‘Sacred Games’, a coming of age for Indian television
The HinduThe unfamiliar thrumming is hard to identify at first. As I walk to my friend’s house near Finsbury Park, the choppers seem to be going around, keeping me in the centre of the circle, and also coming lower and lower. The jokes are already flying about on the Net: “Is Trump trying to bomb us or is it Boris Johnson attempting a military coup?” And: “This is how Putin will make the U.K. submit — via a pawn POTUS and his Air Force.” Then: “First Hitler’s Stukas, now Trump’s Ospreys, but we shall never surrender!” This last comparison is actually quite apt: the Stuka dive bomber was designed to make a terrorising wail as it plunged to bomb hapless civilians. Some thoughts on ‘Sacred Games’ Talking about rogue nukes, my Indian host and I have been binge watching Netflix’s Sacred Games. The Shah Bano case, the Mandal upheavals and the Babri destruction may hold pivotal value for us in following the story of Sacred Games, but the realisation also hits home that, at least in the near future, these references will always be carpet-bombed by the noise of events closer to home in Europe and north America.
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