India, Oct. 15 -- Ramesh Sippy's Buniyaad, Doordarshan's landmark Partition saga, streams on YouTube starting October 15. Kiran Joneja says it is for Gen Z. For the rest of us, it is a homecoming, says Sujoy Dhar.

Some television you watch. Some you inhabit. For a generation of Indians, Buniyaad was the second kind.

When it first aired on Doordarshan in 1986, there was no scrolling, no second screen and no "watch later." There was one set in the house, one channel worth fighting over, and a family arranged around it.

Our parents watched, and so did our grandparents. The Partition they had lived through, or fled, or buried in silence, had suddenly found a voice in the living room. Three generations sat on the same sofa and, for once, ta...