Tag: Circus
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Retelecast of epics during lockdown: Orchestrated nostalgia or soft radicalisation?
Kolkata: Last weekend, shows depicting Hindu mythological epics ‘Ramayan’ and ‘Mahabharat’ started airing on Doordarshan and DD Bharati. And in the ensuing week ‘Ramayan’ garnered the highest-ever rating for a Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC) programme since 2015. This was confirmed by an official statement released by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday.…