Cole Bauer

December 7, 2010

Human Geography

There have been many things I have learned about India over our studies in class. I learned that India is hugely populated. In one city there can be as many as 4 million people. To me this is amazing because even I haven’t even probably seen that many people whether it be in a television show or in real life. I have also learned that the India slums are horrible. Kids and adults alike have to live their life with hardly anything every day.

The adults who live in the slums that do have kids have to produce even more necessities so that their family may survive. The children of the slums are a whole other story. The children are beaten at home and even at school. For the kids that don’t go to school sometimes they have to go out onto the streets and beg. As we saw in the movie they had a sort of begging company. They would make the kids go with them and then make the children go out on the streets and beg for money.

The children get money by any means necessary. They will go up to anyone anywhere and beg for money so that they may bring it back to the people that brought them in to “help” them. We also learned about the India film industry. In India the film industry is huge. Anyone who is anyone goes to watch movies in India. Even some people in the slums are able to go and watch movies. Now the movies in India are different because they are shorter. In America the movies can be as long as three hours. In India the movies are much shorter than three hour. You may think that they cannot be big in film if their movies are short, but they make so many movies that it levels out.

I have also learned that India’s population is 1,173,108,018 people. I have also learned that the percentage of the Indian population that live below the poverty line is 25%. The country of India also has problems with getting clean water.  One of the major rivers, the Yamuna River, has a lot of pollution. In Hindu mythology the river was known as the water from the heavens. Now, the water is so disgusting no one wants to drink from it. The Indians are lacking the necessity for sewage disposal.