{"id":999979,"date":"2026-03-30T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999979"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:01:13","slug":"indian-folklore-being-retold-one-game-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/30\/indian-folklore-being-retold-one-game-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian folklore being retold, one game at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, God of War and Prince of Persia. Developers are now increasingly focusing on video games rooted in Indian culture and mythology, which is a significant slice of what they call the $1-billion \u2018eastern myth\u2019 market. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, India has let others tell its stories\u2026 Look at what happened with Kung Fu Panda or The Jungle Book. Western studios took Eastern culture, sanitised it, and sold it back to the world,\u201d said Nicolas Granatino, executive chairman of Tara Gaming, a studio that is making The Age of Bhaarat, a \u2018fantasy\u2019 game deeply rooted in a historical epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, God of War and Prince of Persia. Developers are now increasingly focusing on video games rooted in Indian culture and mythology, which is a significant slice of what they call the $1-billion \u2018eastern myth\u2019 market. \u201cFor too long, India has let others tell its stories\u2026 Look at what happened with Kung Fu Panda or The Jungle Book. Western studios took Eastern culture, sanitised it, and sold it back to the world,\u201d said Nicolas Granatino, executive chairman of Tara Gaming, a studio that is making The Age of Bhaarat, a \u2018fantasy\u2019 game deeply rooted in a historical epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}