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Autonomy for Prasar Bharati Handicap or alibi?

AUTONOMY has two essential components: strategic and operational. While adopting the Board-managed form of organisation with absolute operational freedom and flexibility in decision-making,...

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Autonomy that got muted

IT was a momentous occasion when P Upendra, the then Minister for Information & Broadcasting in the National Front government, reeled out assurances...

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The dying media powerhouse

My interactions with Doordarshan started back in 1989, almost 25 years ago. I was a Senior Media Planner with Mudra Communications and it...

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The boiling cauldron

THE chorus for repeal of Prasar Bharati, the autonomous body that supervises Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR), suddenly seems to have...

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A hegemon in the making

IT was clear from the very beginning of this election campaign that NarendraModi is not a leader from the traditional mould. His rise...

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Dawn of a Naya Daur

JUNE 26, the day the Modi governmentcompleted a month in office, was also the 39th anniversary of the beginning of the darkest period...

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India’s ‘Modi’fied governance

WITHIN four days of taking office, 10 priorities, 100-day agenda, no FDI in retail but 100 per cent in defence! This is what...

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‘4C and 1R’ syndrome

DESPITE the mandate for change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not going to find it easy to contain price rise, inflation, fiscal deficit...

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The ‘Single Directive’ and after

EVEN at the cost of stating the obvious, it must be reiterated that, in a democratic set-up, the political executive must take decisions...

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A challenge for Modi

A new government with new polity, new priorities, new hope and new promises, with ‘Governance for Development’ as its guiding principle, has assumed...