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India - Change and challenge for a new superpower

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comparing GDP UK and India- or simply go to the stats section of the Atlas

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comparing GDP UK and India- or simply go to the stats section of the Atlas

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Bollywood- Tollywood

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It is rush hour on Monday morning in Hyderabad, but the city's usual deafening soundtrack of revving engines and blaring horns is absent. The only noise comes from a woman gently sweeping the veranda of one of the large, pastel-coloured mansions nearby. The silence is even more disconcerting when you see the airport near the end of the street, and, just beyond that, a railway station. New York's Statue of Liberty is a short walk away, as is the splendour of the ancient city of Mahishmati. In fact, Mahishmati is the first place here where I encounter any real noise - the blue special effects screens around the fibreglass throne area are rather flimsy, and a buzz from power tools carries from the adjoining parking lot, where workers are building a pirate ship.

We are in Ramoji Film City, the largest film studio in the world and the beating heart of Tollywood, India's Telugu-language film industry. And although Ramoji is technically part of Hyderabad, in reality - with its (real) hotels, workshops, soundstages, gardens, post office, banks and restaurants - it is a metropolis in and of itself.

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Guardian Cities is exploring these newcomers at a crucial period in their development: from car-centric Tehran to the harsh inequalities of Luanda; from the film industry of Hyderabad to the demolition of historic buildings in Ho Chi Minh City.

We'll also be in Chengdu, Dar es Salaam, Nanjing, Ahmedabad, Surat, Baghdad, Kuala Lumpur, Xi'an, Seoul, Wuhan and London.

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It is not Hyderabad's only "city within a city". To many outside India, the southern Indian metropolis is best known for Hitech City - the country's own purpose-built Silicon Valley. Nearby is Genome Valley, which boasts manufacturing and R&D arms of some of the biotech sector's biggest names.

Every film studio is a little like a small town, but Hyderabad's Ramoji Film City dwarfs them all

Hyderabad owes much of its rapid growth to the jobs created for these companies, both directly and from the construction boom resulting from the need for offices, homes and infrastructure to accommodate the influx of labour. Its expansion has seen it swallow up its twin city of Secunderabad to become one sprawling metropolis.

Sets at Ramoji Film City including a pirate ship being constructed for a forthcoming feature. Photographs: Ravi Giragani/the Guardian

The latest UN projections forecast that Hyderabad will reach megacity status - having a population over 10 million - by 2020, with 14.1 million residents by 2035. But when you are caught in the inevitable snarl of the city's legendarily bad traffic and surrounded on all sides by construction projects, it is hard not to agree with locals who say that, thanks to unofficial migrant workers, the 10 million population point has long since been passed.

ndia has the largest film industry in the world, producing 1,903 films in 2016 compared with 200 made in Britain and 798 made in the US. The Hindi-language output of Bollywood, with its bright colours, catchy soundtracks and spectacular dance sequences, is the first - and sometimes only - thing that springs to the outsider's mind when Indian film is mentioned, but Bollywood only accounts for a small proportion of the country's films. Tollywood's output is almost as large and the return for investors on each of its pictures tends to be better.

The Hindi-language output of Bollywood, with its dance routines and catchy soundtracks, is what many outsiders associate with Indian film. Photograph: DreamPictures/Getty Images

Every film studio is a little like a small town, with multiple catering locations, shops, backlots, transport, workshops and security. Studios need space, which is why many UK studios are built on former manor estates or Ministry of Defence airfields, while some of Hollywood's biggest studios were based around ranches or large colonial mansions.

But Hyderabad's Ramoji Film City dwarfs them all. As well as the standard studio facilities, Ramoji also offers permanent sets including a prison, an elaborate hilltop temple, and a village with a town squa

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Tollywood confidential: inside the world's biggest film city

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What we do in India

Ending violence against women and girls

In India, we run One-Stop Crisis Centres where survivors of violence can get access to immediate and comprehensive support, a safe place to sleep and emotional, medical and legal help all under one roof.

When ActionAid's Gauravi One-Stop Crisis Centre in Madhya Pradesh (the state with the highest reported rate of violence against women and girls in India) opened in 2014, it was the first of its kind in the country.

Since the centre was established, it has supported 39,777 women and girls. An estimated 90% experienced violence from someone that they knew.

As well as supporting survivors, our local outreach workers are changing attitudes and challenging stigmas to end violence against women and girls. They are empowering women to recognise different types of violence within the home, and know where to get support.

ActionAid is also working with communities and law enforcers to them help spot the signs of abuse, report violence and ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted.

Building on the success of our existing Gauravi One-Stop Crisis Centre, ActionAid plans to support 11 One-Stop Crisis Centres in Madhya Pradesh in the next year and train more workers and volunteers to help survivors of sexual violence get access to justice.

Tackling discrimination

Across India, ethnic minority and caste groups experience discrimination, abuse and violence. Known as India's 'hidden apartheid,' one in six people are affected by ethnic or caste discrimination. 4 This includes not allowing people from lower castes to go to school, own land or have certain jobs.

In the state of Karnataka, ActionAid is supporting the Koraga tribe to stand up for their rights. Traditionally, Koraga tribespeople are restricted to the profession of basket weaving - meaning that many live in extreme poverty.

Together with the Koraga community, ActionAid has fought to reclaim land stolen by high caste neighbours, opened the discussion on women's rights in the community and set up centres where children can play and learn.

Witnessing discrimination against their classmates, students also organised a federation to protect Koragas children at school.

Food security

India is home to roughly a quarter of the world's undernourished population 5 and more than one-quarter of school-age children are too thin. 6

ActionAid's cooperative scheme is providing a lifeline to women living in some of the poorest parts of India, where food is scarce.

With a small grant and business training from local staff, women choose a livelihood and re-invest the profits back into the cooperative for everyone to share, so that they can feed their families.

Female foeticide

According to estimates by experts, there are 63 million missing women in India because girl babies are being aborted before they are born. India's annual economic report found that there were only 39 girls born per 100 births between 2015 and 2016. 8

Because girls are seen as a burden to their families due to the tradition of giving a daughter's dowry, many mothers are forced into taking an illegal sex determination test. If the foetus is female, they can be pushed into having an abortion.

ActionAid's 'Beti Zindabad' campaign aims to protect girls by stopping female foeticide. Beti Zindabad means 'Long Live Daughters' and celebrates the birth of a daughter in the same way that the birth of a son is celebrated.

In 2014, a Beti Zindabad campaign on Mumbai's local trains reached millions of commuters with messages including: "If we don't wake up now, it might be too late".

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India and the UK connection and Comparison

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The current population of India is 1,416,718,487 as of Monday, March 20, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

India 2020 population is estimated at 1,380,004,385 people at mid year according to UN data.

India population is equivalent to 17.7% of the total world population.

India ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.

The population density in India is 464 per Km² (1,202 people per mi²).

The total land area is 2,973,190 Km2 (1,147,955 sq. miles)

35.0 % of the population is urban (483,098,640 people in 2020)

The median age in India is 28.4 years.

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The India Population (Live) counter shows a continuously updated estimate of the current population of India delivered by Worldometer's RTS algorithm, which processes data collected from the United Nations Population Division.

The Population of India (1950 - 2019) chart plots the total population count as of July 1 of each year, from 1950 to 2019.

The Yearly Population Growth Rate chart plots the annual percentage changes in population registered on July 1 of each year, from 1951 to 2019. This value can differ from the Yearly % Change shown in the historical table, which shows the last year equivalent percentage change assuming homogeneous change in the preceding five year period.

Definitions

Year: as of July 1 of the year indicated.

Population: Overall total population (both sexes and all ages) in the country as of July 1 of the year indicated, as estimated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision. For forecasted years, the U.N. medium-fertility variant is used.

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Yearly % Change: For 2019: percentage change in total population over the last year (from July 1, 2018 to June 30 2019). For all other years: latest year annual percentage change equivalent assuming homogeneous change in the preceding five year period, calculated through reverse compounding.

Yearly Change: For 2019: absolute change in total population (increase or decrease in number of people) over the last year (from July 1, 2018 to June 30 2019). For all other years: average annual numerical change over the preceding five year period.

Migrants (net): The average annual number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants over the preceding five year period (running from July 1 to June 30 of the initial and final years), or subsequent five year period (for 2016 data). A negative number means that there are more emigrants than immigrants.

Median Age: age that divides the population into two numerically equal groups: half of the people are older than the median age indicated and half are younger. This parameter provides an indication of age distribution.

Fertility Rate: (Total Fertility Rate, or TFR), it is expressed as children per woman. It is calculated as the average number of children an average woman will have during her reproductive period (15 to 49 years old) based on the current fertility rates of every age group in the country, and assuming she is not subject to mortality.

Density (P/Km²): (Population Density) Population per square Kilometer (Km²).

Urban Pop % : Urban population as a percentage of total population.

Urban Population: Population living in areas classified as urban according to the criteria used by each country.

Country's Share of World Pop: Total population in the country as a percentage of total World Population as of July 1 of the year indicated.

World Population: Total World Population as of July 1 of the year indicated.

Global Rank: Position held by India in the list of all countries worldwide ranked by population (from the highest population to the lowest population) as of July 1 of the year indicated.

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