Hindus from neighboring Muslim-majority Pakistan have been heading across the border fuelled by the promise of a better life, but reality isn't matching up to expectations.
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00:00 The government is saying that we are not going to help our women, our pregnant women, our Hindus.
00:12 Send us back. They don't have a place. They don't have money.
00:19 They will be like Pakistan. Send us back to Pakistan.
00:23 We will just sit there and eat, get beaten up. What else can we do?
00:27 We just want to say this to the government.
00:32 Our women are going to have a baby at the age of five.
00:44 The government has not given anything to our children.
00:49 They say that government money is coming from above.
00:53 Children are getting it, women are getting it.
00:55 The government has not given us anything. The hospital has not given us anything.
00:59 There is no road here. It's a bare road.
01:05 They put a ladder on top of the road and climb up.
01:09 The children climb up with the help of the ladder.
01:12 There is no access to the road.
01:15 There is no access to water.
01:17 The water comes from the pump. The NGO has given us the pump.
01:22 The water comes from the pump.
01:26 The water is filled in the drum.
01:29 The truck driver stands there for two hours and then leaves.
01:33 I am from Pakistan. My name is Lal Chand. I came in 2018.
01:44 We are Hindus in Pakistan. They are Muslims.
01:50 When the Modi government announced that Hindus can come to India,
01:55 they will get a lot of facilities.
01:58 I said that I am a Hindu, I am a Sanarthi family.
02:02 I will not leave my religion.
02:04 They left the country and did not leave religion.
02:08 I came here.
02:10 The government has no money.
02:18 The government has not helped us.
02:22 It's been six years.
02:25 No government has helped us.
02:27 We get married here.
02:31 We don't have enough money to spend on our children.
02:34 We don't have a credit card, a pen, or a ration card.
02:38 Three or four of us have died in the jungle.
02:46 We don't want to do this.
02:49 How can our lives be ruined?
02:52 If one dies slowly, what will we do?
02:55 What is the point of us coming here?
02:57 We say to the government,
02:58 give us a good place to sit.
03:01 If they don't do it, we will be free.
03:04 (children laughing)
03:08 (door slams)
03:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]