{"id":8754,"date":"2010-01-07T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/01\/07\/secret-millionaire-goes-to-india\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:37:58","slug":"secret-millionaire-goes-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/07\/secret-millionaire-goes-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Millionaire goes to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>British Indian entrepreneur Seema Sharma goes undercover in Mumbai<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"218\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SeemaSharma_232x180.jpg\"\/>ONE of Britain\u2019s most successful entrepreneurs will go undercover in India this month in a special episode of The Secret Millionaire on Channel 4.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>British Indian millionaire Seema Sharma \u2013 said to be worth \u00a35 million &#8211; will leave behind her affluent lifestyle in the UK to go undercover in Mumbai, India&#8217;s largest and most prosperous city. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The special episode will form part of the channel\u2019s Indian Winter season which will also see the television premiere of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Posing as a volunteer, Seema will take refuge in Dharavi, one of the largest slums in India where over a million people live crammed into an area of less than one square mile.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>It\u2019s a far cry from her South East London home she shares with husband Sanjay and their two daughters. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Although Seema speaks basic Hindi her only knowledge of India comes from Bollywood films and five-star holidays. Now, in search of a new challenge, she&#8217;ll be leaving behind her British lifestyle and flying to Mumbai, the financial capital of the country. Though central to India&#8217;s economic boom, Mumbai offers a shocking disparity between wealth and poverty: over half of its thirteen million residents live in slums or on the streets. Whilst there, Seema will look for and be introduced to people who might need her help.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A spokesperson for the show said: \u201cFrom the Doorstep School designed to educate homeless children, to a charity which persuades the wealthy to donate toys, Seema is confronted by truly insurmountable dilemmas in trying to decide how to give away her money in a responsible and effective way.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong><em>Slumdog Secret Millionaire, Sunday 17 Jan, Channel 4, 9pm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Indian entrepreneur Seema Sharma goes undercover in Mumbai ONE of Britain\u2019s most successful entrepreneurs will go undercover in India this month in a special episode of The Secret Millionaire on Channel 4. &#13; British Indian millionaire Seema Sharma \u2013 said to be worth \u00a35 million &#8211; will leave behind her affluent lifestyle in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}