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The Story of India

Scrumtrulescent is what can be described about this video, "The Story of India" by Michael Wood from BBC. on first look I was enthralled by the title and my curosity deepend within a few minutes of viewing it, and suddenly all those curosity transformed into excitement when one of my professor Dr Pichappan under whose tutelage we studied Immunology and molecular biology at the school of biological sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, India cropped up in the video!. In the year 2001, almost serendipitiously Prof Pichappan discovered that a person by name virumandi in a remote village in the southern part of Tamilnadu had a gene ( a type of HLA marker) that gives direct evidence to the ancestral origin of the human species to africa and that there is a mere 2000 generation gap between an eskimo and an african, these were published in Nature genetics and was a big news at that time. Watching this my eyes gleamed with pride for few minutes.
This video is well narrated and deserves a commendation. It depicts the culture, and innocence of the people in the country, though there are certain discrepancy about hinduism as such this I think, can be excused for ignorance. The producers have tried hard to somehow give a glimse into the richness of the 10,000 year old civilisation in this brief story of India a must watch for all those who appreciates 'history as history' and not the histroy that is always been written (dictated) and taught by those who win.

Watch this video here



The rest of the parts here
from google videos
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5