prime minister many see the need to boon as part of a long ruling corrupt stylishly and the leader of lebanon's hezbollah group is insisting the next government must include all political factions protesters continue to block roads and hold rallies in beirut and elsewhere politicians have been unable to form a new government since demonstrations forced prime minister saad hariri and his caliber to resign. violent protests have hit the us and northeast india after parliament approved a controversial citizenship law it offers a path to citizenship for 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries but it excludes muslims and those are the headlines coming up next it's super 31. join me many often as i put it up front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera.

be homes in northern india beautiful impoverished

overwhelmingly rural. life expectancy is the newest in india only half the population can read and write. people who flee the hardship of the countryside for opportunity in the capital. but know a city of 3000000 is a magnet for those seeking to escape the limitations of that. is the story of the soup with a tease. these young people are almost all backgrounds what they also share is a talent for mathematics today they're sitting the 1st round of an exam that could change the entire course of their lives. 4000 have made their way here from

all over bihar only 200 will go through to the 2nd round they're competing to get into an elite class known as the super 30 its creator is a noncom on. this record i really think it is mcbride. worth me by this because. he's a mathematician who set up the soup with 30 to help gifted children who come in from poor families. 10 jobs they're going to but. all toward get bored but if their brains are. those who get into soup with the will be coached for another more grueling ordeal the entrance exam for the indian institutes of technology or i i.t.

it's india's most prestigious university the applicants for soup with the know that if they do make it to iowa they'll be set up for life. this 7 were intended to produce an elite of engineers and technologists today many of the computer science graduates end up as silicon valley software millionaire. danny i.i. t's head of computer science. the people who. see yours of major corporations. banking finance. the most important of the tick is the fact that they can handle stress what i did you question stands for is essential the very high quality instruction tremendous demands being made on stored in terms of directivity product activity competition

and deadlines days of extraordinary every year the. $5000.00 students from all over india 50 or 60 candidates compete for each of the coveted places against this anon kumar's success rate is amazing in $2628.00 of his super 30 got into i.t. not many are goes in bihar then education is still seen as less important than boys so it was in their thinking we did because going on to buy usually a car not a bit plus one. would you buy really by making it the war in the name of love. me or you will give me a bicycle man. outside the school anxious relatives wait for the 3 hour exam to finish.

at the end of the day 4000 exam papers are collected from marking most of the candidates will fail only one in 20 go through to the 2nd round. incredibly the soup with 30 exam scripts are taken away under guard. 5 weeks later round 2 of the entrance exam the super 30 will be chosen from these 200 candidates. made it through. a paper of the caliber of congress ok but. the general who could manage to lower.

our. knowledge coming in 2nd 3rd in the subject young. especially. has to give a cheerful joy nicest like because we've. all. been in the past because of. the stuff he's. successful at a lot of. them. as brother is the manager of soup with the competition for the school is so intense that the candidates bring photo i.d.'s imposters have been known to sit the exam. for several months you're going to be working with very few people knew there was a. good world of evil than. if you were all of the.

best. if even number but overall they can do well no. finalist when i. hear you do so in. tuning to get a 1000000 in one year. to me. thank you. i'll be reading. these did you not the last word i ask you i mean do i have to keep that you're not an. anon in the indian capital. some of last year's super 30 and now at.

43 days of. that should be revealed to. be reported worth. although ha. ha. if you don't know me i'm pretty dumb or good. at the reality of. don't get me getting. back in what i like he has almost legendary status some coaching schools even

advertise their students rankings in the entrance exams and everyone's cashing in except. because the students who make it into super 30 they nothing for their tuition. it's wholly subsidized by other projects. of mathematics. at the. song. ever. even in. mathematics or hotham i found. out that. c b this is what i'm talking america here. though but. i'm going to get. all the cuts go. through it from my notes are all i

demand is high and the clauses are huge 700 or more yet unknown so are nuns an unwelcome competitor for some of the other schools. of free of course. but the. fact that. it's clearly. clear that they were home get there at the booth tomkinson but. for. that or he m. gov had to up the harder it is school other odd hours it's all going to go it's going to fall going to go scot buckboard i like what the theatre. and non kumar has received so many death threats that these days he never goes anywhere without his bodyguards. such is the reality of life in bihar.

the village of deal clearly 2 hours drive from but now even today the house countryside is home to 9 tenths of its people of such seeing has lived here all his life mark on how mattered in the discipline he said. about us i behave as a. the judge. or him again later so . if. you. bought out her son is immaterial. the family is divided such as here with his mother his wife lives mostly in her own village

her family's better off. often struggles to survive but is going to hear what they are the car you have got 100001 100 that i had. a party. cut the mower that i had. kind of been made to. find out how to get here and i got out. but such interest circumstances could soon improve he's hopes are invested in his son. he's been studying in patna and has just been accepted for super 30. so i think you.

are right. and if you. like most village children i look spent his entire life speaking hindi since moving to but he's had to study in english. when they really want to. learn. going you know doc appears set up here to say. about now here they are gone. these days and only rarely goes home his route to the future leads away from the village. colleague of his other

though because you can begin to think. of you look back the way he. meant. there to be. i didn't know him better which was a couple 100 a year make it look but i. could tell you that i had. to cover the. hindus in bihar still live in a hierarchy of costs many have the jobs traditionally associated with their caste like the doobies or washing men who do partners laundry there among the lowest groups known as the shed you would costs. i'm afraid that this image may at the heart that the commandment. hero. brought he

you need then years to get pregnant penitently but birth is no longer destiny even in bihar education is often the key this family is still poor but they're on the way up. is the youngest of 3 sons like look he's taken on nuns classes and has been accepted for soup with the even so it's not easy madam but evidence is . made by teams he tells him about he was keeping them in coming at the right time up there in the name. though it was but investment where. possible name was like there the family had to borrow money even to pay the low fees of the ram a new john school back turned out to get. a year. out

of the house. today the students are making their way to the realm a new john school those coming from remote villages may have to travel for days joe this is journey is only across patna but it will take him into a different world. than america 13 i think yasser but it did you know out of that and then i allege. that i've been there in my career here you know. the rooms are basic but cost the boys nothing this is where jo tissue will spend much of the next 7 months. like the accommodation food is also free for the soup with the. each has 2 different boxes the typically indian containers in which

they'll be given their meals. in iraq now put in a bottle with. our regular military. test. 'd in basra who writes the real. name for the. this. year. the argument. by. the family back. to sheila meanwhile has been waitlisted for super 30 she didn't do quite well enough in the 2nd exam. or depressed person it was if there's a. limit here. he will.

she stay king on classes and still hopes to get it if she fails this may be the end of her education. god young of the proudest blood is continually. bihar's a deeply conservative society it isn't easy to change people's attitudes. the kumar brothers also want to help those coming from the shed your casts and will even discriminate in their favor.

as a boy a nun was a mathematical protege he was accepted for a ph d. at cambridge but couldn't afford to study in england he set up the rama new john school and then super 30 to give other gifted children a better chance. up my carrier mathematics me. both he. home america i'm originally. your main reason.

my. theory. is. that. there is no war to describe the place of mathematics it is filling. effect of the knock you off roofs. i have. but enough about them with. just. today is republic day a major event in india's national calendar. i'll

buy on and it's the 2nd most senior police officer in bihar he's on his way to the parade ground here in. every state. but in the last. 7 important part of the country which includes when he's my. little girl was the larger the war the budget or that it was was the target. displays show off aspects of life in bihar. today is also the festival of saraswati the hindu goddess of learning as a teacher ananth kumar has come to pay his respects. was

was. it's a public holiday so all india schools are closed except there are new john school where it's a day like any other the parades now over and switched his role as well as his uniform because this top cop spends his free time teaching physics to the super that. strengths have to be sustained weaknesses have to be identified and string them up by on and join the school shortly after it was founded by our non kumar and i want to join the school or. he did it.

to make. their best about their own. but. their. day job makes him responsible for 90000 policemen he comes from one of the ha's best known upper caste families they have a long tradition of public service i wanted to give back. and that's the main thing and all my activities hovered around back pain. i worked so much. i have no problems about. not having and enough in life. i've had enough i'm sad to say. i could have given back only things which i have.

this is the best that i had. a non background is very different he still lives in the rough part of town where he grew up he has a nice house but he's protected by gates a dog and his bodyguards with good reason given the power of the. kidnappings to take place. at times due to the seasons somewhat peculiar to this season. it does take place it does happen you get. security concerns. in cameroons with. the. plastic is everywhere.

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