the US). every country has bad parts. please don't judge us based on ours.

[deoman99]

@neilam6

well our concept of poverty is different.Our societies are not that crafty as the Scandinavians ,there fore we never hard furniture(as there was no need for it due to the warm climate),we never built great ships because we had agriculture,we are a different breed of people.

[Ozzy9111]

I don't get it! How can a nation like India have nuclear weapons yet still have slums so poor and with little government assistance.

Why haven't they adopted population control policies either? India is reported to be over a billion in population, where does it end? They have many great thinkers, have they thought and act upon sustainability processes.

[neilam6]

why has this been allowed 2 happen?