The Backward Class

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They come from the poorest of the Indian poor, but they’re being given an education worthy of the wealthiest of the wealthy. Their school is a social experiment, whose sources of funding are struggling through the economic crisis. Their families and socio-economic contemporaries remain entrenched in the generations of destitution long associated with their Dalit ('untouchable') caste. They are the twelfth graders of Shanti Bhavan School, living proof of the forgotten potential of the rural poor.

A hopeful coming-of-age story—the first class of Dalit ("untouchable") caste students in India's history, undertake the national ISC high school graduation exams as a means to a brighter future for themselves, and an opportunity to break their families out of the destitution they've been entrenched in for generations.

“...a genuinely moving and inspiring documentary that will resonate with viewers” - Craig Takeuchi, The Georgia Straight

“...intimately captures an inspiring story of perseverance, and… doesn’t shy away from addressing the very real challenges, sacrifices, and ethical dilemmas that are being faced.” - Jury - Alliance of Women Film Journalists

“Had me crying and cheering at the end…” - Alex Hutt, Canadian Film Review

"...Grant spends enough time with her subjects to fully illustrate what they have to overcome and how insurmountable it must seem to all of them." - Andrew Parker, Dork Shelf

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Main credits

Grant, Madeleine (film director)
Grant, Madeleine (film producer)
Grant, Madeleine (screenwriter)
Cheung, Jessica (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Nathan Drillot, Chris Hebert, Mikle Rae; editing, Aynsley Baldwin; music, Edo van Breemen.

MARC Record See Worldcat record

Keywords

Education,New Education,Teaching,India,caste,Dalit,untouchables,untouchable,education,class,Shanti Bhavan School,rural poor,high school,graduation,Indian school certificate; "The Backward Class"; Collective Eye Films

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(clears throat)

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Do you want me to read it?

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(sighs gently)

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My childhood had not been a very pleasant one.

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Every time I think about my childhood memories,

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the first thing that comes to my mind is when I was burnt.

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(ambient music)

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I led my childhood in hunger, humiliation, fear,

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and deep anger towards the injustice done to me.

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I would have died of hunger and rejection,

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without accomplishing anything,

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or leaving any footprints in the sands of time.

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(ambient music)

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I was in fourth grade

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when I returned home to find no father to carry me.

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It was worse than the pangs of hunger

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I felt when I was three.

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(ambient music)

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My father does not view child labor as evil,

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because in addition to being uneducated,

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he began earning for his family at the age of 10.

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(crowd murmurs)

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Being tagged as an untouchable by a caste system,

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I know that I still belong to another world

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that has forgotten opportunity.

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(ambient music)

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Not everyone fits easily

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into one neat box, including myself.

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(ambient music)

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I have lived between two worlds,

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one of comfort and education,

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the other, hardships and sorrow.

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This year I'll be graduating from my school,

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which has been a home for me for the past 13 years.

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I seek admission into college,

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not only to prepare for a professional job,

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but also to accomplish my most important goal,

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the dream to reverse the effect of poverty on my family.

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(ambient music)

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This is my personal statement.

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Personal statement.

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My personal statement.

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(ambient music)

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You hear, the stories of how India is growing so rapidly,

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which is true.

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There's a lot of wealth being created.

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But how many people are the beneficiaries?

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75% of India is below $2 a day.

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Why is that?

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For poor people, there is one standard.

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For rich people, there is another standard.

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Rich people send their kids to the best schools.

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Poor people send them to government schools.

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And I felt, that if you're going to break the cycle

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of disadvantage, social and economic disadvantage,

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you have to do something different.

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(ambient music)

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When I first arrived after 25 years in the United States,

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I came to Bangalore city,

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which is the Silicon Valley of India.

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And I said to my driver, the taxi I took, I said,

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listen, take me out of the city.

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I want to see what India looks like.

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(ambient music)

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Within 35 minutes, I ended up in a village.

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And it looked so different,

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it has nothing to do with Bangalore city.

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And within another half an hour, I was deep in rural India.

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(ambient music)

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(foreign music)

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We stopped by a Lake and he said,

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this is the place that I come from, it's very, very poor.

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There is female infanticide,

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most of the people are without food to eat,

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healthcare is terrible, schools don't run.

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And there is a piece of land on the other side of the lake,

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if you want to buy, you can buy it.

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He took me to a Gowda, Gowda is a landlord,

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and I bought the 30 acres of land from him same day.

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Because I realized that,

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if I can create an institution, Shanti Bhavan,

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that would take a few children and give them the best care,

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and the best education, and they become leaders of tomorrow.

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They will carry with them hundreds of others,

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their own families and elsewhere.

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I was so naive

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that I thought that I could create 100 Shanti Bhavans,

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and I'm still struggling to run one.

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(ambient music)

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(birds chirping)

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(knocking)

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(speaking foreign language)

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Does the computer accept this?

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Yes!

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Okay wait, wait, try to focus.

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Oh, this is turning over here, and it turns.

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See there the funny lines are here boy!

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Three, two, one, roll.

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Hi!

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(speaking foreign language)

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

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Here on stage we have a very--

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Successful lawyer.
A very successful lawyer.

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Man of the century.
Who has completed 30 years

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Of successful--

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And successful businessman too.

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And a successful entrepreneur.

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Yes.

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And he has helped poor children

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in many countries around the world.

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My name is Vijay Kumar Veerapan.

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I really want to get into the National Law School.

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Yeah, it is the best.

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But, for that you need to get like a 92 on your board exams.

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So that itself is...

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(laughs gently)

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But that's what I really want.

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Many people call me Vijay Kumar Veerapan,

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but it must probably have known as The Savior.

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(laughs gently)

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(ambient music)

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(snaps fingers)

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(spanks bums)

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Please, turn it man, I don't want to see my teeth!

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I'm Mala, and I never show my teeth

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in any photo in my whole life.

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No, your teeth are not even being shown.

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I've done something really special

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that makes your gap look really--

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You know, I'm gonna do something so special for you,

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you'll have a gap the entire of your life.

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(ambient music)

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(speaking foreign language)

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You're beautiful, Mala!

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What should I tell?

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Mala, I love you.

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Mala, I love you.

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(ambient music)

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(speaking foreign language)

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This is from a bed sheet,

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and this is my zodiac.

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I once dreamt of going to NID, National Institute of Design.

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But I don't know.

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I should have decided it a long time ago.

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Like, I have no time.

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I'm telling everybody at home I'm gonna be an engineer

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because if I told them I don't know what I want to become

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then they'll say, she's hopeless.

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(speaking foreign language)

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(laughs gently)
(speaking foreign language)

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(crow caws)

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(students murmur)

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Yesterday I gave you your literature papers

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without the question papers.

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And I think you need to look at them more carefully.

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Because this the ISC pattern.

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Vijay you can give these out.

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Rajini.

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Okay, taking out an exercise from the ISCE book,

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you have to fill in the blanks with these phrases.

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Pull together.

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What does it mean?

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Collective.
Pull together.

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Bring together.

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Team work, work together.
Let's pull together.

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Yes.

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Pulling closer.
Let's pull together.

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Let us work for the team.

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To pull together means, we all pull our resources.

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We work together, as a team, or as a family.

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For the soccer match.

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(chuckles) For everything.

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(chuckles)

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Even for the exams.

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Even though there are government programs

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and reservations for children of lower castes,

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in practice somehow,

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it doesn't work as well as it looks on paper.

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(children playing)

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It's as if there's a collective ascent

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that people from say the lower castes,

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should not come up in life.

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(ambient music)

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(speaking foreign language)

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(ambient music)

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Shanti Bhavan was a dream that I identified with,

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and to set up an institution from scratch,

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it was wildly exciting and challenging

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and we all were ready to lay ourselves on the line

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and give everything.

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Dr. George himself,

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he's put all his money into this project.

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My professional career is spanning almost 23, 25 years.

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I realized that the reason that I succeeded,

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is because I had the opportunity to succeed.

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I knew deep down that if I do well,

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I have a chance of succeeding.

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I had chance of professionally gaining.

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And then I thought about people

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who just don't have that chance.

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(ambient music)

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It occurred to me that it's not a shortage of money

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that keeps people poor.

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Poverty is a result of sort of lack of opportunity.

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(ambient music)

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My family cannot afford to educate me.

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So, they came to know that Shanti Bhavan

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was selecting kids.

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We'd all come here for screening.

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And then Mrs. Law, a doctor and a psychologist,

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they interviewed me.

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They screened me, actually.

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It was a very simple task,

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he just showed some few cards,

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and I had to draw exactly like that.

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At that time, those rumors spread like,

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they take children in Shanti Bhavan,

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and they pull out their kidneys and all those things,

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and they send it to foreign countries and to America.

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So actually my parents were really scared and--

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I was like, really excited about this new place.

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And it was like totally like forests

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and just one building and everything green around

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and with people smiling and hugging you.

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The smell of new napkins, frocks, sheets,

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I remember the smell.

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It was so good.

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(chuckles)

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(students murmur)

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My dream is, that I will one day,

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in my lifetime, see many of you in major leadership roles.

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I love you but, (students chuckle) you have to work hard,

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watch out.

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(children murmur)

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(speaking foreign language)

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When you come to Shanti Bhavan, home is just like a dream.

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It's a whole another planet, it is a good thing.

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Because, if you like, you constantly keep thinking of family

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and it disturbs you.

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Like seeing your mother and father fight,

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and like knowing that there is no money in the family,

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and like they desperately tried to have ends meet,

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it all disturbs a child.

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(students murmur)

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You can see self motification.

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I don't believe in that.

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(chuckles)

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See, generally boys don't talk about such things,

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but because you all are so interested

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I'm gonna tell you all.

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And I don't know if you all should be believing me or not.

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(bird chirps)

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So the notorious guys,

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(chuckles)

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Vijay, myself, we are pretty much

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the mischief makers in school (chuckles).

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I mean, I am notorious, I can't be a good guy (chuckles),

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I really can't.

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Till Eighth Grade I was like,

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every year I was been chosen as the best boy

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and a role model for the younger kids,

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and the best student and all that.

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Then when I came to ninth grade, it was like,

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I had to change my lifestyle (laughs).

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Now I don't know,

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none of us want to get into trouble, because of the exams,

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so we are playing smart.

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After the exams area over we'll get back to normal.

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(chuckles)

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This like one music like I've memorized now.

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I've to write this down before I leave school.

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I wrote it when I was in 11th grade, that's like last year.

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I think I was a little down, I don't know.

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(gentle piano music)

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Excellent.

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Right now, like, whatever I am studying in physics,

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my brother's already knowing that in actual

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and I'm really fascinated by that.

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He knows exactly how the gears work, everything of a car.

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And that's what exactly I'm going to be studying

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in engineering school when I go to engineering.

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So I think of like, I study engineering

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and my brother knows, like the actual work

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and then we can collaborate

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and start a huge company or something.

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Please listen, those who do electrical reconnection,

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just spiral it up then only your connections

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will be quite gentle and nice.

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Okay, do like this this spiral.

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Math is my subject,

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but I'm scared that physics will be very difficult.

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The boys see so much of logic in physics but I can't see.

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(murmurs)

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Finished?

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No, there's no deflection coming up.

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Hmm.

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I want to make a lot of money.

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So that's why I channeled my interests in doing engineering,

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but I have no idea how I'm going to get through physics.

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(crowd cheers)

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(upbeat music)

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(crowd cheers)

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(upbeat music)

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Anith, Anith, Anith!

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So children, you have a wonderful holiday

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at home with your parents.

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And speaking of breaks,

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I absolutely forbid the public exam classes,

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that's the 12th, to take home even a leaf out of a textbook.

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Because a break increases efficiency.

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You owe it to yourselves.

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You really owe it to your families,

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to interact with them, to spend time with them,

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to listen to them and try and understand them,

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to be considerate, to share in your household chores.

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Even if you're grazing cows,

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nothing you learn in life is ever wasted.

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(children playing)

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(engine revs)

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They're quarry laborers, rag pickers, sex workers,

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coolies, daily wage earners.

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Those are their parents,

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and those are very low income unskilled jobs.

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And they live most of them in very pathetic conditions.

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(ambient music)

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(crowd murmurs)

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Because your brother's not at home,

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you have to take care of your mother.

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He is coming, but still,

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you too have to take care of your mother Vijay,

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you also have a duty.

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And please listen to your mother.

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Go, happy New Year, Happy Christmas.

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(speaking foreign language)

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(engine revving)

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(foreign music)

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(upbeat music)

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They kept it two weeks for the winter holidays,

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because they don't want to burden our parents

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and our family members.

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Many of the children, when they come back, they're sick,

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because their standard of living is low.

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Before I came to Shanti Bhavan,

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I was living with my father.

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And every night he drank and he came

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and like created a lot of problems

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at home beating my mother.

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I don't go back home at all because this uncle,

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he like use me for getting money like send me to one man

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and get money like prostitute.

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So that's why I don't go home now.

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(upbeat music)

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I was staying in a hut exactly like this before.

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Four to five members used to stay in one house.

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We used to cook there, also sleep there.

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But for toilet we have to go like really long distance.

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Most children who come to Shanti Bhavan,

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their parents can't afford to keep them.

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Just imagine they have one child,

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how much labor they would have spent in 14 years,

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raising their child?

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All that is gone just like that

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putting them in Shanti Bhavan.

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(upbeat music)

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My parents' house is like on a property

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which the government owns.

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So anytime the government can make a decision

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to break down house,

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they're just telling us that they're going

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to break our houses down, and we're living in that fright.

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Hello, good morning.

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Yeah, so this is my house.

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Yes.

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So this is my house, and my brother and my dad.

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(speaking foreign language)

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Hi, he says he's 16 years old.

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(speaking foreign language)

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Eighth grade.

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He stopped going to school from eighth grade,

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since he couldn't cope up.

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(speaking foreign language)

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So he says like,

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he goes to the garage at eight o'clock in the morning.

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And then like, if a vehicle comes to be fixed,

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he fixes the vehicle,

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and he returns home at eight in the evening.

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Two of us sleep on top, three of us sleep down,

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my mum with my sister.

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My sister, she like, she doesn't want to sleep like

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without my mother at night, so she sleeps with my mother.

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And my brother or I, sleep top with my dad.

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The other one is with my mom.

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(utensils clatter)

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Recently, like, my mom she has found a school

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where she's going working as a kitchen maid.

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They look at my family as people who like

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are like, part of the cleaning staff and all that.

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So, actually, the mind set is very low for my parents,

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from their point of view.

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But if they know that like a maid's child

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is going studying English

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and knows how to speak in English

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and can converse in English, they feel,

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oh, my, we should have respected this parent long before.

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It's like they form like a hierarchy in their mind,

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which has been like broken.

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(speaking foreign language)

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(ambient music)

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We are from a really poor background

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so like people try to shun us.

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So due to that, my father left our family.

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My whole childhood, my father was absent,

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and my mother had to go break stones.

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(stones clatter)

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My grandmother's still works in the quarry.

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She gets like 60 to 80 rupees per day.

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(stones clatter)

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Like there are days

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when the little wage that they get,

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they don't get on time, and some days going without food.

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(ambient music)

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(crowd murmuring)

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My mother, she dies flowers, and she sends them.

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She was in a domestic help.

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My grandmother,

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she works in other people's houses.

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My dad is a construction worker.

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My father works works as a mason.

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Most of the time, my mother,

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my brother, and my sister

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used to stay with our father on the construction sites.

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(speaking foreign language)

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My mother, she used to go to the construction work,

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just lift the cements and give to the men.

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And that was when she like had the accident

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falling off and all that.

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I don't know, poverty is full of sadness

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and tears and fights, drinking, alcoholism.

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I don't know where I would have been,

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like drunk, being able to become a drunkard,

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like, most of my village friends, right?

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What they do, they all become masons,

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following their fathers, and drink every night,

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and that's how they get married.

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(children playing)

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I don't try to stand out.

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At Shanti Bhavan, I might try to be the guy of the art,

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but at home, they all know that I know how to speak English,

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they don't know how to speak English.

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So what's the point of like laying show off,

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like stand out of the crowd?

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(children playing)

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(grass rustle)

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My father, hasn't gone to school one day of his life.

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From the age of 10, he started earning for his family.

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My mother...

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See generally, when a daughter gets married,

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she goes to her husband's house.

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So then she, even if she earns money,

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it goes to somebody else.

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But if the son earns money, he looks after the parents.

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So the parents feel that it's no use

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educating their daughters.

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(speaking foreign language)

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(ambient music)

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People say money is everything.

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But I have learned that money is everything,

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and money may not be everything also.

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It is because of money that my family

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is in that situation now.

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And there are so many people out there

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who are suffering because of the same reasons.

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This is my father,

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this is the only picture we have of our father.

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This' my father, my mother, me, my younger sister...

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My father was like, for me, everything.

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He used to go for work, and every evening

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I used to wait for him to come back.

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And my father and I used to play Snake and Ladder.

482
00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:45.740 line:15%
We used to spend a lot of time and he was...

483
00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:49.653 line:15%
I used to love him a lot and he meant a lot to me,

484
00:27:49.653 --> 00:27:53.560 line:15%
but he left us and he went away when I was in fourth grade.

485
00:27:53.560 --> 00:27:56.973 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

486
00:27:56.973 --> 00:28:00.380 line:15%
(laughs gently)

487
00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:04.047 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

488
00:28:11.607 --> 00:28:12.440 line:15%
She's telling that I was very naughty

489
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.773 line:15%
and I never listened to anyone when I was small.

490
00:28:17.290 --> 00:28:18.560 line:15%
I can't remember this well,

491
00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:20.940 line:15%
but I was telling my grandmother a story

492
00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:22.290 line:15%
and my grandmother,

493
00:28:22.290 --> 00:28:26.140 line:15%
she threw everything and she ran down and I ran behind her.

494
00:28:26.140 --> 00:28:28.660 line:15%
And we went and saw and there was like,

495
00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:33.160 line:15%
my mom was on fire and she was like fully burning.

496
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.740 line:15%
And I didn't know what had happened, I didn't know anything,

497
00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:40.840 line:15%
but my father's hand also got burnt and I was crying.

498
00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:43.140 line:15%
And my younger sister was crying really badly.

499
00:28:44.060 --> 00:28:46.143
(sweeps)

500
00:28:47.790 --> 00:28:49.780 line:15%
What my younger sister says is that,

501
00:28:49.780 --> 00:28:52.100 line:15%
my mother and father were fighting,

502
00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:54.430 line:15%
and my mother put the kerosene on herself,

503
00:28:54.430 --> 00:28:56.687 line:15%
and my father lit the fire,

504
00:28:56.687 --> 00:28:59.178 line:15%
but nobody knows if this is the fact,

505
00:28:59.178 --> 00:29:01.320 line:15%
and nobody knows if it's the other way round,

506
00:29:01.320 --> 00:29:02.153 line:15%
nobody knows what happened.

507
00:29:02.153 --> 00:29:06.033 line:15%
All we know is that my mother was burning from head to toe.

508
00:29:07.477 --> 00:29:11.144
(speaking foreign language)

509
00:29:15.347 --> 00:29:17.700 line:15%
She told me that she was happy

510
00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:19.843 line:15%
that she survived that for our sake.

511
00:29:28.886 --> 00:29:30.841
(engine revs)

512
00:29:30.841 --> 00:29:33.424
(cars hooting)

513
00:30:14.695 --> 00:30:15.528 line:15%
Uncle.

514
00:30:16.725 --> 00:30:18.392 line:15%
Uncle Chandrashekar!

515
00:30:20.433 --> 00:30:24.100 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

516
00:30:27.499 --> 00:30:30.082
(upbeat music)

517
00:30:53.125 --> 00:30:55.625
(bird chirps)

518
00:31:17.449 --> 00:31:21.116 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

519
00:31:43.657 --> 00:31:46.324 line:15%
(crowd murmurs)

520
00:31:54.199 --> 00:31:57.866 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

521
00:32:23.893 --> 00:32:26.703 line:15%
The National Institute of Design.

522
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.336 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

523
00:32:31.336 --> 00:32:32.169 line:15%
Fashion designing.

524
00:32:34.403 --> 00:32:38.070 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

525
00:32:42.189 --> 00:32:44.106 line:15%
Sales Marketing auntie.

526
00:33:01.510 --> 00:33:05.873
This place is not just a school, it's where we live.

527
00:33:07.849 --> 00:33:12.060
And we're trying to live with a very idealistic way,

528
00:33:12.060 --> 00:33:15.523
that all people are same, we treat them the same way,

529
00:33:16.529 --> 00:33:19.833
and nationalities don't matter, religion doesn't matter.

530
00:33:21.110 --> 00:33:23.253
It's almost too pure to be true.

531
00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:26.932
Can you make it work?

532
00:33:29.940 --> 00:33:31.640
That's what I'm hoping (chuckles).

533
00:33:40.099 --> 00:33:42.266
(murmurs)

534
00:33:43.192 --> 00:33:45.620 line:15%
It scares me like to think of the consequences

535
00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:47.393 line:15%
of not getting through the exam.

536
00:33:49.257 --> 00:33:51.513 line:15%
It's like no point of this whole thing.

537
00:33:52.360 --> 00:33:55.809 line:15%
If you fail in the 12th then you don't get into colleges,

538
00:33:55.809 --> 00:33:57.300 line:15%
you don't get admission anywhere,

539
00:33:57.300 --> 00:33:59.943 line:15%
and so I'll have to go back to where I was,

540
00:34:00.905 --> 00:34:02.655 line:15%
like cleaning houses.

541
00:34:07.050 --> 00:34:09.717
(ambient music)

542
00:34:17.802 --> 00:34:18.635
(sighs)

543
00:34:18.635 --> 00:34:19.770 line:15%
Okay, we are meeting here,

544
00:34:19.770 --> 00:34:22.690 line:15%
mainly to discuss about the upcoming board exams

545
00:34:22.690 --> 00:34:25.150 line:15%
and how we are going to prepare children for that.

546
00:34:25.150 --> 00:34:27.760 line:15%
Okay, so out of the 15 children,

547
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:31.260 line:15%
I just categorize them into three sections.

548
00:34:31.260 --> 00:34:34.390 line:15%
Children who are capable of getting distinction,

549
00:34:34.390 --> 00:34:37.610 line:15%
distinction's 75% and above,

550
00:34:37.610 --> 00:34:40.363 line:15%
and children who are capable of getting first class,

551
00:34:41.337 --> 00:34:42.274 line:15%
which is 60%,

552
00:34:42.274 --> 00:34:46.753 line:15%
and there are a few children who may or may not cross 60.

553
00:34:47.872 --> 00:34:50.539
(ambient music)

554
00:34:52.985 --> 00:34:54.347 line:15%
What if you get above 90, what do you get?

555
00:34:54.347 --> 00:34:57.226 line:15%
75% and above is all distinction.

556
00:34:57.226 --> 00:34:58.250 line:15%
Okay, so 90 up is nothing different?

557
00:34:58.250 --> 00:34:59.873 line:15%
Yeah, no.

558
00:34:59.873 --> 00:35:01.690 line:15%
So under this distinction category,

559
00:35:01.690 --> 00:35:06.690
there's Vijay, Maha, Pushpa, no doubts, right?

560
00:35:07.011 --> 00:35:07.844
Yeah.

561
00:35:07.844 --> 00:35:08.677
Pushpa can also get above 90.

562
00:35:08.677 --> 00:35:09.560
Pushpa works hard.

563
00:35:09.560 --> 00:35:10.682
Yeah.

564
00:35:10.682 --> 00:35:11.515
Vijay just knows he's smart.

565
00:35:11.515 --> 00:35:13.018
(chuckles)

566
00:35:13.018 --> 00:35:13.851
He knows it too well.

567
00:35:13.851 --> 00:35:15.580
He knows it way too well.

568
00:35:15.580 --> 00:35:19.520
Okay Rajini no doubt, Thomas no doubt.

569
00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:22.010
Anith, I put him there,

570
00:35:22.010 --> 00:35:24.623
I hope he gets there, and Sindhu.

571
00:35:26.402 --> 00:35:29.147 line:15%
And in the first class section there's Stella, okay,

572
00:35:29.147 --> 00:35:32.430
but we'll try 100% to push her there.

573
00:35:32.430 --> 00:35:34.563
And there's Vinay, Prakash, and Mala.

574
00:35:35.783 --> 00:35:38.383
Mala has been playing the fool through out the year.

575
00:35:39.550 --> 00:35:42.530 line:15%
What Dr. George wants, is the entire class

576
00:35:42.530 --> 00:35:46.777 line:15%
should get above first class, above 60% .

577
00:35:48.230 --> 00:35:50.423 line:15%
I'm a little bit worried about Anith,

578
00:35:51.410 --> 00:35:53.990 line:15%
because he is a smart kid,

579
00:35:53.990 --> 00:35:56.940 line:15%
but nowadays it seems like basic concepts are missing.

580
00:35:56.940 --> 00:36:00.340 line:15%
But somehow we should like motivate this boy,

581
00:36:00.340 --> 00:36:03.370 line:15%
so that he comes at least closer to 90.

582
00:36:03.370 --> 00:36:05.920 line:15%
Otherwise, I don't know where he's going to end up.

583
00:36:07.995 --> 00:36:12.995 line:15%
I got into trouble last year (chuckles), big trouble.

584
00:36:19.570 --> 00:36:21.943 line:15%
Like throughout last year I was in trouble.

585
00:36:21.943 --> 00:36:24.193 line:15%
I was being called to the principal's office,

586
00:36:25.060 --> 00:36:26.393 line:15%
like twice in a month.

587
00:36:29.930 --> 00:36:33.610 line:15%
And I still didn't realize it back then

588
00:36:33.610 --> 00:36:36.051 line:15%
because I was just not focusing on my studies.

589
00:36:36.051 --> 00:36:40.000 line:15%
I was like having fun, and I was just having fun (chuckles).

590
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.670 line:15%
And then I come to know

591
00:36:41.670 --> 00:36:44.074 line:15%
that I'm not doing well in academics

592
00:36:44.074 --> 00:36:46.243 line:15%
and that like put me under a lot of stress.

593
00:36:46.243 --> 00:36:48.240 line:15%
So I think I'm a little mature enough to understand

594
00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:51.870 line:15%
that I've been foolish to be the way I was,

595
00:36:51.870 --> 00:36:56.010 line:15%
especially in my last senior year, I mean in high school,

596
00:36:56.010 --> 00:36:57.773 line:15%
the last two years of my high school.

597
00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:09.900
Mention something.

598
00:37:11.040 --> 00:37:13.360 line:15%
It's not fair.
The two and a half hours.

599
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:15.260 line:15%
Because we would have worked hard for like two years,

600
00:37:15.260 --> 00:37:16.823 line:15%
and because of two hours, our whole life

601
00:37:16.823 --> 00:37:18.900 line:15%
will go to the dogs.

602
00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:20.730 line:15%
Tell me, is that fair?

603
00:37:22.709 --> 00:37:24.792 line:15%
(knocks)

604
00:37:27.436 --> 00:37:28.627 line:15%
(students murmur)

605
00:37:28.627 --> 00:37:30.333 line:15%
A postpone is not a good idea guys.

606
00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:35.243 line:15%
Most of you want it, all right guy?

607
00:37:35.243 --> 00:37:36.086 line:15%
(student murmurs)

608
00:37:36.086 --> 00:37:37.486 line:15%
Do you want to have the prelims?

609
00:37:37.486 --> 00:37:38.748 line:15%
Do you want to have the prelims?

610
00:37:38.748 --> 00:37:39.840 line:15%
And do you think it's good to have or not?

611
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:41.230 line:15%
No

612
00:37:41.230 --> 00:37:42.660 line:15%
Majority, Vinay?

613
00:37:42.660 --> 00:37:44.276 line:15%
Majority does not.

614
00:37:44.276 --> 00:37:47.480 line:15%
Yes, we will be serious.

615
00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:48.750 line:15%
We'll explain to Mrs. Law clearly

616
00:37:48.750 --> 00:37:51.124 line:15%
why we do not want the exams.

617
00:37:51.124 --> 00:37:53.343 line:15%
Yeah, listen I want to do well in the final exams, man.

618
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:55.980
Okay, sit, why are you standing?

619
00:37:57.050 --> 00:37:59.363
Yeah, so what is the problem?

620
00:38:00.570 --> 00:38:02.160
What we cannot promise is that,

621
00:38:02.160 --> 00:38:03.650 line:15%
even if we're going to study,

622
00:38:03.650 --> 00:38:06.310 line:15%
we have like hardly six days before the prelims,

623
00:38:06.310 --> 00:38:09.050 line:15%
and that time is really not enough

624
00:38:09.050 --> 00:38:10.973 line:15%
to cover the entire syllabus, thoroughly.

625
00:38:10.973 --> 00:38:13.270
See, the whole idea of prelims is

626
00:38:13.270 --> 00:38:15.470
that you have to work under pressure.

627
00:38:15.470 --> 00:38:18.360
You knew that the prelims would be held.

628
00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:20.360
They are mock exams,

629
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.210
which put you under the same kind of pressure

630
00:38:23.210 --> 00:38:25.263
that you are during the board exams.

631
00:38:26.878 --> 00:38:29.720
And you cannot wake up today and say, it's impossible.

632
00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:31.060
You knew this date,

633
00:38:31.060 --> 00:38:33.360
right from the beginning of the academic year.

634
00:38:34.890 --> 00:38:39.400
It's very, very competitive, and it's deadly.

635
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:41.438 line:15%
This is what we've been telling you,

636
00:38:41.438 --> 00:38:42.756 line:15%
(sighs)
(chuckles)

637
00:38:42.756 --> 00:38:45.440 line:15%
for two years, study, study, study.

638
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:48.020 line:15%
And another thing, when the lights go off

639
00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:49.460 line:15%
that's something we can't predict

640
00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:51.210 line:15%
because the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board,

641
00:38:51.210 --> 00:38:52.720 line:15%
doesn't have the courtesy to tell us

642
00:38:52.720 --> 00:38:54.770 line:15%
when there'll be power cuts.

643
00:38:54.770 --> 00:38:56.660 line:15%
So you have to use the daylight hours,

644
00:38:56.660 --> 00:38:59.220 line:15%
to the best advantage.

645
00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:01.263 line:15%
So all the fooling around you've done,

646
00:39:02.132 --> 00:39:04.611 line:15%
I think you have to put a stop to it now.

647
00:39:04.611 --> 00:39:06.611
Yes ma'am.
Yes ma'am.

648
00:39:22.153 --> 00:39:24.030
Having brought up the children last 13 years

649
00:39:24.030 --> 00:39:26.430
and seeing them, there is no going back on it.

650
00:39:26.430 --> 00:39:28.580
The rest of my life I have to be with them.

651
00:39:29.530 --> 00:39:30.363
I have to be there for them.

652
00:39:30.363 --> 00:39:31.650
I just can't walk away.

653
00:39:31.650 --> 00:39:35.830
It's like walking away from your own biological children.

654
00:39:35.830 --> 00:39:40.593
So in that sense, I am there for the rest of my life,

655
00:39:42.510 --> 00:39:44.423
something I didn't really think about.

656
00:39:45.267 --> 00:39:49.982
I wasn't smart enough to think that far at that time.

657
00:39:49.982 --> 00:39:52.315
(bird caws)

658
00:40:04.740 --> 00:40:06.300 line:15%
Hey Thomas, I have a question, boy.

659
00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:08.763 line:15%
When is this building going to be finished?

660
00:40:11.060 --> 00:40:13.030 line:15%
In the last two years,

661
00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:15.750 line:15%
I don't know if it's because of the financial crisis,

662
00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:18.010 line:15%
but the culture of Shanti Bhavan has changed.

663
00:40:18.010 --> 00:40:20.290 line:15%
We used to have many good teachers.

664
00:40:20.290 --> 00:40:22.840 line:15%
I'm not saying we don't have good teachers now,

665
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.373 line:15%
but we used to have better teachers.

666
00:40:26.290 --> 00:40:29.043 line:15%
Residential staff has reduced drastically.

667
00:40:30.140 --> 00:40:31.693 line:15%
And we used to have better meals.

668
00:40:32.822 --> 00:40:34.650 line:15%
I'm not saying the meal now is bad.

669
00:40:34.650 --> 00:40:37.030 line:15%
Like we have very good infrastructure,

670
00:40:37.030 --> 00:40:39.533 line:15%
but it's not maintained properly.

671
00:40:40.690 --> 00:40:43.390 line:15%
Guys, I think so I'd better get down (laughs).

672
00:40:43.390 --> 00:40:46.513 line:15%
It's not healthy, it's all tearing, look at it brothers.

673
00:40:48.211 --> 00:40:51.740 line:15%
I am like, I feel, I am feeling sad.

674
00:40:51.740 --> 00:40:55.293 line:15%
Everything, like quality, has reduced to a great extent.

675
00:40:56.452 --> 00:40:58.785
(birds caw)

676
00:41:07.070 --> 00:41:10.000
So, even though these visitors are coming,

677
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.920
on the eve of the theory papers for the ISC,

678
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:17.020
all of us have to stretch ourselves

679
00:41:17.020 --> 00:41:19.930
and somehow make this visit worthwhile.

680
00:41:19.930 --> 00:41:21.870
So we don't have to pretend,

681
00:41:21.870 --> 00:41:24.610
but we can at least put our best foot forward.

682
00:41:24.610 --> 00:41:27.050
Like at home, when we have visitors,

683
00:41:27.050 --> 00:41:29.617
we tidy the house a little extra, okay?

684
00:41:31.708 --> 00:41:34.625
(children working)

685
00:41:36.694 --> 00:41:37.527
(ambient music)

686
00:41:37.527 --> 00:41:38.360
We get in joules.

687
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:39.973
It's important to know the units you get in,

688
00:41:39.973 --> 00:41:41.992
'cause sometimes when you are given in joules--

689
00:41:41.992 --> 00:41:44.825
(students murmur)

690
00:41:48.809 --> 00:41:51.642
(students murmur)

691
00:41:59.390 --> 00:42:02.057
(ambient music)

692
00:42:05.790 --> 00:42:08.373
(upbeat music)

693
00:42:56.110 --> 00:42:57.783
I foresee change.

694
00:42:58.820 --> 00:43:01.890
I think Shanti Bhavan needs somebody

695
00:43:01.890 --> 00:43:04.310
with different skills from mine,

696
00:43:04.310 --> 00:43:07.830
because it's reached a different stage of its development.

697
00:43:07.830 --> 00:43:08.950
And what it needs now,

698
00:43:08.950 --> 00:43:12.560
is a lot of public relations, fundraising,

699
00:43:12.560 --> 00:43:17.560
and I guess I've done more than I originally committed to.

700
00:43:18.950 --> 00:43:21.347
And it's been very hard on my family.

701
00:43:26.233 --> 00:43:29.066
(students murmur)

702
00:43:35.008 --> 00:43:36.337
(speaking foreign language)

703
00:43:36.337 --> 00:43:38.009
(gentle piano music)

704
00:43:38.009 --> 00:43:40.413
(students murmur)

705
00:43:40.413 --> 00:43:43.163 line:15%
Mrs. Law are you really busy now?

706
00:43:46.006 --> 00:43:48.675 line:15%
Could you come to the music room for a few minutes, please?

707
00:43:48.675 --> 00:43:50.934 line:15%
(gentle piano music)

708
00:43:50.934 --> 00:43:54.449 line:15%
Shh, you guys, I can't hear.

709
00:43:54.449 --> 00:43:55.366 line:15%
Okay ma'am.

710
00:43:59.754 --> 00:44:01.797 line:15%
This song is dedicated to you sister.

711
00:44:01.797 --> 00:44:02.630 line:15%
To me?

712
00:44:02.630 --> 00:44:03.463 line:15%
Yes.

713
00:44:03.463 --> 00:44:04.798 line:15%
I'm honored.

714
00:44:04.798 --> 00:44:06.280
(laughs gently)

715
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:07.665
(gentle piano music)

716
00:44:07.665 --> 00:44:12.665
♪ Give us courage she's our mother ♪

717
00:44:12.903 --> 00:44:16.207
♪ Give us strength when we-- ♪

718
00:44:16.207 --> 00:44:18.797
when we started the school, I went to their homes

719
00:44:18.797 --> 00:44:21.093
and brought them back to Shanti Bhavan in the jeep.

720
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:24.510
They were little then

721
00:44:25.641 --> 00:44:27.523
and I was able to give them so much time.

722
00:44:31.040 --> 00:44:33.253
This has been a home away from home.

723
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:36.255
And for 14 years,

724
00:44:36.255 --> 00:44:40.687
they've had this support system in place, 24 hours a day.

725
00:44:41.900 --> 00:44:45.010
So it's going to be difficult for them leaving,

726
00:44:45.010 --> 00:44:46.640
and difficult for us also.

727
00:44:47.485 --> 00:44:49.035
(gentle piano music)

728
00:44:49.035 --> 00:44:51.618
(students hum)

729
00:45:07.767 --> 00:45:10.267
(birds chirp)

730
00:45:14.393 --> 00:45:16.801 line:15%
Okay, are my 12th grade children out there?

731
00:45:16.801 --> 00:45:19.305 line:15%
Yes sir.
Yes Dr. George.

732
00:45:19.305 --> 00:45:20.352 line:15%
(laughs gently)

733
00:45:20.352 --> 00:45:22.681 line:15%
Its been a long time.

734
00:45:22.681 --> 00:45:25.507 line:15%
I haven't talked to any of you or communicated with you.

735
00:45:25.507 --> 00:45:30.507 line:15%
But I wanted to that before your exams really start.

736
00:45:30.547 --> 00:45:34.650 line:15%
So the great moment is coming and graduation of course,

737
00:45:34.650 --> 00:45:38.095 line:15%
will be a great time to celebrate

738
00:45:38.095 --> 00:45:40.896 line:15%
and to congratulate all of you,

739
00:45:40.896 --> 00:45:44.312 line:15%
for hopefully having done well.

740
00:45:44.312 --> 00:45:47.041 line:15%
I want see that you're going to good colleges.

741
00:45:47.041 --> 00:45:52.041 line:15%
We are working on that, but first you have to do well.

742
00:45:52.237 --> 00:45:54.933 line:15%
You just need do your work.

743
00:45:54.933 --> 00:45:59.384 line:15%
All I want you to do is to work hard, that's all.

744
00:45:59.384 --> 00:46:02.519 line:15%
So don't waste a single second.

745
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.360 line:15%
Children, what do you think?

746
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:08.616 line:15%
You think you are driven and motivated to achieve that?

747
00:46:08.616 --> 00:46:10.033
Yes Dr. George!

748
00:46:11.304 --> 00:46:13.051 line:15%
Everyone, everyone?

749
00:46:13.051 --> 00:46:14.608
Yes Dr. George.

750
00:46:14.608 --> 00:46:16.400
Yes Dr.George!

751
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:19.650 line:15%
Nobody in the world can put you down.

752
00:46:20.947 --> 00:46:22.808 line:15%
Everything is in your hands, okay?

753
00:46:22.808 --> 00:46:24.296
Okay, Dr. George

754
00:46:24.296 --> 00:46:25.664 line:15%
Dr. George?--

755
00:46:25.664 --> 00:46:26.973 line:15%
My children, good luck, good luck to you,

756
00:46:26.973 --> 00:46:28.711 line:15%
my love to all of you.

757
00:46:28.711 --> 00:46:30.391 line:15%
Dr. George, how are you?

758
00:46:30.391 --> 00:46:31.591 line:15%
(laughs gently)

759
00:46:31.591 --> 00:46:32.616 line:15%
I'm always fine.

760
00:46:32.616 --> 00:46:35.283 line:15%
(clears throat)

761
00:46:36.902 --> 00:46:38.750 line:15%
I'm always fine.

762
00:46:38.750 --> 00:46:41.583
(students murmur)

763
00:46:43.988 --> 00:46:45.071 line:15%
Dr. George?

764
00:46:50.654 --> 00:46:52.987
(car hoots)

765
00:46:55.888 --> 00:46:58.160
I have big...

766
00:47:00.941 --> 00:47:02.291
Too many problems to solve,

767
00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:06.710
too many things.

768
00:47:06.710 --> 00:47:08.633 line:15%
I'm not sure a Lalita will continue.

769
00:47:14.629 --> 00:47:16.379
And I have, problems,

770
00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:19.580
cleaning up lots of them.

771
00:47:23.147 --> 00:47:24.097
To hire new people,

772
00:47:27.109 --> 00:47:30.497
children's graduation, admissions, funding (chuckles),

773
00:47:37.699 --> 00:47:40.543
so, it's tough.

774
00:47:44.463 --> 00:47:47.213
(birds chirping)

775
00:48:00.957 --> 00:48:01.852
Yes.

776
00:48:01.852 --> 00:48:03.287
(speaking foreign language)

777
00:48:03.287 --> 00:48:04.120
Yes, yes.

778
00:48:04.120 --> 00:48:06.376
(speaking foreign language)

779
00:48:06.376 --> 00:48:07.209
Yes.

780
00:48:14.886 --> 00:48:17.753
Physics students come into my office, please.

781
00:48:21.300 --> 00:48:22.670
Here, come.

782
00:48:22.670 --> 00:48:23.853
Where's Manimala?

783
00:48:25.021 --> 00:48:26.400
Come.

784
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:28.283
So we'll just say a small prayer.

785
00:48:29.300 --> 00:48:32.243
God, please grant these children,

786
00:48:33.470 --> 00:48:38.400
strength, and courage, and perseverance.

787
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:40.670
Give them the determination

788
00:48:40.670 --> 00:48:43.850
and clear headedness they will need,

789
00:48:43.850 --> 00:48:45.783
to interpret the question paper.

790
00:48:46.740 --> 00:48:51.030
Let them learn, that all of life's lessons,

791
00:48:51.030 --> 00:48:56.030
can be condensed into this first practical examination.

792
00:48:58.429 --> 00:48:59.370
May they realize,

793
00:48:59.370 --> 00:49:03.150
that it is not only the principles of physics

794
00:49:03.150 --> 00:49:04.353
that they are handling,

795
00:49:05.310 --> 00:49:10.310
but that what they learn, they will one day be able

796
00:49:11.020 --> 00:49:14.773
to put at the service of mankind.

797
00:49:15.950 --> 00:49:17.380
Physics, three hours.

798
00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:19.270
Answer all questions in part one

799
00:49:19.270 --> 00:49:21.120
and six questions from part two,

800
00:49:21.120 --> 00:49:23.880
choosing two questions from each of the sections,

801
00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:25.926
A, B and C, all working--

802
00:49:25.926 --> 00:49:27.570
Choose the correct alternative

803
00:49:27.570 --> 00:49:29.110
for each of the questions given below.

804
00:49:29.110 --> 00:49:30.090
Two point charge is--

805
00:49:30.090 --> 00:49:32.579
Two point charge is 70.7--

806
00:49:32.579 --> 00:49:35.412
(students murmur)

807
00:49:38.090 --> 00:49:40.183 line:15%
I tried it with three ammeters,

808
00:49:40.183 --> 00:49:41.790 line:15%
and all the three were not showing deflection.

809
00:49:41.790 --> 00:49:42.623 line:15%
For me the ammeter

810
00:49:42.623 --> 00:49:47.433 line:15%
was not working properly, not working.

811
00:49:47.433 --> 00:49:48.280
It was not working?

812
00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:50.960 line:15%
I told him there's like error in mine,

813
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:52.230 line:15%
and I just need another one.

814
00:49:52.230 --> 00:49:56.075
No, this is a report I think we have to give the council.

815
00:49:56.075 --> 00:49:58.667
Because they are going to lose marks for no fault of them.

816
00:49:58.667 --> 00:50:02.307
Anith's class clearly said, Anith did everything correctly.

817
00:50:02.307 --> 00:50:05.100
But it was not working, and I can only say voltage,

818
00:50:05.100 --> 00:50:07.790
because if a little later Masheizai came in

819
00:50:07.790 --> 00:50:09.978
and it was working with the same connections

820
00:50:09.978 --> 00:50:10.853
obviously the whole--

821
00:50:10.853 --> 00:50:11.825
I'm all right leaving.

822
00:50:11.825 --> 00:50:12.790
I've tested four ammeters, didn't work for me.

823
00:50:12.790 --> 00:50:14.670
That's what I'm saying,

824
00:50:14.670 --> 00:50:15.503
the only explanation I can give you.

825
00:50:15.503 --> 00:50:17.060
I'm not a physicist or anything,

826
00:50:17.060 --> 00:50:20.307
but I know that we have power fluctuation.

827
00:50:20.307 --> 00:50:21.420
Yes.

828
00:50:21.420 --> 00:50:23.700
Anyway, Prakash anything more?

829
00:50:23.700 --> 00:50:25.664 line:15%
I was trying trying to be considerate

830
00:50:25.664 --> 00:50:26.660 line:15%
so I gave off my battery earlier.

831
00:50:26.660 --> 00:50:27.910 line:15%
I just tried it only once

832
00:50:27.910 --> 00:50:29.903 line:15%
and I thought I'll do it later onward.

833
00:50:29.903 --> 00:50:33.240 line:15%
And I gave it up to Thomas for his experiment

834
00:50:33.240 --> 00:50:35.076 line:15%
and before I could get it like,

835
00:50:35.076 --> 00:50:36.547 line:15%
it was going around the other guys.

836
00:50:36.547 --> 00:50:41.547
You know, this is not something students do.

837
00:50:41.680 --> 00:50:42.960
During an examination

838
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:45.010
it's not the time to feel bad for anyone.

839
00:50:46.500 --> 00:50:48.370
You just have to get your job done.

840
00:50:48.370 --> 00:50:52.110
As selfish as it sounds, it's not teamwork.

841
00:50:52.110 --> 00:50:56.384 line:15%
Yeah, but she is correct, she is 100% correct.

842
00:50:56.384 --> 00:50:57.383
You're doing an exam,

843
00:50:57.383 --> 00:50:59.490
you got to mentally switch off.

844
00:50:59.490 --> 00:51:03.370 line:15%
If you see I need this, you know, this is nervous,

845
00:51:03.370 --> 00:51:05.010
you just switch off.

846
00:51:05.010 --> 00:51:06.910
I know you feel for he's like your brother,

847
00:51:06.910 --> 00:51:09.320
but that's not your problem at this point.

848
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:12.867
In an exam you got to be terribly selfish.

849
00:51:14.558 --> 00:51:18.225
You just can't think of others at that time.

850
00:51:20.405 --> 00:51:22.365
So don't be so nice and...

851
00:51:22.365 --> 00:51:24.933
I mean, you can't take this family life

852
00:51:24.933 --> 00:51:27.363
of Shanti Bhavan into the exam hall, yes, okay?

853
00:51:30.152 --> 00:51:32.819
(ambient music)

854
00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:49.377 line:15%
I could have done so well in physics practicals,

855
00:51:49.377 --> 00:51:53.313 line:15%
if only I had stayed calm and managed the time properly.

856
00:51:54.471 --> 00:51:55.671 line:15%
It was totally my fault,

857
00:51:56.660 --> 00:51:59.959 line:15%
not the instruments or anything.

858
00:51:59.959 --> 00:52:02.520 line:15%
I should have managed time properly,

859
00:52:02.520 --> 00:52:04.144 line:15%
And I should have realized

860
00:52:04.144 --> 00:52:05.923 line:15%
that I should increase the voltage.

861
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:09.953 line:15%
It's like not in my reach anymore to make it better.

862
00:52:11.663 --> 00:52:14.330
(ambient music)

863
00:52:17.750 --> 00:52:19.140
What gives us the right,

864
00:52:19.140 --> 00:52:21.640
to pluck these children out of their families,

865
00:52:21.640 --> 00:52:24.440
and their homes, and their villages, or slums,

866
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:29.440
and say, that we have something better in store for them?

867
00:52:30.158 --> 00:52:31.230
(birds caw)

868
00:52:31.230 --> 00:52:34.210
If we can be so boastful and conceited,

869
00:52:34.210 --> 00:52:36.533
then we better live up to our promises,

870
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:39.670
or we shouldn't touch them.

871
00:52:40.854 --> 00:52:42.853
Then I think they'll be happier where they are.

872
00:52:44.662 --> 00:52:46.999
(students cheer)

873
00:52:46.999 --> 00:52:50.150
I've really given my life for the foundation

874
00:52:50.150 --> 00:52:53.340
and for Shanti Bhavan, I can honestly tell you.

875
00:52:53.340 --> 00:52:55.440
Chronologically it's 13 years but,

876
00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:58.733
in actual terms, it's a lifetime.

877
00:53:02.180 --> 00:53:04.000
And I can't give more than that.

878
00:53:10.926 --> 00:53:13.593
(ambient music)

879
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:31.941
(utensils clatter)

880
00:53:31.941 --> 00:53:35.608
(speaking foreign language)

881
00:54:23.530 --> 00:54:25.310
(laughs gently)

882
00:54:25.310 --> 00:54:28.977
(speaking foreign language)

883
00:54:45.230 --> 00:54:47.820 line:15%
My dad, like, it's like really difficult for like him

884
00:54:47.820 --> 00:54:50.420 line:15%
to get the certificate for the tahsildar to sign it.

885
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:52.833 line:15%
So he had to either force them or like,

886
00:54:52.833 --> 00:54:55.740 line:15%
giving some extra money,

887
00:54:55.740 --> 00:54:57.900 line:15%
which is really difficult for my dad.

888
00:54:57.900 --> 00:54:59.700 line:15%
So now he has to go and do it again.

889
00:55:02.648 --> 00:55:06.315 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

890
00:55:19.322 --> 00:55:23.191 line:15%
So your father telling 90%, you have to think 98%.

891
00:55:23.191 --> 00:55:26.858 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

892
00:55:56.900 --> 00:55:59.443
(engine revs)

893
00:55:59.443 --> 00:56:02.691 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

894
00:56:02.691 --> 00:56:03.920
(engine revs)

895
00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:07.587 line:15%
(speaking foreign language)

896
00:56:28.418 --> 00:56:31.259
(children murmur)

897
00:56:31.259 --> 00:56:32.300
Shh, shh!

898
00:56:32.300 --> 00:56:35.980 line:15%
11th and 12th grade boys, the ISC examiner,

899
00:56:35.980 --> 00:56:37.950 line:15%
she's on her way to Shanti Bhavan,

900
00:56:37.950 --> 00:56:40.173 line:15%
and so the gym dorm has to be arranged.

901
00:56:41.348 --> 00:56:42.950 line:15%
It's being used as the examination hall,

902
00:56:42.950 --> 00:56:45.350 line:15%
and you did it last time,

903
00:56:45.350 --> 00:56:48.053 line:15%
could you do it straight away after assembly, please?

904
00:56:48.053 --> 00:56:48.886 line:15%
Yes.

905
00:56:48.886 --> 00:56:52.380 line:15%
Thank you, please stand quickly.

906
00:56:52.380 --> 00:56:54.797
(bell rings)

907
00:56:58.551 --> 00:57:00.070
(ambient music)

908
00:57:00.070 --> 00:57:02.209
(students murmur)

909
00:57:02.209 --> 00:57:04.876
(ambient music)

910
00:57:17.918 --> 00:57:20.060 line:15%
I didn't complete the paper, man.

911
00:57:20.060 --> 00:57:23.432 line:15%
It's okay even I passed it, as long as I don't fail.

912
00:57:23.432 --> 00:57:24.847 line:15%
I knew only one answer.

913
00:57:24.847 --> 00:57:25.680 line:15%
We will do well.

914
00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:27.274 line:15%
Shit.

915
00:57:27.274 --> 00:57:30.534 line:15%
You have no chance to survive in this world.

916
00:57:30.534 --> 00:57:31.978 line:15%
(laughs gently)

917
00:57:31.978 --> 00:57:33.980 line:15%
Pass is enough, how much is pass?

918
00:57:33.980 --> 00:57:38.980 line:15%
40, take it as 40.

919
00:57:40.026 --> 00:57:41.722
(class murmurs)

920
00:57:41.722 --> 00:57:42.555
(knocks)

921
00:57:42.555 --> 00:57:47.043 line:15%
My life is so bad at the moment, in physics and chemistry.

922
00:57:48.050 --> 00:57:52.250 line:15%
I have to learn all my chapters thoroughly,

923
00:57:52.250 --> 00:57:53.917 line:15%
that's all I can do.

924
00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:56.833 line:15%
(ambient music)

925
00:57:56.833 --> 00:57:58.670 line:15%
Right now we should be studying by ourselves,

926
00:57:58.670 --> 00:58:00.143 line:15%
I've been fooling around on all this time.

927
00:58:01.714 --> 00:58:04.047 line:15%
I think I have to do it now.

928
00:58:06.766 --> 00:58:07.599
(ambient music)

929
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:10.780 line:15%
That is an indoor gym, Mrs. Rao, which we...

930
00:58:11.836 --> 00:58:13.542 line:15%
It's literally multipurpose.

931
00:58:13.542 --> 00:58:15.883 line:15%
We've temporarily converted it into a dorm.

932
00:58:16.810 --> 00:58:19.083 line:15%
But whenever the exams are around the corner,

933
00:58:20.038 --> 00:58:22.380 line:15%
we use it as an exam hall.

934
00:58:22.380 --> 00:58:25.178 line:15%
Oh, so this will be the examination hall, now?

935
00:58:25.178 --> 00:58:26.086 line:15%
Yes.

936
00:58:26.086 --> 00:58:27.837 line:15%
So we displace ll the kids who are here,

937
00:58:27.837 --> 00:58:28.873 line:15%
we've put them in other places,

938
00:58:30.286 --> 00:58:33.036 line:15%
and we use this as the exam hall.

939
00:58:34.698 --> 00:58:36.181 line:15%
Many students from my class go often

940
00:58:36.181 --> 00:58:39.090 line:15%
to visit her with their problems and their concerns,

941
00:58:39.090 --> 00:58:40.543 line:15%
but I never go to Mrs. Law.

942
00:58:41.730 --> 00:58:46.680 line:15%
My studies are going on, not well, but,

943
00:58:46.680 --> 00:58:48.800 line:15%
Mrs. Law also has lots of work.

944
00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:50.244 line:15%
I can see that she's overworked

945
00:58:50.244 --> 00:58:53.123 line:15%
and I don't like burdening her with my problems too.

946
00:58:54.203 --> 00:58:56.130 line:15%
(ambient music)

947
00:58:56.130 --> 00:58:58.908 line:15%
If I study in the daytime, I'll be like,

948
00:58:58.908 --> 00:59:00.660 line:15%
it'll be reduced at least now.

949
00:59:00.660 --> 00:59:03.450 line:15%
Like I'd be done by like 3:00 in the morning,

950
00:59:03.450 --> 00:59:05.217 line:15%
instead of 4:30 (laughs).

951
00:59:07.490 --> 00:59:09.636 line:15%
See, right now I like have 10 days,

952
00:59:09.636 --> 00:59:12.574 line:15%
so if I work out 100 problems to 1000 problems,

953
00:59:12.574 --> 00:59:15.093 line:15%
(clicks) that's good, that sounds good, I have to do it.

954
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:18.892 line:15%
(ambient music)

955
00:59:18.892 --> 00:59:20.392 line:15%
That sounds crazy.

956
00:59:21.510 --> 00:59:24.177
(ambient music)

957
00:59:36.934 --> 00:59:39.684
(birds chirping)

958
00:59:58.832 --> 01:00:01.499
(ambient music)

959
01:00:12.343 --> 01:00:16.340
So children, this is what happens on all the exam days,

960
01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:19.708
whichever children are going to have the exams.

961
01:00:19.708 --> 01:00:22.793
Before 12:40 you will assemble in this hall.

962
01:00:22.793 --> 01:00:25.328
We say the prayers here and we go for lunch here.

963
01:00:25.328 --> 01:00:26.896
If you don't want to eat here,

964
01:00:26.896 --> 01:00:29.396
(audio blurs)

965
01:00:34.731 --> 01:00:36.379
And when you are back at 4:30,

966
01:00:36.379 --> 01:00:37.212
you should go straight to the dining hall

967
01:00:37.212 --> 01:00:38.938
and you'll get snacks.

968
01:00:38.938 --> 01:00:39.860
(bird caws)

969
01:00:39.860 --> 01:00:41.496
Is that clear?

970
01:00:41.496 --> 01:00:44.163
(ambient music)

971
01:00:46.368 --> 01:00:49.201
(students murmur)

972
01:00:52.620 --> 01:00:55.060 line:15%
God, thank you for giving us this day.

973
01:00:55.060 --> 01:00:57.280 line:15%
Thank you for bringing us all these years,

974
01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:58.940 line:15%
till this last point.

975
01:00:58.940 --> 01:01:01.300 line:15%
This is our last chance to prove to the world

976
01:01:01.300 --> 01:01:02.850 line:15%
what we are capable of.

977
01:01:02.850 --> 01:01:04.060 line:15%
So that in the end,

978
01:01:04.060 --> 01:01:06.530 line:15%
not only we are happy with our marks, but the whole world,

979
01:01:06.530 --> 01:01:08.547 line:15%
who's waiting to see our results,

980
01:01:08.547 --> 01:01:10.440 line:15%
and be happy once they see our results

981
01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:14.120 line:15%
so that they can help the future children of Shanti Bhavan.

982
01:01:14.120 --> 01:01:14.953 line:15%
Thank you God.

983
01:01:17.631 --> 01:01:20.464
(students murmur)

984
01:01:22.150 --> 01:01:24.020
Okay, good afternoon, and all the best.

985
01:01:24.020 --> 01:01:24.970
Please sit down.

986
01:01:27.130 --> 01:01:30.770
Okay you have the answer sheets there,

987
01:01:30.770 --> 01:01:33.013
kindly fill in the details,

988
01:01:34.060 --> 01:01:39.060
B/8277/, whatever is your number.

989
01:01:41.626 --> 01:01:43.180
(stones clatter)

990
01:01:43.180 --> 01:01:46.780
Subject, English Paper 1,

991
01:01:49.365 --> 01:01:50.603
and then your signature.

992
01:01:52.169 --> 01:01:54.836
(ambient music)

993
01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:58.753
Don't open the paper, until I ask you to do so.

994
01:02:01.230 --> 01:02:03.897
(ambient music)

995
01:02:06.174 --> 01:02:08.841
(hammer knocks)

996
01:02:09.990 --> 01:02:12.740
(stones clatter)

997
01:02:14.050 --> 01:02:15.303
15 minutes reading time.

998
01:02:16.356 --> 01:02:19.023
(ambient music)

999
01:02:24.224 --> 01:02:26.724
You are begging to live today.

1000
01:02:27.905 --> 01:02:30.440
(students murmur)

1001
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:34.035
Write a composition in approximately 450 to 400 words,

1002
01:02:34.035 --> 01:02:35.969
on any of the following subjects.

1003
01:02:35.969 --> 01:02:38.813
Man is born free, but in real life, he is in chains.

1004
01:02:39.957 --> 01:02:42.527
He is in chains, what are your views on this?

1005
01:02:42.527 --> 01:02:45.560
Form a reflections on his personality.

1006
01:02:45.560 --> 01:02:48.560
Describe one such form of a person you know.

1007
01:02:48.560 --> 01:02:52.627
In what way does it reflect his or her personality?

1008
01:02:53.752 --> 01:02:56.419
(ambient music)

1009
01:03:05.850 --> 01:03:10.800 line:15%
My mother has no one else, and only I am there for her.

1010
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:13.913 line:15%
So success is not a choice, I have to do it.

1011
01:03:15.176 --> 01:03:16.009
(ambient music)

1012
01:03:16.009 --> 01:03:18.600
Begin the answer to each separate part

1013
01:03:18.600 --> 01:03:20.817
of the question corner.

1014
01:03:20.817 --> 01:03:22.303
Since are given in brackets,

1015
01:03:22.303 --> 01:03:24.790
balanced equations must be given wherever possible.

1016
01:03:24.790 --> 01:03:26.783 line:15%
Whatever great passions I have raging within me,

1017
01:03:26.783 --> 01:03:29.940 line:15%
I always have choice, the choice to do what is right.

1018
01:03:29.940 --> 01:03:31.427 line:15%
I want to start a business of my own

1019
01:03:31.427 --> 01:03:33.090 line:15%
and one day give back to society.

1020
01:03:33.090 --> 01:03:35.336 line:15%
I want tradition that break the caste system.

1021
01:03:35.336 --> 01:03:37.953
I have always desired to uplift my family

1022
01:03:37.953 --> 01:03:39.226 line:15%
from the sufferings--

1023
01:03:39.226 --> 01:03:40.585 line:15%
And never again, look down

1024
01:03:40.585 --> 01:03:41.567 line:15%
with tears of shame in the eyes.

1025
01:03:41.567 --> 01:03:42.743
I will never compromise--

1026
01:03:42.743 --> 01:03:46.357
I am the beacon of hope, I am the only hope.

1027
01:03:46.357 --> 01:03:48.920 line:15%
It is a very big responsibility which I have to carry,

1028
01:03:48.920 --> 01:03:52.590 line:15%
but I know it is my responsibility to help the village

1029
01:03:52.590 --> 01:03:56.453 line:15%
act as the catalyst to move the village forward.

1030
01:03:56.453 --> 01:03:59.120
(ambient music)

1031
01:04:00.940 --> 01:04:03.542
Being born a boy of the slums, society demands

1032
01:04:03.542 --> 01:04:05.470 line:15%
that I see myself as a loser,

1033
01:04:05.470 --> 01:04:08.650 line:15%
a person to remain poor all of his life.

1034
01:04:08.650 --> 01:04:11.287 line:15%
No, I see a different picture.

1035
01:04:11.287 --> 01:04:13.954
(ambient music)

1036
01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:24.320
As a mother, a grandmother, and a teacher,

1037
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:27.983
I have had the joy of seeing you children grow.

1038
01:04:30.297 --> 01:04:33.470
(students applaud)

1039
01:04:33.470 --> 01:04:36.470
I am especially proud of the elder children

1040
01:04:36.470 --> 01:04:38.543
with whom I have worked intimately,

1041
01:04:39.903 --> 01:04:41.907
from the time they entered Shanti Bhavan as little lambs.

1042
01:04:44.614 --> 01:04:47.364
(students cheer)

1043
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:54.510
(acoustic music)

1044
01:05:03.580 --> 01:05:08.580
I want you seniors to know that my hope is that

1045
01:05:08.890 --> 01:05:11.870
you will graduate with honor,

1046
01:05:11.870 --> 01:05:16.623
each time you face a crisis of conscience in your lives.

1047
01:05:17.640 --> 01:05:22.200
Due to personal circumstances, I will be on leave,

1048
01:05:22.200 --> 01:05:26.033
pending my resignation, starting tomorrow.

1049
01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:32.040
I leave with a heavy heart, broken into a million pieces.

1050
01:05:33.850 --> 01:05:36.460
Shanti Bhavan will live on,

1051
01:05:36.460 --> 01:05:41.460
because its vision is pure and untainted.

1052
01:05:41.500 --> 01:05:44.953
No one can contaminate or destroy that.

1053
01:05:46.560 --> 01:05:48.863
Thank you and good night.

1054
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.833
(students murmur)

1055
01:06:08.631 --> 01:06:11.418 line:15%
Mrs. Law, a bond between a son and a mother,

1056
01:06:11.418 --> 01:06:14.585 line:15%
it never dies, so this is not the end.

1057
01:06:16.865 --> 01:06:19.143 line:15%
When you grow old and you need someone

1058
01:06:19.143 --> 01:06:22.226 line:15%
to read you your stories, we'll be there.

1059
01:06:22.226 --> 01:06:25.952 line:15%
And you taught us the golden and the magic words,

1060
01:06:25.952 --> 01:06:29.369 line:15%
and I am saying them, thank you Mrs. Law.

1061
01:06:30.402 --> 01:06:32.698 line:15%
Mrs. Law, if it wasn't of you,

1062
01:06:32.698 --> 01:06:35.050 line:15%
today I might have been married,

1063
01:06:35.050 --> 01:06:39.717 line:15%
or I would have been taken to (sobs)...

1064
01:06:43.103 --> 01:06:45.731 line:15%
Mrs. Law, I would like to thank you

1065
01:06:45.731 --> 01:06:47.930 line:15%
for everything you've done for us.

1066
01:06:47.930 --> 01:06:51.797 line:15%
You've taken care of us, since like, we were little babies.

1067
01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:57.679 line:15%
Like, you wiped our tears, and sometimes, like even we've...

1068
01:06:59.287 --> 01:07:01.064
(sobs)

1069
01:07:01.064 --> 01:07:01.904
(students moan)

1070
01:07:01.904 --> 01:07:04.987
(gentle piano music)

1071
01:07:51.983 --> 01:07:55.066
(gentle piano music)

1072
01:09:03.185 --> 01:09:05.268
(sweeps)

1073
01:09:19.610 --> 01:09:22.280 line:15%
As we journey through each day of our lives,

1074
01:09:22.280 --> 01:09:24.340 line:15%
give us the grace to accept

1075
01:09:24.340 --> 01:09:26.680 line:15%
whatever you have in store for us.

1076
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.820 line:15%
Be with us in our joy and our sorrow.

1077
01:09:28.820 --> 01:09:33.250 line:15%
Help us to build Shanti Bhavan into a haven of peace.

1078
01:09:33.250 --> 01:09:35.700 line:15%
We salute the divine in each other.

1079
01:09:35.700 --> 01:09:37.553 line:15%
Namaste, namaste, namaste.

1080
01:09:44.938 --> 01:09:46.490
(keyboard clatters)

1081
01:09:46.490 --> 01:09:50.220
All you can do is try to do a good job

1082
01:09:50.220 --> 01:09:51.663
at what you're trying to do.

1083
01:09:53.070 --> 01:09:58.070
And hopefully something good happens and go on with it

1084
01:09:59.687 --> 01:10:04.687
without worrying about what others think.

1085
01:10:06.230 --> 01:10:07.783
Something good happens as good.

1086
01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:14.513
You wasted your time and lost all your money, you're a fool.

1087
01:10:17.420 --> 01:10:18.683
I'm somewhere in between.

1088
01:10:19.733 --> 01:10:22.400
(laughs gently)

1089
01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:30.600
You can ask Miriam when she comes here,

1090
01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:32.200
what she goes through every day,

1091
01:10:33.690 --> 01:10:36.841
I wiped out the entire family and wealth,

1092
01:10:36.841 --> 01:10:39.137
entire family wealth.

1093
01:10:39.137 --> 01:10:40.130
There are nights at two o'clock

1094
01:10:40.130 --> 01:10:42.880
she wakes up in panic and tells me, what have you done?

1095
01:10:44.340 --> 01:10:45.940
And you tell your two sons,

1096
01:10:45.940 --> 01:10:48.670
I don't have the money to send you to college.

1097
01:10:48.670 --> 01:10:49.983
You want to see that?

1098
01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:54.580
I show you on the website, if you want to see.

1099
01:10:54.580 --> 01:10:58.943
My house on sale, nothing left, nothing.

1100
01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:04.090
I'm starting all over again with the carrier.

1101
01:11:05.280 --> 01:11:07.440
And the gain, every money is going back

1102
01:11:07.440 --> 01:11:08.590
into George foundation.

1103
01:11:15.242 --> 01:11:19.010
(crickets stridulate)

1104
01:11:19.010 --> 01:11:23.830
A decision was made that it is better for you to go

1105
01:11:23.830 --> 01:11:27.032
to colleges that have a national reputation

1106
01:11:27.032 --> 01:11:28.400
or in fact international reputation,

1107
01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:31.580
than going to a college which has no reputation,

1108
01:11:31.580 --> 01:11:33.390
of any significance.

1109
01:11:33.390 --> 01:11:37.140
Vijay and Maha, I don't feel comfortable sending you

1110
01:11:37.140 --> 01:11:41.002
to some low college, which has no reputation,

1111
01:11:41.002 --> 01:11:43.380
having to get a law degree and it's not going to help you.

1112
01:11:43.380 --> 01:11:48.020
Maha, I would like you to go to Mount Carmel, okay?

1113
01:11:48.020 --> 01:11:52.240
Going to a college like Mount Carmel or St. Joseph's,

1114
01:11:52.240 --> 01:11:55.550
it's like, in India, going to Harvard.

1115
01:11:55.550 --> 01:11:58.963
And after that you have LLB if you want to still go do law.

1116
01:12:00.420 --> 01:12:04.130
Vijay, you said you wanted to choose B.Comm.

1117
01:12:04.130 --> 01:12:06.230
If you're not so sure about Christ,

1118
01:12:06.230 --> 01:12:08.440
at St. Joseph's we have built a relationship

1119
01:12:08.440 --> 01:12:11.552
and connection to Christ, we are not so sure.

1120
01:12:11.552 --> 01:12:14.620
So we are doing everything possible

1121
01:12:14.620 --> 01:12:16.293
to get you into St. Joseph's.

1122
01:12:17.190 --> 01:12:18.230
Wherever we can find,

1123
01:12:18.230 --> 01:12:21.550
if you're in a quality institution, we've tried.

1124
01:12:21.550 --> 01:12:23.193
So that's where it stands.

1125
01:12:24.794 --> 01:12:27.627
(students murmur)

1126
01:12:29.730 --> 01:12:31.880 line:15%
I won't go to college.

1127
01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:32.832 line:15%
Vijay you already got a--

1128
01:12:32.832 --> 01:12:34.665 line:15%
Nobody's even making the effort with Christ.

1129
01:12:34.665 --> 01:12:36.103 line:15%
Vijay you go talk to him.

1130
01:12:36.103 --> 01:12:37.855 line:15%
Upstairs he doesn't listen to anybody,

1131
01:12:37.855 --> 01:12:39.760 line:15%
he listens to his own brains.

1132
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:41.830 line:15%
Vijay what's in your head?

1133
01:12:41.830 --> 01:12:42.940 line:15%
You want to go to which one?

1134
01:12:42.940 --> 01:12:45.010 line:15%
He wants to go to Christ only, boy.

1135
01:12:45.010 --> 01:12:47.743 line:15%
Christ, go talk to Dr. George, man.

1136
01:12:47.743 --> 01:12:50.418
(students murmur)

1137
01:12:50.418 --> 01:12:55.418 line:15%
Just go try boy, just talk to him.

1138
01:12:56.592 --> 01:12:59.810 line:15%
And I promise he'll listen to you boy.

1139
01:12:59.810 --> 01:13:03.227 line:15%
You have to just explain yourself to him.

1140
01:13:06.474 --> 01:13:09.307
(students murmur)

1141
01:13:33.999 --> 01:13:35.090
Excuse me.

1142
01:13:35.090 --> 01:13:38.090
I'll just see you in five minutes.

1143
01:14:01.561 --> 01:14:04.061
(engine revs)

1144
01:14:12.737 --> 01:14:15.404 line:15%
(ambient music)

1145
01:14:32.273 --> 01:14:34.940
(crowd murmurs)

1146
01:14:43.330 --> 01:14:44.720 line:15%
80 is the cutoff percentage

1147
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:46.357 line:15%
for an engineering student, 80.

1148
01:14:47.710 --> 01:14:49.460 line:15%
So I think I'll fall in the category above 80.

1149
01:14:49.460 --> 01:14:52.216 line:15%
I'll get an overall percentage of 80.

1150
01:14:52.216 --> 01:14:54.073 line:15%
I think I'll get into a good engineering school.

1151
01:14:56.461 --> 01:14:58.961
(engine revs)

1152
01:15:13.590 --> 01:15:14.423 line:15%
Oh God.

1153
01:15:18.241 --> 01:15:19.334
(car hoots)

1154
01:15:19.334 --> 01:15:20.167 line:15%
Internet.

1155
01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:24.060
(engine revs)

1156
01:15:30.591 --> 01:15:32.280
Don't worry.

1157
01:15:32.280 --> 01:15:34.591 line:15%
That's the internet.

1158
01:15:34.591 --> 01:15:35.508
Internet.

1159
01:15:36.928 --> 01:15:37.928 line:15%
Search it.

1160
01:15:39.149 --> 01:15:41.316
(murmurs)

1161
01:15:44.544 --> 01:15:46.195 line:15%
Oh God, what's happening?

1162
01:15:46.195 --> 01:15:48.260
Okay enter the pattern.

1163
01:15:48.260 --> 01:15:51.208 line:15%
Password does not match with the details.

1164
01:15:51.208 --> 01:15:54.875
(speaking foreign language)

1165
01:15:59.917 --> 01:16:02.660 line:15%
Hello Miss Shanti J, it's me Anith speaking.

1166
01:16:02.660 --> 01:16:03.495 line:15%
I've opened up the site, the ISC site

1167
01:16:03.495 --> 01:16:08.495 line:15%
and, it has asked for the center number, plus the password.

1168
01:16:10.838 --> 01:16:12.953 line:15%
You'll have to ask Urmilla Denny because I do not know.

1169
01:16:12.953 --> 01:16:13.953 line:15%
Okay Miss.

1170
01:16:15.014 --> 01:16:17.661 line:15%
Okay, Denny, Denny, yeah.

1171
01:16:17.661 --> 01:16:19.117
(clears throat)
Oh God.

1172
01:16:19.117 --> 01:16:20.599 line:15%
Why is this song coming?

1173
01:16:20.599 --> 01:16:23.682
Maybe there's something wrong with.

1174
01:16:24.855 --> 01:16:27.405 line:15%
The number you are trying to reach is currently--

1175
01:16:27.405 --> 01:16:29.335 line:15%
It's cut off.

1176
01:16:29.335 --> 01:16:32.520
(phone rings)

1177
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:35.286
Hello, Ashwin, okay Ashwin.

1178
01:16:35.286 --> 01:16:37.980 line:15%
Okay, just, a minute Ashwin I'm typing it in,

1179
01:16:37.980 --> 01:16:42.033 line:15%
www.cisce.indiaresults, India results, indiaresults.com.

1180
01:16:51.129 --> 01:16:52.129
Oh, it came.

1181
01:16:53.975 --> 01:16:55.790 line:15%
Oh, God I don't want to see mine.

1182
01:16:55.790 --> 01:16:58.373 line:15%
Its okay Beens, calm down, calm down.

1183
01:17:01.190 --> 01:17:03.290 line:15%
Pass Certificate.

1184
01:17:03.290 --> 01:17:04.832 line:15%
Wow, you did really well!

1185
01:17:04.832 --> 01:17:08.260 line:15%
Oh, God, I got through, I got through!

1186
01:17:08.260 --> 01:17:10.320 line:15%
Great job, great job.
Oh my God.

1187
01:17:10.320 --> 01:17:12.519 line:15%
Let me write down, write down, wait, wait.

1188
01:17:12.519 --> 01:17:13.807
SUPW.

1189
01:17:13.807 --> 01:17:15.528
(cheers)

1190
01:17:15.528 --> 01:17:17.768
Congratulation.

1191
01:17:17.768 --> 01:17:18.649
Wait, wait.

1192
01:17:18.649 --> 01:17:20.975
Oh my God!

1193
01:17:20.975 --> 01:17:22.643
Oh my God.

1194
01:17:27.723 --> 01:17:31.130 line:15%
Okay then, what's Mala's number?

1195
01:17:34.040 --> 01:17:35.343 line:15%
PC, wow.

1196
01:17:36.940 --> 01:17:37.863
Girl!
48 boy.

1197
01:17:39.024 --> 01:17:40.677 line:15%
It's okay, at least she passed.

1198
01:17:40.677 --> 01:17:43.010 line:15%
Her least was 40 in physics.

1199
01:17:43.925 --> 01:17:44.758 line:15%
Vijay's?

1200
01:17:48.320 --> 01:17:52.070 line:15%
80, 95, 76, wow, those are really good marks.

1201
01:17:54.540 --> 01:17:55.640 line:15%
He is first boy, no?

1202
01:17:57.680 --> 01:18:00.237 line:15%
I'm quite nervous, I don't know.

1203
01:18:04.501 --> 01:18:05.334 line:15%
Enter.

1204
01:18:05.334 --> 01:18:07.182 line:15%
Oh God!
Oh God.

1205
01:18:07.182 --> 01:18:08.015
Oh God!

1206
01:18:11.807 --> 01:18:12.640 line:15%
66.

1207
01:18:14.618 --> 01:18:17.285
(ambient music)

1208
01:18:21.551 --> 01:18:23.970
(keyboard clatters)

1209
01:18:23.970 --> 01:18:26.637
(ambient music)

1210
01:18:32.706 --> 01:18:35.539
(children murmur)

1211
01:19:15.003 --> 01:19:18.670
(speaking foreign language)

1212
01:19:30.385 --> 01:19:31.218
A.

1213
01:19:34.476 --> 01:19:38.143
(speaking foreign language)

1214
01:19:40.928 --> 01:19:41.761
L.

1215
01:19:41.761 --> 01:19:42.738
M.

1216
01:19:42.738 --> 01:19:43.571
M.

1217
01:19:43.571 --> 01:19:44.404
R.
R.

1218
01:19:45.658 --> 01:19:48.380
(speaking foreign language)

1219
01:19:48.380 --> 01:19:49.700 line:15%
What I learned from this is,

1220
01:19:49.700 --> 01:19:51.660 line:15%
like there's no substitute for hard work,

1221
01:19:51.660 --> 01:19:54.610 line:15%
and many people say this, but I just took it for granted.

1222
01:19:54.610 --> 01:19:57.353 line:15%
So, this is like a big lesson in my life.

1223
01:19:58.190 --> 01:20:01.220 line:15%
I've learned to like really take care of myself,

1224
01:20:01.220 --> 01:20:05.860 line:15%
be responsible, and also like appreciate people around me,

1225
01:20:05.860 --> 01:20:08.520 line:15%
through my behavior as well through my academics

1226
01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:09.370 line:15%
or whatever I do.

1227
01:20:10.813 --> 01:20:12.803
(students murmur)

1228
01:20:12.803 --> 01:20:14.600 line:15%
I could have scored higher,

1229
01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:19.093 line:15%
but I was happy that I got at least a 62%.

1230
01:20:20.699 --> 01:20:22.249 line:15%
And I'm excited, excited to go,

1231
01:20:24.636 --> 01:20:27.020 line:15%
I wanna know what Bangalore's made of.

1232
01:20:27.020 --> 01:20:30.050 line:15%
Before I was very confused, what do I do?

1233
01:20:30.050 --> 01:20:31.580 line:15%
What do I think about myself?

1234
01:20:31.580 --> 01:20:35.640 line:15%
Like, I'm a mixture of both the standards of education

1235
01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:38.255 line:15%
and virtues that SB has given me

1236
01:20:38.255 --> 01:20:41.909 line:15%
and that what background I belong to.

1237
01:20:41.909 --> 01:20:45.880 line:15%
So sometimes I have this shattered identity problem,

1238
01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:47.550 line:15%
but then I get over it fast,

1239
01:20:47.550 --> 01:20:49.500 line:15%
now I'm getting over it very fast.

1240
01:20:49.500 --> 01:20:53.446 line:15%
I know what I have, I know what I do not have.

1241
01:20:53.446 --> 01:20:56.520 line:15%
So I'm like, this is how I am, I can't help,

1242
01:20:56.520 --> 01:20:58.183 line:15%
and I'm happy with what I am.

1243
01:20:59.069 --> 01:21:00.881
(ambient music)

1244
01:21:00.881 --> 01:21:01.820 line:15%
Dr. George is very idealistic.

1245
01:21:01.820 --> 01:21:05.500 line:15%
Okay, he wanted all 15 of us to become global leaders,

1246
01:21:05.500 --> 01:21:07.930 line:15%
achieve like big things, become prime minister,

1247
01:21:07.930 --> 01:21:10.970 line:15%
become ministers and being in the top of your profession,

1248
01:21:10.970 --> 01:21:12.000 line:15%
stuff like that.

1249
01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:15.510 line:15%
But Mrs. Law, Jude Sir, and all were more practical.

1250
01:21:15.510 --> 01:21:16.960 line:15%
They were like, you can't expect all

1251
01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:18.840 line:15%
to become presidents, and prime minister.

1252
01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:21.140 line:15%
Even if one of you guys become president, that's good

1253
01:21:21.140 --> 01:21:24.300 line:15%
the rest of you all, get good jobs, be happy.

1254
01:21:24.300 --> 01:21:26.560 line:15%
Like Dr. George is not like, be happy,

1255
01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:29.260 line:15%
that's not his like thing in life.

1256
01:21:29.260 --> 01:21:30.350 line:15%
And I don't think that there's anything's wrong,

1257
01:21:30.350 --> 01:21:32.810 line:15%
like not wanting to like become prime minister,

1258
01:21:32.810 --> 01:21:34.863 line:15%
not wanting to become like a big shot.

1259
01:21:35.810 --> 01:21:37.860 line:15%
But a few of us, we feel, yeah,

1260
01:21:37.860 --> 01:21:39.110 line:15%
we need to like become great.

1261
01:21:39.110 --> 01:21:41.680 line:15%
We need to like all the society on our shoulder,

1262
01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:43.620 line:15%
we need to take up the responsibility

1263
01:21:43.620 --> 01:21:45.420 line:15%
to start another 100 Shanti Bhavans.

1264
01:21:45.420 --> 01:21:49.270 line:15%
So I think a few of us have turned out to be like

1265
01:21:49.270 --> 01:21:52.220 line:15%
the exact people you wanted us to be,

1266
01:21:52.220 --> 01:21:55.950 line:15%
and others have turned out to be, like what they want to be.

1267
01:21:55.950 --> 01:21:59.090
(speaking foreign language)

1268
01:21:59.090 --> 01:22:03.610 line:15%
Good morning everybody, welcome to the graduation ceremony

1269
01:22:03.610 --> 01:22:06.907 line:15%
for the Shanti Bhavan class of 2010.

1270
01:22:06.907 --> 01:22:08.851 line:15%
Please give them a hand.

1271
01:22:08.851 --> 01:22:11.851
(audience applauds)

1272
01:22:26.938 --> 01:22:30.021
(gentle piano music)

1273
01:22:32.667 --> 01:22:37.667
♪ This is a precious moment, we've only just began-- ♪

1274
01:22:39.472 --> 01:22:40.670
The Shanti Bhavan children

1275
01:22:40.670 --> 01:22:42.420
have taught me something invaluable

1276
01:22:44.410 --> 01:22:49.410
a lesson that must be engraved on the minds of everyone.

1277
01:22:49.631 --> 01:22:51.265
(audience applauds)

1278
01:22:51.265 --> 01:22:55.390
It's an idea, that given the right opportunities,

1279
01:22:55.390 --> 01:22:59.520
all children, regardless of their background,

1280
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:02.443
can indeed realize their full potential.

1281
01:23:05.138 --> 01:23:08.750
It is up to the rest of us to make this happen.

1282
01:23:10.380 --> 01:23:14.860
Have you heard of names like Anith, Pushpar, Stella, Mani,

1283
01:23:17.558 --> 01:23:22.558
Sindhu, Thomas, Mala, Vijay, Manimala, Prakash, Yina, Renee,

1284
01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:29.093
Sheeba, and Rajini?

1285
01:23:31.660 --> 01:23:33.453
They're the new stars born today.

1286
01:23:35.490 --> 01:23:38.843
If you haven't heard of them so far, you will now.

1287
01:23:40.300 --> 01:23:43.810
And please get to know them, and more importantly,

1288
01:23:45.710 --> 01:23:48.551
remember them, and keep them in your hearts.

1289
01:23:48.551 --> 01:23:51.218
(ambient music)

1290
01:24:04.468 --> 01:24:07.301
(students murmur)

1291
01:24:13.077 --> 01:24:13.910 line:15%
Now I'm a great man.

1292
01:24:13.910 --> 01:24:15.597 line:15%
One day if he become a rich man,

1293
01:24:15.597 --> 01:24:19.097 line:15%
you can say, I already have his signature.

1294
01:24:20.023 --> 01:24:21.290
(laughs gently)

1295
01:24:21.290 --> 01:24:23.957
(ambient music)

1296
01:25:03.546 --> 01:25:04.978
Bye, bye.

1297
01:25:04.978 --> 01:25:06.061
Bye Sheeba.

1298
01:25:07.681 --> 01:25:08.514
Kish.

1299
01:25:11.194 --> 01:25:13.944
(engine revving)

1300
01:25:18.472 --> 01:25:19.305
Bye.

1301
01:25:21.975 --> 01:25:24.642
(upbeat music)

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