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Science-fiction and American wild west are two genres that have a lot of work of fiction in their fold. Both are very popular and there have been quite a few attempts at merging the elements of these e.g., Cowboys vs Aliens. In some ways, both genres work around the central theme of exploring – the human tendency to conquer new ... Read More »

Episode #39 of Hindi TV Serial Bharat Ek Khoj explores the rise of British power in India. It is thus rightfully tited as Company Bahadur. When I was in school I used to hear that why should we need to learn history? And the situation is not changed. Most of us, at some point of in time, have felt that ... Read More »

Episode #38 of Hindi TV Serial Bharat Ek Khoj explores the final segment of the life of Shivaji. Though he was a ruler of a very small kingdom, he used guerrilla warfare to claim a lot more than that. Despite having a small area under his rule compared to the Mughal sultanate, Shivaji was able to make his mark, not ... Read More »

Episode #37 of Hindi TV Serial Bharat Ek Khoj explores the first segment of the life of Shivaji. Though he was a ruler of a very small kingdom, he used guerrilla warfare to claim a lot more than that. Despite having a small area under his rule compared to the Mughal sultanate, Shivaji was able to make his mark, not ... Read More »

The James Bond franchise needs no introduction and as the trade of spying is as old as humankind and its tendency to go to wars, i.e, as long as our histories go, it also goes in the circles like everything else in life. The James Bonds of sixties through eighties might score very high on the flamboyance and glamour aspects ... Read More »

Let us continue our quest to review Hindi TV Serial Bharat Ek Khoj which is a magnum opus of Shyam Benegal. While you may find some of the stuff controversial but remember that the serial is a dramatized version of Discovery of India, a book penned by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Episode #36 of Bharat Ek Khoj continues exploring the story ... Read More »