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00:00This year, the country of over 1.3 billion people is celebrating 70 years of independence.
00:14I'm going to travel 5,000 miles to some of the more remote and unexpected corners of
00:19this vast nation.
00:21What is this?
00:24From the desert camels of Rajasthan, to the transsexuals of Calcutta, sometimes I shall
00:37be walking in my family's footsteps, glimpsing the opulent splendor of India's royal past.
00:47Mirrors on the ceiling in case I wanted to look at myself.
00:51I'll encounter the suffering endured by India's untouchables.
00:55They poured kerosene on his body and just burnt him alive.
00:59Gatecrash a Hindu housewarming, and experience the kaleidoscope of contradiction that makes
01:08modern India so captivating.
01:10Lovely.
01:11Oh my gosh.
01:12Look at that colour.
01:13You are very, very kind.
01:14Thank you, sir.
01:15Welcome to India.
01:16The first of my three journeys through this vast subcontinent will take me 1,500 miles.
01:40From the very south, through the mountains of the Western Ghats, to the Islamic city
01:45of Hyderabad, the former imperial capital Calcutta, and ending in the foothills of the
01:51Himalayas in Sikkim, where 90 years ago my grandfather, Colonel Leslie Ware, was stationed.