Synopsis
In India, Simon travels from the coast of Gujarat in the west to Kolkata in the east, via Bhopal and Gandhi's home town of Ahmedabad.
- Programme: Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve
- Episode: 4: India
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Geography
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