Ramayana: Hindu Epic and Television
- The making of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana TV series, 1986
- Doordarshan, "Seeing Far," India’s government-run TV
- The enormous popularity of the TV-epic
- TV-devotion, family values, and Hindu community
- Critical perspectives, commercialization, video-latry, Hindu hegemony
Watch: Ramanand Sagar. Ramayana (Hindi with English subtitles), Episode I, 1987, 34 mins.
Assignment: Summary Paper
The summary paper asks you to give an account of the readings of the week. It should be 400 to 550 words in length. Major criteria for the assessment and grading of your summary papers will be that your paper provides a summary that strives for a wide, well-balanced, and thoroughly illustrated representation of the topics, arguments, and cases covered in the sources. Since the material is complex and covers many different things, it is important that you present what you think is essential and then elaborate the gist of it. The goal is to be concise, but also informative, analytical, but also illustrative. As with other assignments, evidence that you have studied the assigned material and mastered its complexity, argument, and terminology will guide your grading.
