Doordarshan was the only channel available to us when we were kids. And that too on a black and white Onida Television.
In 1997, we had our first superhero on television Shaktimaan, which aired on doordarshan in September that year at 12 noon for the first time.
Shaktimaan had some amazing cool powers. He could control the elements of his body and divide into five different bodies made of fire, wind, water, earth and sky. Early Indian Philosophers classified matter in the form of five basic elements- Panch Tatva - air, earth, fire, sky and water. Our body and anything else in the universe is made up of these basic elements.
Like every other kid, I was huge fan of comics books and superheroes. I used to get comic books on rent. Raj comics, Manoj comics, Diamond comics and DC comics, I read all of them. The fact that stories in these books try to use as much of science as they could but I think the writer's understanding of the subject was a bit limited.
'Parmanu' from raj comics was another such super hero. I always thought that he was bald. But why am I talking about him on a science blog. The badge on Parmanu's chest is the Rutherford's model of an atom, his name Parmanu means atom in english and most interesting he can atomize. He can atomize , what does that even mean? Let me complete the blog you would get to know.
In 1997, we had our first superhero on television Shaktimaan, which aired on doordarshan in September that year at 12 noon for the first time.
It had a nice title song too, which most of us who saw the series would remember.
Like every superhero he had a girlfriend 'Geeta Vishwas' and a super-villain against him 'Tamraj Kilwis'.Shaktimaan had some amazing cool powers. He could control the elements of his body and divide into five different bodies made of fire, wind, water, earth and sky. Early Indian Philosophers classified matter in the form of five basic elements- Panch Tatva - air, earth, fire, sky and water. Our body and anything else in the universe is made up of these basic elements.
Like every other kid, I was huge fan of comics books and superheroes. I used to get comic books on rent. Raj comics, Manoj comics, Diamond comics and DC comics, I read all of them. The fact that stories in these books try to use as much of science as they could but I think the writer's understanding of the subject was a bit limited.
'Parmanu' from raj comics was another such super hero. I always thought that he was bald. But why am I talking about him on a science blog. The badge on Parmanu's chest is the Rutherford's model of an atom, his name Parmanu means atom in english and most interesting he can atomize. He can atomize , what does that even mean? Let me complete the blog you would get to know.
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