ndian television seems to be witnessing a revival of the grand epics and period dramas as channels unleash one show after another and wait for the blessings to shower.

Take NDTV Imagine. The channel can thank Ramayan for its fortunes. That serial - though its effect is nowhere the street-emptying success of its predecessor on Doordarshan during the 1980s - seems to be single-handedly driving the channel. ... more