Chindu Sreedharan, a lecturer from UK is retelling the Mahabharata on Twitter (http://twitter.com/epicretold), hoping to get the attention and interest of the users. Just imagine the task he has on his hands now. He wants to re-tell the great epic in 140 characters every day, step-by-step? He needs to be creative and efficient to have the interest lured to the tweets.In 1980s the epic on the television managed to empty the city streets, forced changes in power cuts and railway timings. Even the actors of the serial got elected as members of the parliament. Will Sreedharan be able to create such a situation of narrating the epic tweet by tweet? I do agree the epic itself is written so well that there is dramatic tension every minute.
The strategy that Sreedharan is using here is his narration of this epic as per the point of view of Bheema. Yes, this interested me as well to know how this epic was viewed Bheema and will let us understand his thoughts too.
Now, I can imagine… Hum Log, Buniyaad too on this media. And not to forget “Twitter Mey Sholay”…hmm reality shows?
Source: Reuters
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