When the music played

For all the years it was central to entertainment and information, the television was called "the idiot box", and a good vs bad debate continues to swirl around it long after many have cut cable and switched to streaming.

- SHALINI UMACHANDRAN

Television has shaped cultural history, just like the internet is doing now, and in India, it’s the years of cable television that transformed the way we wanted to be entertained. The nostalgia for Doordarshan remains strong, but what urban Indians actually grew up and learnt aspiration from was shows like