Bringing Down India’s Biggest Art Thief | Bloomberg Investigates

In a remote village temple in India, a gang of thieves pulled off a daring heist of some of the nation's most precious cultural heritage. Two citizen detectives joined forces to bring down the mastermind behind one of the biggest art thefts in history.

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[garvitdhingra]

I am usually really disapointed by US or British documentaries about India but I am actually really Impressed. Amazing work please make more I think there is a huge market for content like this.

[sebastiangruenfeld]

The biggest thief of Indian art is the British Museum

[devendrawarke]

I used to ride around Southern India to visit Ancient Temples and Ruins for the love of History.
There had been many many instances when we reached a remote ruin that was nothing but an empty chamber, we used to think this might have been a case of destruction by invaders but it was'nt just them who ruined our history and present but it is also these petty criminals like kapoor who are slowly eroding our culture and history.
Thank you to people like Mr Vijay for helping us get these artifacts back

[srinivasanpartha]

You missed Honest IPS Officer Pon Manickavel, he brought back many idols and being a devout Hindu, he made sure the idols are back in respective Temples and not in Museums. Due to his efforts 1000s of idols were recovered. But he was punished by the bureaucracy for his honesty and tales were spun and he retired without claiming any glory for his efforts.

[LILSLB]

I really thought this was a video on British museum

[FoodConnoisseurCook]

British Museum is basically indian chor bazar 2.0

[MR-xlni]

Shame on the art museums buying
India 's treasured and revered idols and art without questioning. When they are presented with the truth they conveniently doubt the truth for fear of losing the artifacts. Greed is 'the' factor here.

[MAC-vify]

Its not the "idol" rather the murthi that's important. Its what is stands for that is. Its a symbol of the community, the culture, the history and the sense of belonging for the place.

[koushik]

"ONE PILLAGED IDOL IS TOO MANY ...." what a statement ...kudos to him

[deepakkamath]

Salutes to all investigators from India and the US

[Abhi]

The fact that he was Indian himself is really saddening

[starks]

Tamilnadu government don't do anything regarding this issue

[kaycey]

South india is the treasure chest of india. SOUTH indian art is so beautiful.❤

[InternetExplorer-x]

This is Bloomberg Originals Gold. I would like to see more such documentaries.

[jimsteinberg]

Fascinating and original journalism. Thx

[TheAhamedabdul]

Then what do we call The British Empire 🤣

[bprmel]

Got Goosebumps 👌what a pioneering work. Time for central government to form an apex body to work with this probono workers. Provide money, legal support and police to bring back history 🙏great work 🌟

[Mahadevan]

There was also a top politician involved, in smuggling antiquities, via Tamil Nadu Airport.

[urbanstrencan]

What a operation, really started thinking about how many museums and galleries have stolen items in them

[A.l.tecchz]

Thanks bloomberg for covering this....