![]() ![]() What this historical TV show reveals about China today ![]() ![]() Ramanand Sagar’s TV adaptation of the epic Hindu poem the Ramayana tells the story of crown prince, Lord Ram, who is banished into exile for 14 years, and must rescue his kidnapped wife Sita from the clutches of a ten-headed demon. Whereas in London I had to pester my parents to watch Neighbours and EastEnders, in Delhi they insisted I join them, my grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins to watch the Ramayan. On those trips, I’d swap Batman comics for Amar Chitra Katha comic books, depicting wondrous Hindu mythology cans of cherry coke for glass bottles of Campa Cola and four terrestrial TV channels for one, Doordarshan. As a teenager growing up in late-1980s London, visits to New Delhi to see my extended family were like stepping into another world.
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