India Rising - One Billion Reasons to Care

In the ABC Documentary India Rising – One Billion Reasons to Care, the videographers took to the streets of India to see life as it occurs in India.  It was quite surprising to see the internet school with the older model computer knowing that the call centers of India are taking incredible volumes of calls on such outdated computers.  The language of English was constantly referred to but as we viewed many signage throughout the country, the use was not always correctly stated or spoken.   The housing was as poor as it was in the first video and transportation also difficult with so many people to be transported.  I also viewed another video not on the list about the Indian Military:  Future Superpower.  This made me very curious about an aspect that was spoken little about – the role of women in Indian society.  While travelling about we did see women performing in military uniform.  In the prestigious companies of Infosys and Microland we saw women employed at those businesses but it was in the pharmaceutical company of Astrix Laboratories that we heard that the social norm only allows women to work during certain hours of the day (I assume this is outside of the home).  We saw women selling fish and working in the fields of the village.