In 2002, when the madness of the Gujarat riots took over the country, I felt desperately helpless. The best way to make an impact at such a time, I felt, was to adapt Rabindranath Tagore’s classic novel Gora,” says Gargi Sen, producer of Doordarshan’s serialised version of Gora.

u00a0“We’re all equal and we’re all free — that’s the message Gora gives,” she adds. Starting October 29, the series will air over the next 10 weeks. “I had originally wanted to adapt the novel into a feature film,” reveals Gargi, “But serialising it for television is a great idea, as Tagore had originally written the story in a series of 24 chapters for the Bengali magazine Probashi.”