If you are a ’90s kid who grew up in India, chances are that the superheroes you idolised were straight out of your bulky TV sets that had just begun airing the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Karna, Arjun, Ram, Lakshman and Draupadi were among the many idols in Indian mythology who could achieve the impossible, way before Superman, Batman or Captain America became familiar names in desi households. And a new Spotify Original Hindi podcast, Superheroes of Indian Mythology, which launched last week, aims to familiarise the new generation with these desi superheroes, and impart lessons from their lives.

Nitin Kakkar