![]() ![]() ![]() In villages across south Asia, hundreds of people would gather around a single set to watch the gods and demons play out their destinies. Everyone stopped what they were doing to sit in front of whatever television was available. ![]() This 78-part series was at the time the world's most viewed religious serial, and between January 1987 and July 1988 it more or less brought India to a standstill for an hour each week. The BBC recently celebrated its success in drawing 10 million viewers to the final episode of the latest series of Doctor Who, but it was still a long way short of the figures achieved by Doordarshan, the Indian state television company, which in the late 1980s drew more than 100 million viewers to its mythological epic, the Ramayana. ![]()
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