In the Idiom of Loss Ideology of Motherhood in Television Serials

in Television Serials Prabha Krishnan The televised version of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata contain overt and subliminal messages which need to be read in the context of the all-pervasive violence fashioned out of political expediency, religious fundamen- talism and the essential male identity. The two programmes have been subjected to semiotogical analysis in order to elucidate how meaning is generated and conveyed.