[cr-india] July 23 * India's 75th year of broadcasting

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear friends, Padma Prakash of the Economic and Political Weekly has
pointed out to me that July 23 marks the 75th anniversary of broadcasting
in India.
Maybe we could -- should? -- think of contributing a series of articles so
that EPW could run that as a 'special' on the occasion. Please get in
touch with Padma (with a copy to me, just for information) on this
subject.
Sorry for not replying Padma, I don't seem to have received your earlier
mail. Maybe my mailbox is simply too cluttered. FN

On Tue, 28 May 2002 padma at epw.org.in wrote:


> Hi Fred
> did you receive the following mail?  looking forward to your reply.
> regards,
> padma
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <padma at epw.org.in>
> To: Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Linking a diverse country: mailing-lists in India
> 
> 
> > Dear Fred,
> > Great!That would be very  nice. i think in communication studies circles
> too
> > radio has been much neglected. And depending on the kind of
> papers/articles
> > we get we could decide about how they would appear--whether a special
> issue
> > or a special collection of either academic papers which could go into the
> > Special articles section, or of commentary length contributions--as we do
> > for commentary specials on the budget. Where are the people who are
> looking
> > into these issues? In India? As you will have realised we will be of
> little
> > help. If i have or get anything on the issue i will let you know.
> > regards,
> > padma
> > > From: Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org>
> > To: <padma at epw.org.in>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: Linking a diverse country: mailing-lists in India
> >
> >
> > Why don't we do a special issue on radio in India. There are many issues
> > -- freedom, democratisation of the airwaves, virtual censorship by the
> > government, the Prasar Bharati and commercial FM failures (despite the
> > growth of FM in Bombay)... we could get enough contributors to put
> > together a good issue. FN
> >
> > On Tue, 14 May 2002 padma at epw.org.in wrote:
> >
> >
> > > thanks Fred
> > > Incidentally, one of our contributors has just pointed out-- in some
> other
> > > connection-- that  July 23, 2002 will mark  75 years of broadcasting in
> > > India! But of course don't treat *that* as a deadline!
> > > regards,
> > > padma