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Ekaant

2014

2 seasons

38 episodes

Documentary

India is known for its remarkable architecture and serene landscapes. Its rich history is steeped in mystery; its vastness - lends itself to several stories and urban legends. Ekaant takes you through the abandoned roads and alleys of some of India’s historic locations. Travelling through the spread out palaces and deserted forts, the show documents and investigates the eerie processes of abandonment of each site. How flourishing towns and cities came to be in ruins, is the question each episode seeks to answer. Ekaant explores the ceasing of life and the triumph of nature even in the most populated of places and takes you on the road no longer travelled.

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Akul Tripathi

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The show is anchored by Akul Tripathi who takes viewers on a journey across the abandoned historic locations of India. Akul takes you through the abandoned roads and alleys of some of India’s historic places. Travelling through the spread out palaces and deserted forts, the show documents and investigates the eerie processes of abandonment of each site.

Ep 1
1.Kuldhara
19-11-201421m
Our quest for the most beautiful abandoned places in India and the history behind them took us to Kuldhara - a vast maze-like cluster of roofless homes, bare walls, and a carpet of...
Ep 2
2.Chiktan
20-11-201423m
Far up in the Himalayas, a couple of hours drive from the border town of Kargil, further north from the grand Srinagar-Leh Highway lie the ruins of what once must have been a majes...
Ep 3
3.Ross Island
21-11-201424m
Ross Island is a tiny little Island at the mouth of the Port Blair Harbour. It is, in fact, the entry point into the Andaman islands. At one point in time, it served as the capital...
Ep 4
4.Talakkad
24-11-201422m
Talakad has a long history, going back to at least the 8th or 9th century when it was the capital of the Ganga Kings. In later years, it was also a prominent city under the Cholas,...
Ep 5
5.Murud
25-11-201423m
The astonishment of why some places lie abandoned and in ruins does not get more perplexing than this. Off the Konkan coast of Maharastra lies the impregnable, unassailable and unc...
Ep 6
6.Unakoti
26-11-201422m
Unakoti is a place in the North East of India where carvings of Gods and Godesses lie abandoned on a hill. In numbers these statues are one less than a crore and are in the form of...
Ep 7
7.Bhangarh
27-11-201423m
A couple of hours drive from Jaipur, in the land of a thousand forts, the fort of Bhangarh has consistently topped the list of the most haunted place in the country. Not much is kn...
Ep 8
8.Orchha
28-11-201423m
A medieval town of palaces and temples, and while the temples still draw pilgrims by the thousands the majestic palaces lie silent. What prompted the Bundelkhandi Kings of Orchha t...
Ep 9
9.Lakhpat
01-12-201422m
Human Life has long been intertwined with the course of rivers and their confluence with the great seas. Lakhpat is the apocalytic setting of life if the river were to disappear. S...
Ep 10
10.Kittur
02-12-201422m
Kittur in Karnataka is a place where the story of one of the first women freedom fighters Rani Chennama lies in a silent abandoned fort. All about wars and bravery, this episode un...
Ep 11
11.Nyarma
03-12-201422m
A thousand years ago, in an age when Buddhism was prominent in Kashmir, Ladakh and Srinagar, an exceptionally visionary scholar and translator, Lochava Rinchen Zangpo, set up a wor...
Ep 12
12.Roha
04-12-201422m
In the vast territories of the Kutch, on top of a forlorn hillock stands the fort of Roha. Once the biggest jaagir in the region, it lies neglected and forgotten. A close observer...
Ep 13
13.Cellular Jail
05-12-201423m
Its a place where freedom fighters were kept before the independence of India. This place has witnessed the torture and pain given to the people imprisoned here after the first war...
Ep 14
14.Gagron Fort & Vilasgarh
08-12-201422m
This time our quest for abandoned places and their stories took us to two different places in East Rajasthan. One, an erstwhile king's capital reduced to rubble after being ravaged...
Ep 15
15.Halebidu
09-12-201422m
A forgotten capital of a forgotten kingdom. Its name today means ruined city, but at the height of the Hoysala rule in the 12th century, Halebidu enjoyed an important status and wa...
Ep 16
16.Shekhawati
10-12-201422m
The sleepy town of Ramgarh in northern Rajasthan is known by connoisseurs as a unique open art gallery. It is the site of several mansions made at a time when it was on the crossro...
Ep 17
17.Martand
11-12-201423m
Standing majestically on a plateau above the flood plains of Kashmir are the stupendous ruins of the Sun Temple of Martand. Described as “a dream in stone designed by Titans and fi...
Ep 18
18.Shibsagar
12-12-201422m
A place from where lies the story of a once- powerful Ancient kingdom of the Ahom Rulers.This kingdom shaped the beautiful north eastern state of Assam. However, despite the storie...
Ep 19
19.Champaner
15-12-201423m
Champaner lies in Gujarat, This town has has seen three kingdoms and their contribution to several fortifications.. At one point of time this place was the capital of Gujarat, but...
Ep 20
20.Hari Parbat
16-12-201422m
Known as the Koh-i-Maran in Persian, the hill of Hari Parbat is crested with a fort of the same name. Originally built by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, the fort has been the silent sen...
Ep 21
21.Nalanda
17-12-201423m
There are precious few monuments and artefacts in our ancient land which have survived the vagaries of man and time. But the ones that do are an insight into an India that was inim...
Ep 22
22.Lucknow
18-12-201423m
Amongst the many scattered battles of the First War of Independence of 1857, none has been eulogised in literature and popular culture as the Siege Of Lucknow. Once the quarters an...
Ep 23
23.Bishnupur
19-12-201422m
Situated in a forgotten part of Bengal, 150kms north-west of Kolkata, is a city that was a proud capital for over 800 years of a kingdom whose royal lineage stretched over a thousa...
Ep 24
24.Vijaydurg
22-12-201423m
On the Konkan coast of Maharastra sits in seeming placidness the serene sea fort of Vijaydurg. A rock that has been witness to thrilling times of an era when Shivaji and his empire...
Ep 25
25.Bateshwar
23-12-201423m
Hidden in the ravines of the Chambal and protected for centuries by dense forest is an ancient temple town. Named after the Lord of the Elements - Shiva, this site; the ancient Bat...
Ep 26
26.Hampi
24-12-201423m
On the banks of the gleefully wavering Tungabhadra, flanked by mountains made of towering boulders, sits, what seems like an impossible city - Hampi. Once known as Vijaynagar it se...

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