Comments on: Gangadham: A Hindu theme-park http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Reb http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-257014 Reb Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:29:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-257014 <p>Whatever happened to the Gangadham project anyway? I see the last info about it in search was around 2006. I guess it never happened?</p> Whatever happened to the Gangadham project anyway? I see the last info about it in search was around 2006. I guess it never happened?

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]]> By: DesiDancer http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-9091 DesiDancer Mon, 02 May 2005 16:40:44 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-9091 <blockquote>Disney has approached us for land outside Delhi to build a theme park. The company is very upbeat about the project. Its top officials are lobbying hard to wangle a very, very big plot," the Post quoted an unidentified official at India's Urban Development Ministry as saying.</blockquote> <p>just so long as they don't mess with Appu Ghar... ;)</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3572818.stm">Indian Sesame Street</a> is going to introduce this, and every successive generation, to the concept of Edu-tainment. More kids with ADD and attention spans of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22seven+minute%22+%22attention+span%22+%22television%22">7 minute intervals</a>... they're going to need animatronic characters to give them their Ramayana lessons...</p> Disney has approached us for land outside Delhi to build a theme park. The company is very upbeat about the project. Its top officials are lobbying hard to wangle a very, very big plot,” the Post quoted an unidentified official at India’s Urban Development Ministry as saying.

just so long as they don’t mess with Appu Ghar… ;)

Indian Sesame Street is going to introduce this, and every successive generation, to the concept of Edu-tainment. More kids with ADD and attention spans of 7 minute intervals… they’re going to need animatronic characters to give them their Ramayana lessons…

]]> By: Rahul http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-9057 Rahul Mon, 02 May 2005 02:11:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-9057 <p><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=509&e=8&u=/ap/20050501/ap_on_bi_ge/india_disney">Disney Denies Lobbying India Over Park</a></p> Disney Denies Lobbying India Over Park

]]> By: yogatastic http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-9044 yogatastic Sun, 01 May 2005 22:54:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-9044 <p>Well, I guess the TV serial wasn't commercial or exploitative enough for the producers, there are ever greater heights of gaudiness to scale... I am sure it will be very enlightening for all the pilgrims who visit ;)</p> Well, I guess the TV serial wasn’t commercial or exploitative enough for the producers, there are ever greater heights of gaudiness to scale… I am sure it will be very enlightening for all the pilgrims who visit ;)

]]> By: sd http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-8956 sd Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:45:34 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-8956 <p>I'm with Desidancer on the educational entertainment factor, thus the reason television news is as bad as it is. No, wait, that's not the only reason...</p> <p>The Disney meeting with PM Singh is a follow-up to the company's launch of two children's programming channels in India late last year; Fox and Disney seem like too much peanut butter in the chocolate, but what do I know.</p> <p>By the way, anyone catch that odd aside regarding Alice Coltrane and her involvement in the theme-park project? Interesting, especially if she and John Coltrane were on same wavelength regarding spirituality.</p> I’m with Desidancer on the educational entertainment factor, thus the reason television news is as bad as it is. No, wait, that’s not the only reason…

The Disney meeting with PM Singh is a follow-up to the company’s launch of two children’s programming channels in India late last year; Fox and Disney seem like too much peanut butter in the chocolate, but what do I know.

By the way, anyone catch that odd aside regarding Alice Coltrane and her involvement in the theme-park project? Interesting, especially if she and John Coltrane were on same wavelength regarding spirituality.

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-8955 Salil Maniktahla Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:16:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-8955 <p>Oh, y'all need to catch up to the cutting edge reporting of BI, guys. :-D</p> <p>http://maniktahla.blogspot.com/2005/04/worlds-first-hindu-theme-park.html#c111472184027367059</p> Oh, y’all need to catch up to the cutting edge reporting of BI, guys. :-D

http://maniktahla.blogspot.com/2005/04/worlds-first-hindu-theme-park.html#c111472184027367059

]]> By: ammayi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-8944 ammayi Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:01:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-8944 <p>I guess you really do learn something new everyday.</p> I guess you really do learn something new everyday.

]]> By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-8936 Manish Vij Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:31:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-8936 <blockquote>... some people can only stomach learning if it's presented as entertainment... ie, Blue's Clues, Ramayana series...</blockquote> <p>And indeed, the founder of this park is the grandson of the guy who did <em>The Ramayana</em> on TV. So expect to see 52 badly copied episodes of their TV ads spoken in Olde Hindi and filmed in Chaste-o-Vision.</p> … some people can only stomach learning if it’s presented as entertainment… ie, Blue’s Clues, Ramayana series…

And indeed, the founder of this park is the grandson of the guy who did The Ramayana on TV. So expect to see 52 badly copied episodes of their TV ads spoken in Olde Hindi and filmed in Chaste-o-Vision.

]]> By: DesiDancer http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/04/28/gangadham_a_hin/comment-page-1/#comment-8935 DesiDancer Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:04:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=1437#comment-8935 <p>While I think it's a bit on the silly side, I have been forced to acknowledge that some people can only stomach learning if it's presented as entertainment (Sesame Street began this concept, but it has caught on, ie, Blue's Clues, Ramayana series, Mahabharat series, etc.) It may turn out to be a good way for those who approach life as Cliff Notes to get their lessons in values in the same dose as a tilt-o-whirl and corn dog...</p> <p>I'd definitely take a day to see the Wild Buddhists. And <a href="http://www.lostparks.com/china.html">Splendid China</a> theme park, outside of Orlando was actually one of the most underappreciated treasures in the area... it's not <em>always</em> bad. Dumbed down, perhaps, but not bad</p> While I think it’s a bit on the silly side, I have been forced to acknowledge that some people can only stomach learning if it’s presented as entertainment (Sesame Street began this concept, but it has caught on, ie, Blue’s Clues, Ramayana series, Mahabharat series, etc.) It may turn out to be a good way for those who approach life as Cliff Notes to get their lessons in values in the same dose as a tilt-o-whirl and corn dog…

I’d definitely take a day to see the Wild Buddhists. And Splendid China theme park, outside of Orlando was actually one of the most underappreciated treasures in the area… it’s not always bad. Dumbed down, perhaps, but not bad

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