Mumbai: 5 essential indian facts, Dharavi, and Bollywood

1.) Kaun Banega Crorepati is a game show that is like 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' and is really popular in India but has not been seen all over the world on television yet.

2.) Mumbai- 5 Essential Indian Facts:

• formally known as Bombay
• the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra
• virtually never sleeps
• biggest metropolis of India
• addresses over 15 million Mumbaikars, including the well-heeled industrialists, ravishing celebrities and eminent artists

3.) Dharavi:

• Asia's biggest slum in the world
• home to more than 1 million people
• one unending stretch of narrow dirty lanes, open sewers and cramped huts
• 18,000 per acre
• house rents are among the highest in the world

4.) A shantytown is a slum settlement of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials.  As of 2005, one billion people live in shanty towns.

5.) Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film star in the early 1970's.  Bachchan trashed the movie Slumdog Millionaire by writing on his webite: "projects India as [a] Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots,"

6.) Bollywood:

• Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai
• incorrectly used towards the whole Indian cinema
• largest film producers in India

7.) In American dollars, 250,000 rupees is 45.909 dollars.





Sites Used:

• http://www.mumbainet.com/
• http://www.mumbai.org.uk/
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/dharavi_slum/html/dharavi_slum_intro.stm
• http://news.oneindia.in/2010/10/13/kaun-banega-crorepati-4-conquers-internet-as-well.html
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000821/bio
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4249606/Slumdog-Millionaire-writer-puzzled-by-Amitabh-Bachchan-attack.html

10 Questions About India

1. India's population is 1.21 billion.       ----- CIA Factbook
2. The total fertility rate in India is 2.65 children born/woman.      -----CIA Factbook
3. The percentage of the Indian population lives below the poverty line is 25%.      ----CIA Factbook
4. Two terrorist attacks on India: a) Mumbai terrorists attacks from Pakistan to India        b) Ten Pakistan-based terrorists attacked a busy train station, two five-star hotels, Nariman House and other places in Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2008           ------ New York Times
5. India's rank in the world by poverty is 119th out of 169 countries.        -----New York Times
6. Monsoon's in India: The Ukai Dam has a water permit level of 350 and once it gets past that the engineers open the gates to let the water flood upstream to the city and in August it killed at least 120 people and more than 4000 animals           ----- New York Times
7. Some of the problems India has getting clean water to people are lacking basic sewage and water disposal.        ----New York Times
8. The literacy rate is 61%.         ------CIA Factbook
9. Major religions in India are Hindu (80.5%), Muslim (13.4%), Christian (2.3%), Sikh (1.9%), unspecified(0.1%).         -----CIA Factbook
10. India achieved their independence on August 15, 1947 from the UK.        -------CIA Factbook

11/23 Class: China and India

• China has 1.35 billion people
• India has 1.21 billion
• 40% (every two in five people) live in these two contries
• Each of their population is bigger than Africa, Europe, and the entire western hemisphere!
• China's life expectancy is 73 years
• India's life expectancy is 64 years
• China has more people moving into urban areas
• India is staying rural
• They are getting illegal immigrants and dont want them

11/19 Class

We presented our coffee presentation to the small groups.  We will finish presenting to the other groups in the next class.

Part 1 Coffee work link is here.

Part 2  Coffee Presentation link is here

11/18 Class

No class today.  Freshman Retreat.

11/17 Class

School closed today for funeral services.

Thoughts and prayers.

11/16 Class

We worked on the coffee project

11/12 Class

We worked in groups on our projects.

11/11 Class

New group project on coffee assigned to groups.

Relationship Coffee Fair Trade Case Study - 11/9 and 11/10

SOME NOTES

• coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world
• making coffee is a very intensive job and takes a long time
• people have to worry about the crop because it helps support and supply for the family
• agricultural equal of a sweatshop
• earns barley enough to survive and stay alive

TERMS

• Fair trade coffee- coffee that is purchased directly from the growers for a higher price than standard coffee
• Certified organic coffee-grown by farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality
• Sustainable- able to be sustained; able to be sustained for an indefinite  period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable
• Commodity- a good for which there is demand for
• Roasters- at high temperature roast the green coffee beans to dark color and make more flavor

QUESTIONS

• Who is the biggest coffee importing country?  The United States
• How does coffee get from the field to the breakfast table?  Coffee beans are hand picked from trees and are actually seeds inside berries.  The outside cover is removed by processing, and beans are dried in sun.  Beans are sorted, and packed.  Coffee is sold and shipped.
• Where does the United States grow their coffee?  Hawaii
• Who is the biggest coffee exporter?  Brazil
• Who is the biggest consumers of coffee?  Norway

WEBSITES USED

• http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/foo_cof_con-food-coffee-consumption
• http://dictionary.weather.net/dictionary/commodity
• http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-is-the-Coffee-Made-71945.shtml
• http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/
• http://www.coffeeresearch.org/politics/fairtrade.htm
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Where-Does-Coffee-Come-From?-From-Bean-to-Cup!&id=847369

11/5 Class

Today was our last day to work on the newspaper.  By the end of the class we had to send it by e-mail.  A lot of people had trouble saving it from publisher to a PDF file then attaching it to an email.  It had to be sent even if it was not completed.

Sudan Fights for Independence

·         Northern Sudan was taken by Egypt in 1821

·         Southern Sudan by the British in 1877

·         Mahdists were defeated in 1898 from the revolt started by the Muslim leader

·         Has experienced little relief from civil war between the Arab, Islamic north and African south.

http://africanhistory.about.com/b/2008/01/01/1-january-1956-sudan-gains-independence-from-britishegyptian-rule.htm

·         Sudan achieved independence on January 1, 1956

·         separatist Southerners began an initially low-intensity civil war aimed at establishing an independent South

·         the war lasted from 1955 to 1972

·         southern region experienced civil strife

·         origins of the civil war in the south date back to the 1950s

·         late 1960s, the war had resulted in the deaths of about 500,000 people

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan-civil-war1.htm

·         January 9, Sudanese are to vote on the future of the country's unity

·         Southern= widely expected to vote for separation from the mainly Arab and Muslim north.

·         most say they feel discriminated against and marginalized by their Muslim-Arab compatriots

·         "They never, never give any rights for non-Muslims and they never, never value any non-Muslim to be a human being like them. They call you names, they put you in [a] very difficult categories and you get yourself, you are very, very different from them. So it is hard to stay with such a people."

·         "The south never benefitted from the unity,"

·         results of the referendum might lead to renewed violence between north and south

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/South-Sudanese-Want-Independence-From-North-104785179.html