the ancient art of pehlwani evolved from indian wrestling techniques that date back to the 5th century b.c. voice: ready. start. anthony: training is rigid, as this is not just a sport, but a way of life. wrestlers live and train together and have strict rules of diet and personal conduct. no smoking, no drinking, no contact with women. here we go. i took high school wrestling actually so that i could get out of gym class. i was a dirty, dirty fighter.
over india. in an attempt to prevent what the colonials saw as an inevitable civil war between hindus, muslims, and sikhs, the british commissioned sir cyril radcliffe, a lawyer from wales, to draw up a new border. uday: he was given two months, you know. anthony: two months to divide create a new country basically. uday: two months to divide the so he took the map, and just drew a line. you know people died because of the displacement. unofficially they say it s two million people. you know, when giants fight, the minnows get trampled upon. anthony: in one of the largest exchanges of populations in history, many millions of people fled their homes. almost immediately, religious violence broke out on a mass scale. this is exactly what the partition had been intended to avoid. do people here still have families over there? uday: yeah they do. when the line was drawn, they were villages which were split into half. there are some houses where you enter from india and you exi
uday: we are right next to pakistan. anthony: india and pakistan were once one country. ripped apart in one of the hastiest, ill-considered partitions imaginable. beyond there, no more fence? uday: no more fences. anthony: so it s - once you get past there, you can go straight into pakistan if you want. uday: the problem is the thing is, india is trying to stop people from coming in. the infiltrators, you know drug dealers and terrorists. anthony: uday is working on a documentary about the indian-pakistan border. uday: no one wants to go into pakistan. anthony: no one wants to go into pakistan. uday: no one wants to in their right mind wants to go into pakistan. anthony: well really that s a fairly decisive statement. so, they put up a fence but the fence is on the indian side. uday: yeah. it s uh, one fifty meters, from the border. anthony: right. so beyond that fence, still indian farmland. uday: yes. anthony: so people who live over here can farm ov
those smiles. that s why i do what i do. that and the paycheck. anthony: want something good? really, really good, when in amritsar? something local, regional, iconically wonderful? you can t say you ve had the amritsar experience until you ve had a little kulcha in your life. kulcha. this is the iconic dish of punjab. navroop: yes.
the majestic golden temple, the sikh equivalent of the vatican. sikhs are fundamentally against any caste system, believers in religious tolerance. but they are just as fundamentally war-like when it comes to defending their principles and what they see as their territory. man: welcome to golden temple. anthony: thank you. today is a gurpurab, one of the most auspicious days of the sikh calendar. pilgrims from all over the world come to worship, walk the perimeter, and bathe in the holy pool. all are welcome, of any faith or caste. to remove their shoes, wash their feet, cover their heads, and take part in a simple meal .