Talk:Ramayan (TV series)

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[edit] Broadcast Time of Ramayan in India

The articles cites The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas that gives the broadcast time of the Ramayan TV series from January 25,[3] 1987, to July 31,[4] 1988. This is incorrect. I was in India throughout March 1989 and witnessed train stations closing down and things coming to a halt for the duration of the programme. In the book Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India (Paperback) by Arvind Rajagopal we see that "The Ramayan epic was serialized on national television in India from January 1987 to August 1989..." Stephen A 22:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Ramayan ended its original broadcast at the end of July 1988, but the follow-up series Luv Kush (then broadcast as Uttar Ramayan) began its broadcast about a month or so later. That's probably what you saw in India and that's probably what the book was referring to (since Luv Kush/Uttar Ramayan is still about the Ramayana epic). (Ramayan had only 78 episodes and aired weekly, so it couldn't have stretched out over 2 years and 8 months, which amounts to over 120 weeks.) --Hnsampat 23:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank your for your clarification. Stephen A 23:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)