The Story of India...

A real good series! (Links re edited in 2014 Jan, sorry this may keep changing and you may need searcxh using the Doc name and series names) - Documentary from BBC on the story of India. Each of the part is about 10 minutes and some loner. But worth watching. Listing the links below.

There is indeed a vedic inclination and the Buddhist influence in the history of the study done! But interesting indeed on the path of civilization across west asia(aka today the Middle east) to Indian subcontinent. Even with an excerpt from Tharoor on the epic Mahabharata !The journey explores Afghanistan, China and pakistan along side on the trade routes. And we start to take the global steps on the way..
You may find some drops in between the parts. sorry.. will patch up when I can!

In India we have learned history but it makes deeper a look at this turning point of India!

My sincere appreciation to Micheal Woods and the team who did the story travelling across the region and criss crosses of India!

|| Beginnings  || Part 1: || Part 2: || Part 3: || Part 4: || Part 5: || Part 6a || Part 6b || Part 7: || Part 8: || Part 9: || Part 10: ||
|| The Power of Ideas Part 2 ||
|| Spice routes Silk Roads PartA || PartB || PartC || PartD ||
A cycle of History and the new ages begin || Ages of Gold PartA ||
|| The meeting of Two Oceans PartA ||
||Freedom Part A || The best conclusion ever I have seen in a documentary. Precisely covering the cycle of time and the tryst with destiny helping realise the power and significance of every single word in that speech on the day of independence.

I was AMAZED how true it is today that the focus transcended through the years as he mentions in the closing statements of the documentary and just amazed because of the Vision of Nehru turning so true never lost over the struggling years of building of this great democracy!
The words quoted from the Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech on the eve of Indian Independence the dawn of history -

"It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again"

Yes, Today India discovers herself again - The ancient, The Eternal and the ever new!