Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 12th November 2010

Time : 10:30 am onwards

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Place : Main Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

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Event Details : Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day.
12 November – the day on which Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio in 1947 and addressed more than two lakhs of refugees at a camp in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day .
Commemoration Service 10.30 am to 11 am
Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza
Reading from Gandhi ji’s broadcast and presentation of songs by choirs from different schools of Delhi NCR
Recalling the role of Usha Mehta’s Underground Radio in the Quit India Movement and her arrest on 12 November 1942
Discussion 11:15 am to 1.00 pm
Auditorium
Asserting peoples ownership of the Airwaves
Core Presentation: Suhas Borker
Participants include broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, Academicians, activists, media persons and students of broadcast journalism from media institutions in Delhi and NCR
 Collaboration: Jan Prasar
Conference II, 6.30 pm
Fifth Annual Discussion on State of Parliamentary Democracy in India
Speakers:
Gopal Guru, Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Praful Bidwai, Independent Columnist and Activist
Sumit Chakravartty, Editor, Mainstream
Discussants: Interns, Lok Sabha
Moderator: Suhas Borker

Collaboration : Working Group on Alternative Strategies