India Today

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India Today
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Village Life

• 70 of Indians live in villages and farm for a
  living
• Most in villages live in mud houses with no
  running water
• Cooking done outside sleep outside on hot nights

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Food and Clothing

• Most Indians are vegetarians some eat goat and
  chicken if live close sea- fish
• Most clothing is light and loose- due to hot
  climate
• Many Indian women still wear a sari- brightly
  colored cloth that is draped over the body like a
  long dress

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City Life

• Cities are very crowded lots of poor people
• Major cities in India- Mumbai, Calcutta, New
  Delhi
• Mumbais pop density 64,000 people per square
  mile (NYC 25,000/sq mile)

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Challenges

• Feeding more than 1 Billion people- govt has
  given land to people to promote more farming
• Expanding Industry- creating more jobs one of
  worlds leading industrial nations
• Education illiteracy is still widespread most
  villages now have a school
• Health Care- avg life expectancy 68 years many
  cant afford basic health care some towns and
  cities have little sanitation and bad drinking
  water