It is a series that airs on Doordarshan in the 1980s. They took the story of the serial from a very famous novel written by a Bengali artist. It showed an era when India was independent but still was under the influence of British people. When British people were still the principals of the great colleges like The Hindu, there were a lot of colleges who had Indian headmasters, and they were doing a commendable job. The story revolves around the royal house in which everyone is so connected to the other.
You get a whiff of everything classic in this show, like hookahs in every residence, the royal family with silky saffron clothes and children of the royal families want to be adopting the British culture. The lady of the royal family is shown as very loving and caring person who don’t have a child and thus loves a prostitute’s boy like her own. The man in the family went to the temple and asked for a child when he faces a baba who somehow gets to know what he is praying and tells him that you don’t deserve a kid.
After 20 years they are blessed with a baby boy and the lady announces him as their second child as Ganga will always be the first. They are a happy family but Mr. Thakur senses maybe in future both kids will fight and to resolve that factor he chooses to make a will and announces both boys as equal partners in the property. Mother is a little bit shaken by the thought not because of the fear of it happening, but because Mr. Thakur even thought of this, she is damn sure Ganga won’t do anything that is not in favor of his brother. In the colleges, there is a whole different story is shown. As a friend of Ganga who is brilliant in studies especially in English literature, dreams of being as great as Keats and Shakespeare but when he discloses his wishes to the British principal he mocks him by saying these Indians don’t know anything.
The principal is then paid a visit by the Indian principal of Sanskrit college. The British man receives him sitting in his cabin and his feet with shoes on the table. The Indian headmaster taking it as disrespect leaves the room and does the same when the Hindu college head visits him. Seeing him in that position the British gets offended and complains to the jury. Jury when gets to know everything starts laughing on the cleverness of the Indian.