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India's Little-Known Minority: The Siddi and the Olympic Dream
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India's Little-Known Minority: The Siddi and the Olympic Dream

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Nimeksha Siddi trains on a dirt track hoping to become India's sprinting hope for the 2028 Olympics. She belongs to the Siddi, a community descended from Africans brought to India as slaves or mercenaries some 500 years ago, so overlooked that many Indians mistake its members for foreign tourists. The film follows Nimeksha's daily life alongside interviews with her mother Kamala Siddi, who set a national pentathlon record at 15 in a 1983 government program designed to scout athletic talent in Siddi villages and was rewarded with a railway job and a flat with running water. Decades later, most Siddi still work as day laborers or gather honey, rubber, and plants for a living, facing racism and exclusion despite generations in the country. Footage moves between training sessions, village life, and family conversations, tracing how one government sports program became, for a few families, the only route out of poverty and invisibility.

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Runtime compared with the other 2,383 Society films
Runtime43 m
Compared with SocietyShorter than 53%
Source channelDW Documentary (YouTube)