Our days of Ramayana 📃 by Uruj Shahid
In the mid 80s, there were no televisions in everyone's homes, but in one house, people used to gather to watch their favorite programs, then whether it was a Hindu or a Muslim house, there was no difference . When the serial Ramayan serial by Ramanand Sagar started on our black & white TV on Doordarshan channel on 25 January 1987, it was as if we all became part of Ram Raj for a few hours. We were a Muslim family and our neighbors were mostly from the Hindu family. In our colony, many of those Hindu families used to come to our house to watch the Ramayan serial on TV and on the day this serial was broadcast , in our house too we were quickly disposed of all work so that we all could see Ramayan together. Our family had watched the entire Ramayan and but when this serial was completed, we were also very sad that it will no longer air on Doordarshan channel . I remember at that time, on the cover of our school copies, there were also pictures of Arun Govil and Deepika Chitnis,