Season 1

episodes

1. 1. Kuldhara 2014-11-19 21 min 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 disjointed bricks a...
2. 2. Chiktan 2014-11-20 23 min 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 majestic fort. Rumoured t...
3. 3. Ross Island 2014-11-21 24 min 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 of the British in t...
4. 4. Talakkad 2014-11-24 22 min 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, the Hoysalas, the V...
5. 5. Murud 2014-11-25 23 min 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 unconquered fort of Jan...
6. 6. Unakoti 2014-11-26 22 min 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 rock cut structures...
7. 7. Bhangarh 2014-11-27 23 min 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 known about the fort a...
8. 8. Orchha 2014-11-28 23 min 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 to abandon their capi...
9. 9. Lakhpat 2014-12-01 22 min 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. Situated at the mouth...
10. 10. Kittur 2014-12-02 22 min 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 unearths the heroic ch...
11. 11. Nyarma 2014-12-03 22 min 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 world class university...
12. 12. Roha 2014-12-04 22 min 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 in the tragic death...
13. 13. Cellular Jail 2014-12-05 23 min 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 of independence. Ho...
14. 14. Gagron Fort & Vilasgarh 2014-12-08 22 min 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 by war, and the sec...
15. 15. Halebidu 2014-12-09 22 min 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 was called ‘Dwarsamudr...
16. 16. Shekhawati 2014-12-10 22 min 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 crossroads of trade routes...
17. 17. Martand 2014-12-11 23 min 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 finished by jewellers”...
18. 18. Shibsagar 2014-12-12 22 min 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 stories and the 600 year o...
19. 19. Champaner 2014-12-15 23 min 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 today lies only as a...
20. 20. Hari Parbat 2014-12-16 22 min 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 sentinel watching the w...
21. 21. Nalanda 2014-12-17 23 min 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 inimitable as it was mar...
22. 22. Lucknow 2014-12-18 23 min 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 and centre of operatio...
23. 23. Bishnupur 2014-12-19 22 min 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 thousand years! The only s...
24. 24. Vijaydurg 2014-12-22 23 min 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 spread through the...
25. 25. Bateshwar 2014-12-23 23 min 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 Bateshwar has the dense...
26. 26. Hampi 2014-12-24 23 min 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 served as capital of a...