From a measly 1.2 million impressions in week 12 starting on March 21, the viewership for Ramayan has exponentially grown to 545.8 million impressions in week 13 starting on March 28, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council-Nielsen (BARC) data released on April 9.
Ramayan, created by Ramanand Sagar and primarily based on Valmiki‘s Ramayan and Tulsidas‘ Ramcharitmanas, the TV series was an enormous success back then when it released in 1987 and it is an even bigger success now as its viewership grew 454 times in the morning and evening slots combined. All the old shows will now be available in DD Retro.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
