10 Stories That Changed That Changed in Our Lifetime ; It's a Country Forever Seething with Change, Where the Old Doesn't Give Way to the New, but Subsumes It Like a Juggernaut.
India Today › December 24, 2008
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It's a country forever seething with change, where the old doesn't give way to the new, but subsumes it like a juggernaut. The stories never stopped coming, the pages remained as alive and vibrant as the nation. Some narratives turned around completely in time, from the telephone-waiting of the 1980s to the call-waiting of the 1990s, and from the blood of Bluestar to the peace of Punjab.
Others were bizarre in a very Indian way: monkey men, milk- drinking idols, weapons falling from the sky and an alchemist of petrol. Politics remained a theme, ebbing and flowing with elections and defections,spawning enduring slogans and convenient deals.Security had its failures, but there were profiles in courage and portraits of valour. Great speeches were delivered; other things were better left unsaid. India Today was there,capturing every mood, telling every tale, chronicling every moment.See the full content of this document
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10 Stories That Changed That Changed in Our Lifetime ; It's a Country Forever Seething with Change, Where the Old Doesn't Give Way to the New, but Subsumes It Like a Juggernaut.
Television went from monolith to multiplicity. Mrs Gandhi went from chief despot to supreme saviour and our stories somersaulted to keep up with the change.Ten stories that did an about turn on our pages.
OUT OF THE BOX From the monopolistic, monochromatic Doordarshan, India moved to 24-hour tamasha newsAll India had to offer in the initial years of television was the lacklustre Doordarshan that hardly provided any entertainment. It was in the 1980s that the Government finally woke up to the power of its broadcasting monopoly.The Government is suddenly rushing to make up for lost time in expanding the tentacles of Doordarshan.The sizeable swelling of Doordarshan's budget in 1980-81 to 1982...See the full content of this document
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