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tv   Super 30 2018 Ep 1  Al Jazeera  December 16, 2019 6:32am-7:01am +03

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to vote in the next few days to impeach the president which would set up a trial in the senate the u.n. secretary general has described a climate change summit in madrid as a lost opportunity after delegates failed to agree on several contentious issues they did agree on motions calling for greater ambition and cutting greenhouse gases botched talks on global carbon markets have been postponed until next year's meeting in glasgow now a poll designed to gauge the mood of people in chile has shown an overwhelming majority want a new constitution or months of protests over rising living costs and inequality problems at the ballot about half of the votes still need to be counted but so far 85 percent of people want to hold a referendum on the constitution is due to take place next year well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us super 30 is coming up next thank you very much one. tax cuts for big business is.
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be homes in northern india beautiful impoverished still overwhelmingly rural. life expectancy is the newest in india only half the population can read and write. people flee the hardship of the countryside for opportunity in the capital. a city of $3000000.00 is a magnet for those seeking to escape the limitations of that. this is the story of the soup but. these people are almost all backgrounds what they share is
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a talent for mathematics today they're sitting the 1st round of an exam that could change the entire course of their lives. for 1000 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. mcbride. wordsmith but this is because. he's a mathematician who stepped up the super 30 to help gifted children who come in from. boston. but.
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all toward get bored but if their brains. 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 i.n.t.'s were intended to produce an elite of engineers and technologists today many of the computer science graduates end up as silicon valley software millionaires danny i.i. t's head of computer science. the people who. see yours of major corporations banking finance telecom the
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most important of the tick is the fact that they can handle stress what i did your question stands for is essential in the very high quality instruction tremendous demands being made on stored and in terms of the rector with the product activity competition and deadlines. days of extraordinary every year the i i t's admit about $5000.00 students from all over india 50 or 60 candidates compete for each of the coveted places against this anon kumah success rate is amazing in 2628 of his super 30 got into i i t not many are go in bihar then education is still seen as less important than boys. they're going with it because going on the boys should be a guy not a bit plus one father god commanded by madonna. really by negative the war on women
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love. me i do give me a bus one 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 taken away under god. 5 weeks later round 2 of the entrance exam the super 30 will be chosen from these 200 candidates. made it through.
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a paper of the caliber of congress ok but. the general who could that took now was forged. when knowledge coming in for the subject young. especially how. to give a cheerful because we're. all here. because of. the stuff he's. successful at a lot of. the. brother is the manager of super. competition for the school is so intense that the candidates bring photo i.d.'s imposters have been known to sit the exam.
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for several months you're going to be working with people in here with a. good world of legal the. law or. if even number. one law. finalist with. your income could be a problem here. for. tuning to give. me. thank you. now nanny do you. i have been reading.
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these are you not the last word i ask you i mean do i have to keep that you cannot do anything. in the indian capital. some of last year and now at. 40. days of. all. that should be revealed to. me i read the report i got. out of here but. although ha. ha's. for you. if you don't know me i'm pretty dumb or google i know. the reality of. don't get me getting.
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back in what i like 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 day nothing for their tuition. it's wholly subsidized by other project. school of mathematics. that. the. ever. even in. mathematics or hotham f one can get.
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up to. see b. this is what i'm talking america here. the whole. the whole i'm going to get. all cut it's got to do it for my notes are all i demand is high and the clauses are huge 700 or more yet the fees. are nuns an unwelcome competitor for some of the other schools. of free of course. but the. fact that. it's clearly. clear that there were palm get there at the booth tomkinson but. for. all he ever got her look 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.
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a nun 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 such thing has lived here all his life mark on how mattered in the discipline he said. about us i've been here but without a. the judge did you or him a gun matter so. if.
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you. had bought out her son's body right 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 to think i'm here to work out a car you have 100100 that i had i had a. party. so i cut them out of that i. can't have been a maid had to. find out how to get here and i got out. but said gender is circumstances could soon improve his hopes are invested in his son. he's been studying in patna and has just been accepted for super 30.
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and. like most village children and looks spent his entire life speaking hindi since moving to but he's had to study in english. in the ready . within the. last. long. going you know doc appears at rb at the cinema. now here they are gone.
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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. managed. to be told. i didn't know him better which was a couple 100 a year make it look but i. could tell you that i had. covered the. hindus in bihar still live in our hierarchy of costs many have the jobs traditionally associated with their caste like the doobies or washroom and who do
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partners laundry there among the lowest groups known as the shed you would costs. and strange at this image may at the hour that to commemorate the passing though i didn't like. what he any day nears think about where mcluckie people are painted 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 a nun's classes and has been accepted for soup with the even so it's not easy whatever to melissa's 33 years in are made by teams he tells him about he was keeper to make home income in whatever time of the indian name though it was but investment where there. was
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a command bit and salary similar possible levels like there. the family had to borrow money even to pay the low fees of the ram a new john school. a year. early. today the students are making their way to the rama 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 american thought and i think yasser going to dinner out in london then i like to have. that happen early in my career here you know. the rooms are basic but cost the boys nothing this is where joe tish will spend
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much of the next 7 months. like the accommodation food is also free for the super 30 each has to tiffin boxes the typically indian containers in which they'll be given them meals. really the. best. life will be. for the year. this. argument. by. moving back.
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to sheila meanwhile has been waitlisted for super 30 she didn't do quite well enough in the 2nd exam. or depressed. he will if. she's taking on classes and still hopes to get in if she fails this may be the end of her education. and. love of god young the proudest is continually. bihar's the deeply conservative society it isn't easy to change people's attitudes .
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the kumar brothers also want to help those coming from the shed your casts and will even discriminate in their favor. if they really. are. as a boy and i 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 career go mathematics may pursue.
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both he. and his. home america am original. human region. my. theory. is. that. there is no war to describe the place of mathematics it is filling. effect of the not care. i have. he did he did he did it if your buddy about them with.
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just. today is republic day a major event in india's national calendar. i'll buy on and is the 2nd most senior police officer in bihar he's on his way to the parade ground here in. every state we have. set in one year but in the last. 7 important to the country which includes when he's my. little girl was the larger the old the i'd rather different attitude but he was cut out mobile displays show off aspects of life in bihar and.
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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's 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 . strengths have to be sustained weaknesses have to be identified and sting than. joined the school shortly after it was founded by annan kumar and i want to join a school or. he
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did it. to make. 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.
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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 some are due to janus friis and somewhat peculiar to this region. it does take place it does happen you get. security concerns.
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