Tag Archives: Hindi

Invading living rooms: Mythology to rule primetime yet again

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING TV producers are set to satiate Indian viewers’ voracious appetite for mythology. Serialized versions of epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata captivated India’s imagination in the 1980s. Their reruns are popular to this day, prompting producers to capitalize anew on viewers’ love for glitzy costume period dramas. To keep viewers hooked […]

Wordplay goes vernacular with a Hindi version of Scrabble

by Rohini Haldea WHAT’S HAPPENING Scrabble in Hindi? It’s possible. MadRat Games, a company started by three IIT graduates, has launched Aksharit, an Indian-language version of Scrabble. While the basic rules mirror Scrabble, some gameplay mechanisms have been adapted to deal with the complexities of Indian languages like matras (vowels) and half letters. To get […]

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