Class Assignment 12-7-10

         I have learned a lot about India in our new unit.  Like India has the second largest population of people in the world with 1,173,108,018 people as of July 2010.  The percentage Indian population that lives below the poverty line ranges from 37.2 percent to 77 percent of the people.  Dharavi is one of the large slums in Mumbai, India and also one of the largest slums in the world.  It has a population of around 1 million people.  In the world one in every six people live in a slum.  So that means that a little over a billion people live in slums.  A slum or a shanty town is a large community where the houses are made out of scrap metal and trash.  Around fifteen people and an uncounted number of mice share around three hundred square feet of floor. 

Then there is around one bathroom for around every thousand people in Dharavi.  So the two boys in the movie (Slumdog Millionaire) could make some money by standing outside of one of the bathrooms and have people pay to use the bathroom.  They could make a bit off of that and other things.  Like in the move he also sold an autographed photo of Amitabh Bachchan to someone.  What life was like in a slum was portrayed accurately because it was actually filmed in Dharavi, India.  The movie showed how many of the people lived.  Their homes were made out of scrap metal, cloth, and things like that.  The bathrooms dumped right into the river their main water source.  The water is unclean, has trash in it, waste, and many other things that make it unclean.  So because of that the water was not very clean for drinking, bathing, and cooking with.

          Bollywood is one of India’s largest filming industries.  Bollywood is also one of the largest filming industries in the world.  It is a lot like Hollywood but much larger and it is also in India.  The "B" that is in Bollywood is from the city's former name, Bombay witch was now changed to Mumbai. They make more than twice as many films as Hollywood does in one year. Bollywood makes around one thousand movies in a single year. 

          I have learned so much about India. I can’t wait till we get to see more of the movie (Slumdog Millionaire).  I also can’t wait see how the movie will end, although it probable take a few more classes to finish watching the move.  I hope that we will finish it by the end of the week. I have enjoyed learning about India because I have never studied anything about it before.