Was casually flipping through the channels this Saturday afternoon, and I caught onto an episode of the landmark series of Doordarshan based on Nehru's 'Discovery of India'.
The particular episode was based on the plight of the 'Indigo farmers' (Neel ke kisan). How, the unbridled exploitation of the farmers set's the spark for the first flames of a national movement against the British. This movement initially finds favor with the zamindars and the bhadralok, who try to rouse the peasants into confronting the British landlords.
The episode ends with the narrator (Roshan Seth as Nehru) saying - 'jo kaum kamzor hoti hai woh apni aafat ko khud nyota deti hai' (The weak community wreaks misery upon itself).
The episode ends as usual with the stirring incantation of a Rigvedic hymn, to the praise of the Sun god, set to the musical score by Vanraj Bhatia.
The 'plight of the farmers' is a constant refrain in Indian politics, true now as it was earlier. They still remain the vanguards to the fate of the nation.
Recently, the director and members of the cast of this series were felicitated by the Government of India.
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