Life and other weird things

It has frustrated me since ages that Doordarshan has produced some of the best television programs ever, and then proceeded to just let them rot in their archives.

These examples are particularly live in my memory as having been great television mini series which I fear will be lost forever unless someone at DD has the good sense to bring them out in the form of CDs or DVDs :

> Buniyaad, Hum Log (Fantastic family stories)
> Kakaji Kahein (Om Puri's foray into television - first rate comedy)
> Karamchand (Pankaj Kapur's carrot chomping detective)
> Lekhu (Mohan Gokhale's immortal role of a talented simpleton)
> Stone Boy (don't remember much but something about a boy with supernatural powers)
> Indradhanush (about a group of boys who travel back in time to pre independance India)
> Byomkesh Bakshi (Brilliant serial by Basu Chatterjee which I feel is still not lost completely to memory)
> Mujrim Hajir (Utpal Dutt and Nutan's saga of 19th century Bengal. Terrific)
> Mungeri Lal ke Haseen Sapne (day dreaming saga starring Raghuveer Yadav)
> Mr Yogi (something about Mohan Gokhale playing a rich man searching for a simple wife)
> Bharat Ek Khonj (Shyam Benegal's adaptation of Nehru's Discovery Of India which I think will soon be out on DVD)
> Kissa Katmandu Ka (Starring Shammi Kapoor as Satyajit Ray's Feluda)

The frustrating thing is that each of these serials/TV series were phenomenally popular and the doyens at DD don't think it commercially worthwhile to sell these masterpieces on DVDs. Western TV series of much older times like 'The 3 Stooges' and 'I Love Lucy' from the 1950's and 1960's are widely popular till date because of DVD releases.

Frustrating.