Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day at Main Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 12th November 2011

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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.
Schedule : 11:00 am - 1:00 pm - Auditorium
Public Service Broadcasting Day commemorates the day in 1947 on which Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio to more than two lakhs of refugees at a camp in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration Service
Plaza at 10:30
■Gandhi-King
Reading from Gandhi ji’s broadcast and presentation of songs by choirs from different schools of Delhi and NCR.
Recall the role of Usha Mehta’s Underground Radio in the Quit India Movement and her arrest on 12 November 1942, by Ms Rita Mukerjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio
Remembering and honouring some Golden Voices of All India Radio
11:15 AM :
Who’s afraid of Public Service Broadcasting in India?
Core Presentation: Suhas Borker
Political Economy of Broadcasting in India
Speaker: Dr. Arun Kumar, Professor of Economics, JNU
Participants include broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists, media persons and students of broadcast journalism from media institutions in Delhi NCR

Collaboration : Jan Prasar and Working Group on Alternative Strategies

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