Indian School Series on Link TV |
What's it like to grow up in a country with the largest child labor force in the world, an ancient caste system and a film industry bigger than Hollywood? Over 10 episodes INDIAN SCHOOL follows the highs and lows of the students and teachers at Kalmadi Shamrao High School and Rewachand Bhojwani Academy in Pune - near Mumbai, one of the world’s fastest growing cities.
This fast-paced, observational documentary takes us, over the course of a school year, into the world of India’s ‘rising generation’. The series gets inside the skin of India’s middle classes, exploring their dreams and anxieties in a world that seems to be changing every day. |
 | In this first episode of Indian School, 14 year-old Ashutosh is attending his eighth new school, following his father's engineering job around the world, and struggling to fit in. | |
 | In this episode, Bavajee, the IT teacher at Bhojwani and school guru, is able to calm even the most aggressive pupil with meditation. But this week he faces a tough challenge with Rahul, who is winding up everyone around him. | |
 | In this episode, Pune, one of the Information Technology Centers of India, is making the city of four million people grow exponentially. See the damage this growth is having from two perspectives within the school. | |
 | In this episode of Indian School, Prem and Sahill, two of Kalmadi's brightest pupils, battle it out to be the top English language debater in town. | |
 | In this episode, the popular girl at Kalmadi senior college has to spend to her 17th birthday grounded instead out out celebrating. | |
 | In this episode, follow children and teachers from two communities prepare for the Hindu festival of Divali, and the Muslim festival of Eid. Also, watch one girl go from materialism to minimalism in the countryside. | |
 | In this episode, caste riots have been sweeping the city. Mrs. Kapur doesn't want her privileged pupils at Bhojwani Academy to live in a "caste bubble", so she tackles the issues head on in the classroom. | |
 | In this episode, see the juxtaposition of Eastern and Western dance styles through the complex moves and debate of Bhojwani Academy dance students. | |
 | In this episode of Indian School poor children play "gulley cricket" in the slums, hoping that, one day, they might get a place at the prestigious Pune Club. | |
 | In this final episode of Indian School, we follow some of the children we have seen earlier in the series as they take on some extremely high-pressured exams. |
March, the end of the school year and, for some pupils, the toughest time of all. We follow some of the children we have seen earlier in the series as they take on some extremely high-pressured exams. Their parents haven’t been forking out school fees for them to fail now, so they’ve been having extra tuition and staying up late to get the best possible marks that could decide their futures.
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