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tv   Super 30 2018 Ep 1  Al Jazeera  August 16, 2020 5:32am-6:00am +03

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it's true slimly the official residence of israel's prime minister calling on him to resign but just as angry at benjamin netanyahu is handling of the pandemic and his own going trial for corruption the palestinian ambassador to the u.a.e. has been recalled following the gulf states decision to normalize relations with israel palestinian leaders denounced the u.s. brokered agreement as a stab in the back to their cause. francis asked the afghan government snorts to release taliban prisoners convicted of killing french citizens hundreds of fighters and you to be released as a precondition for talks between the afghan government and the taliban and the japanese ship that plowed into a coral reef off the coast of the richest split apart spilling more oil resources to clear than in an environmental emergency to what's being called the island's worst ecological disaster. and those are the headlines these continue say on al-jazeera of the super 30 thanks to. in late joe biden and donald trump will
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finally become the official presidential candidate but the own going coronavirus pandemic sees the democratic national convention going virtual and the republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration of the fall of the u.s. conventions on al-jazeera.
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the homes in northern india beautiful impoverished overwhelmingly rural. life expectancy is the lowest 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. this is the story of this. super 30.
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people are almost all backgrounds what they 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. 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 is. this record. is my project worth the secret because. he's a mathematician who set up the super 30 to help gifted children who come in from poor families. but. the
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heene had. a hear. of. all toward their book 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.
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see yours of major corporations banking finance telecom the 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 in terms of the rector to product activity competition and deadlines. days are extraordinary everywhere the mit about $5000.00 students from all over india 50 or 60 candidates compete for each of the coveted places against this and none kumah success rate is amazing in 2628 of his super 30 got into i.r.t. not many are go in bihar then education is still seen as less important than boys. because on the. plus one fathers who got.
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really benefited the war on women love. me i do. 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 for mocking most of the candidates will say only one in 20 through to the 2nd round. incredibly stupid exam scripts taken away under. 5 weeks later round 2 of the entrance exam the super 30 will be chosen from
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these 200 candidates. made it through. a paper. i can but. the general who could pick lower for. coming in 4th and 5th in the subject. has to go but you're just making. all. the fuss because here. at. the start this is just. a lot of. the. brother is the manager of soup with the competition for the school is so intense
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that the candidates bring photo i.d.'s imposters have been known to sit the exam. will of course everybody here is going to be working with. me here and there with a. we're going to meet with the. if you will all of you don't wonder. if even to put all. this stuff. it will find a list with. your income could be a problem here. to get a 1000000 when he entered my room for me. when i need them thank you. and
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they do speak. i have been reading. these are you not lost one must believe i am cute i mean do i have feet deep down you cannot do anything for. a nun in the indian capital. some of last year's super and now at. all. that should be revealed a. lot of. all the ha. ha ha. so. if you know me i'm pretty dumb or google it or not. the reality is.
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that it might. be dick. has almost. 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 the ramanujan school of mathematics. that. we. have got. some 5 to 7. mathematics or how can we have fun.
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c b this is what i am like america here. but. i'm going to get. all it's going to do it for mind of. demand is high and the classes are huge 700 or more yet unknown so are nuns an unwelcome competitor for some of the other schools. of the of course. but the. fact that. it cleared. or he ever had to up the harder it is no other obviously fall.
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is going to fall going to go scott. guthrie or. unknown 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 cali 2 hours drive from but now even today the harsh countryside is home to 9 tenths of its people such as seeing has lived here all his life mark on her marriage in the supply line he said. about us i've been able to get out as a. dear gentleman. or him again later so
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. you get up with abo heard about her son is in the tent but abroad. 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 got to have found her not that i had. a party. to. talk of the matter that i. can't have been about milliken and look i've made the oh it's all about how about they don't have to find out how to get here and i got out. but said younger circumstances could soon improve his hopes are invested in his son look he's been
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studying in patna and has just been accepted for super 30. both of us advance. something. like most village children i look spent his entire life speaking hindi since moving to but he's had to study in english in the ready one as a within the. last. long you're going to duck appears at rb at the center of their case. now here they are
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gaza. these days and only rarely goes home his road to the future leads away from the village. colleague of his other though because you can so i'm going to. have you look back the way he. meant nothing. there to be told. i didn't know him better which was a couple 100 a year make it work but i had to because i'm ahead i mean. that i had them in what i can cover the. hindus in bihar still live in
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a hierarchy of costs many have the jobs traditionally associated with their caste like the doobies or washing men who do partners laundry they're among the lowest groups known as the shed you will costs. and strange at this image may at the heart that they commemorate the passing hero and i didn't like. what he any dentist in the boat people opinion 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 time of the 33 years in our may but gives it as much about he was keeping him a home in coming whatever time up there in the name though it was but investment where
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there. was no 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. ago. today the students are making their way to the ramanujan 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 13 i think yasser. arafat and then i. have. a minute here you know.
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the rooms are basic but cost the boys nothing this is where joe to spend much of the next 7 months. like the accommodation food is also free for the super 30 each has 2 different boxes the typically indian containers in which they'll be given them meals. really the. best. 'd will be. they will. take. this team year.
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by year hafiz full fall into place on the family that. sushil a meanwhile has been waitlisted for super 30. she didn't do quite well enough in the 2nd example. to me the more depressed person it was if there's a. limit to. the will. she staking on classes and still hopes to get in if she fails this may be the end of her education. as a brother in their religion of love of god young of the proudest blood is continually . bihar's a 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 you'll castes and will even discriminate in their favor. if. you look with. job to see better. known. as a boy 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 nugent school and then super 30 to give other gifted children
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a better chance. my career goal mathematics me. he says just. bought a whole. hall mccambridge and he job iowa you mean region. he bought them he had. my a he put a hog he did the. east is. now bookie here he bought the charm the whole but. there is no words to describe the pleas of mathematics it is feeling. up the effect of knock you off roofs. going. to have.
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your buddy up about them with. just. today is republic day a major event in india's national calendar. she. is 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. country which includes when he's my. little girl was the larger the old the i'd rather different attitude it was the gutter mobile
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displays show off aspects of life in bihar and. today is also the festival of saraswati the hindu goddess of learning as a teacher ananth kumar has come to pay his respects. was. it's a public holiday so all india's schools are closed except that i'm a 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 string them up by an unjoin the school shortly after it
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was founded by an uncommon or around one of them in school or. he did it. to make. their best. but. there are. billions day job makes him responsible for 90000 policeman he comes from one of b. hawes 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 of my activities hover around back pain. i worked so much.
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i have no problems about. not having had 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 the seasons somewhat peculiar to this season. it does take place it does happen you get.
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