Rudra

Puchu hopes for a brighter future for his son, Rudra, five, - a future in uniform as a policeman.

But it will likely take decades or more for India to completely wean itself off Russian military hardware, said Rudra Chaudhuri, director of Carnegie India, the New Delhi arm of the international think tank.

The second season of Panchayat was also listed as the third most watched - after Rudra: The Edge of Darkness and season three of Aashram - and had the most audience recall, according to a new report.

“It will take time for outcomes to realize their full potential,” said Rudra Chaudhuri, director of Carnegie India.

Rudra Sondhi, a freshman at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, started using his grandmother’s digital camera because it seemed like a happy medium between film cameras and smartphones.