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Janmashatami - An article by Jawhar Sircar

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Historical account of Janmasthami published in Anand Bazar Patrika, 25 Aug: English version

Krishna is definitely a fascinating subject for numerous scholars, whether religious or atheist, but he troubles historians the most. Contrary to normal belief, Krishna is not mentioned in the Vedas, and with great difficulty, we find his first undisputed mention as a character only in the Chhandogya Upanishad of the seventh century BC. He is also cited in the later Taittirya Aranyaka but there is no refernce to his birth-legend. This makes entry more than a thousand years later, in the Vishnu Puran and the Hari- vamsa of the 3rd or 4th centuries of the Christian Era. 

In between, we do get some stray references in a few sacred narratives, but Krishna was certainly not portrayed as the great God that he became in later tradition. Janmashtami is not mentioned as a popular celebration and Krishna himself is completely overshadowed for several centuries by Vasudeva and BalaramaSankarsana. They were more powerful deities and Krishna was only their junior coalition partner till roughly the 4th century AD, ie, the Gupta period. Once Mahabharata and Gita came out in their final shape, Krishna emerged more prominently as the supreme Vaishnava challenge to rival Shivaism, and he subsumed both Vasudeva and Balarama into his own legend. We have a lot of evidence in Gupta and post-Gupta sculpture portraying the miraculous deeds of the divine child. Basically, they valorise him as the mascot of the new settled pastoral civilisation that rose on the banks of the Yamuna. Motifs like Krishna holding Govardhana hill over his head to protect his people against torrential rain is taken as evidence by eminent scholars like DD Kosambi and Jan Gonda (Yan Khonda), to represent the victory of the god of darker people over the hitherto-omnipotent god of wandering animal-grazing 'Aryan' tribes...............
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Radio Listeners Day at Yavatmal, Mahrashtra - Our listeners are our great assets

I&B ministry to organize film festival ahead of BRICS summit

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Ahead of the eighth BRICS summit to be held in Panaji, Goa on 16 and 17 October, the government will conduct a five-day film festival in Delhi, where four movies each from BRICS nations will be screened.BRICS is a grouping of five large emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.The festival will open on 2 September with the world premiere of the Malayalam movie Veeram, directed by national award winner Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair, the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry said. The festival will be held at Delhi’s Siri Fort auditorium complex.In five days, 20 movies will be showcased in a competition section to be judged by a five-member panel. Apart from Veeram, India will showcase S.S. Rajamouli directed Baahubali— The Beginning, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone-starrer Bajirao Mastani, Kaushik Ganguly directed Cinemawala and Raam Reddy directed Thithi.

“BRICS film festival would be a bioscope that would showcase distinct cultures, cuisines and arts from the participating countries. A step taken to build bridges and bring harmony amongst the BRICS countries, the festival would ensure more people-to-people contact between member countries especially youth,” I&B minister M. Venkaiah Naidu told reporters.The festival will close on 6 September with the Chinese movie Skiptrace starring Jackie Chan.Apart from films, the ministry has also organized a craft fair in which the member nations will put up souvenirs and other articles for sale. “Exclusive cuisines from all the BRICS nations would also be available at the food court arranged in the festival venue,” the ministry said in a statement.

The festival will also stage performances by the Chengdu Performing Arts Theatre (China), Theatre Leningrad Centre Dreams of Russia and MBZ Music Production (South Africa).The BRICS summit is expected to attract 900 delegates from member countries. According to the statement issued by the ministry, India has planned activities like an under-17 football tournament, a youth summit and a young diplomats’ forum at the summit.India’s emphasis would be on institution-building and implementation of commitments from past summits, besides exploring synergies among the various existing and established framework mechanisms of the BRICS, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had said on 22 March.


Forwarded By:- Jainendar Nigam, PB News Desk,prasarbharati.newsdesk@gmail.com

7th Godrej No1 DD Sahyadri Cine Awards

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7th Godrej No1 DD Sahyadri Cine Awards continue to make waves. The celebs who all were invited came dot on time. The auditorium was chockablock with nominees, awardees and guests of DD Sahyadri who have been an ardent supporter of the channel...

Source : Mukesh Sharma

The Doordarshan Divas

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Avijit Ghosh meets the first faces of TV - before the era of breaking news.

At a time when viewers couldn't switch channels because there was only one, when the infuriating Rookawat ke liye khed hai was the most common one-liner on the small screen and when streets were deserted on Sunday because everybody was watching the evening movie, they read out news on Doordarshan. They were not the attitude girls or the know-it-all boys who shove news down our throats these days. They were an older, less aggressive breed; much like family friends who dropped by for a fireside chat every night. When they read out news, it was like they were shaking hands with you. Tejeshwar Singh, Salma Sultan, Neethi Ravindran, JB Raman, Shammi Narang, Manjari Joshi, Rini Khanna, Komal GB Singh, Usha Albuquerque, Ramu Damodaran, Sunit Tandon, Gitanjali Aiyar, Minu - who will read the news in English and Hindi tonight? The question often popped up at dinner table conversations. Every newsreader had a distinctive style. You could close your eyes and make out who was reading the news. Some of them seemed to have an endless wardrobe of ethnic saris and earrings. Much like the heroines of the prime-time soaps today, their attire was discussed and imitated by middle-aged women across the country. Salma Sultan's trademark was a rose worn low in her hair. "It wasn't meant to be a style statement. We just did our bit to look good onscreen. But when I appeared a few times without the rose, there was a flood of protest letters. All of them wanted the rose back," she recalls.

Small-town sari sellers would be besieged with befuddling requests: "Woh sari jo Avinash Kaur ne pichhle Somwar ko TV par pehni thi, waisa dikhaiye (The sari that Avinash Kaur wore last Monday on TV. Show us something like that). And in Spoken English classes, students would be instructed to listen, and if possible record on tape, the English news read out by Tejeshwar Singh, Neethi Ravindran and others. "Listen to their diction. Try to speak the same way," teachers said. Students obeyed. The pay packet wasn't much. Salma Sultan, who read news on DD between 1967 and 1997, says she made about Rs 2,000 a month in her early years. But there were pleasures that money couldn't buy. The DD newsreaders were among the most recognisable faces in the country. Ravindran, who read news on DD between 1976 and 2001, recalls how a little village boy by a roadside dhaba in Rajasthan identified her and shouted, "News, news". Sunit Tandon, who describes himself as the "last of the dinosaurs" because he read out news as recently as May 2007, remembers the occasion when an Indian restaurant owner in Paris forced him inside and insisted he eat something. There was plenty of fan mail and phone calls too. A harassed husband once pleaded with Sultan not to turn up in a new sari every day. "My wife makes similar demands that I cannot meet," he wrote. Shammi Narang recalls how an aging retired government employee wrote asking for help to get his pension. "Perhaps we were perceived as powerful people who could get things done," he says. Not everything was rosy though. Back in the Seventies and Eighties, both DD and AIR were commonly perceived as the mouthpiece of the government. Visuals often meant watching the Union I&B minister cut a ribbon or lay a foundation stone. Events such as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were sanitised. "I was often asked at parties or weddings, do you read out lies. I always told them, no, we just hide the truth," says Narang, who owns an audio recording studio.

Tandon, who works now with Loksabha TV, points out that it helped that DD had no competition and that they had a captive audience. Most of the news was read out rather than illustrated through visuals. "Which meant you got to see more of the presenter," says Ravindran, who does a lot of compering now. Narang feels lucky to have been one of the "right persons at the right time". In the early Nineties, with the onset of satellite television, Doordarshan lost its exclusivity. With competition, it was time to evolve. By the late Nineties, the newsreaders were required to upgrade themselves as news anchors. Their new job profile required them to be on the ball with national and international politics. "Not everybody was able to adapt," says Tandon. Consequently, some fell through the cracks. Others had by then developed new pursuits. Do they miss the good old days? Narang offers an honest answer. "No, I relish those days. I would have been a misfit in the modern set-up," he says. It's been years since most of them last read out the news though some such as Ravindran, Tandon, Narang and others do voice-overs and compere shows. Yet they have not been forgotten. At a recent function in Chhattisgarh, Narang was surprised to find the governor mention his name in the speech. "Actress Preity Zinta was there too. But the fact that he chose to mention me and spoke positively about our Doordarshan days made me feel good," he says. The old newscasters are almost like an informal select club. Sometimes they still get together on occasions such as a wedding. In the photograph they are smiling at Gitanjali Aiyar's daughter's wedding. "Those gatherings are great fun," says Tandon. Last month it was different though. They met at Tejeshwar Singh's funeral. That was a piece of news nobody would have liked to read out.

Source and Credit :-  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/The-Doordarshan-Divas/articleshow/2677780.cms

AIR to document Kolu Hoyyuva Padagalu in Mandarti on August 27, 28

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The Mangaluru station of the All India Radio (AIR) will be organising a two-day workshop to record and document the folk songs Kolu Hoyyuva Padagalu of Kundagannada region in Udupi district at the Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple at Mandarti village on August 27 and 28.Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Vasanth Kumar Perla, Assistant Station Director, said that the Kolu Hoyyuva Padagalu were Samaskara Geethe or songs sung during various occasions, including birth, marriage and death.

During their research on this matter, the team from AIR found that these songs were sung in the Kunnadagannada region, mostly on the banks of Varahi river.It was interesting to note that a Dalit community had taken up the responsibility of moral sentinel and once in a year, in the month of Kodi (roughly November-December) gave a moral dressing down to all castes.A team of three women of Upparasetty community, a sub-sect of Mera caste, used to visit the houses of each and every caste in a given village imparting moral lesson – a lesson on imbibing samaskara, and most importantly, treading the righteous path – truth, justice, morality and benevolence. Two women sing the verses for the quaint clashes of “two-for-each” sticks (Kolata).

According to their convenience of the moment, either one or two sing and one or two chime with a palavi, Kolu Kolenni Hoogina Kolu Kole.The songs are highly lyrical, poetic and melodious. They are critical yet harmonious. Historically, it was known as Hoogina Kolu.But in the recent past, when Navaratri Chikkamela of Yakshagana started calling itself Hoovina Kolu, confusion set it. The Dalit community was forced to coin a new term— Kolu Hoyyuva Padagalu— for the tradition it invented and developed.

AIR’s objective was to recognise the historical relevance of the art and artistes and bring it before the present generation, giving due respect and credit to the creators and propagators. And most, importantly, to harness the harmonious, tolerant, lyrical, poetic language the community developed over the years to show as a model for other modes of expression. “Our aim is not just collecting songs. We want artistes to come from various places, assemble in one place and see their fellow singers, many of who they never met before. On our part, we want to relieve the wisdom and poetry enshrined in the songs all over again and save them posterity,” Mr. Perla said.

Devu Hanehalli, workshop coordinator, Sadananda Holla, programme coordinator, were present.


Forwarded By:- Jainendar Nigam, PB News Desk,prasarbharati.newsdesk@gmail.com

Vidyanjali - Bringin together people willing to volunteer their services at schools which really need them

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Vidyanjali - (School Volunteer Programme) is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education & Literacy to enhance community and private sector involvement in Government run elementary schools across the country under the overall aegis of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

This programme has been envisaged to bring together people willing to volunteer their services at schools which really need them. The volunteers will act as mentors, confidantes and communicators with children.

In consonance with this objective, MyGov in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development has developed a mobile application for schools and other educational institutions to engage interested citizens in volunteering for such on-ground engagements.

The application will enable interested volunteers to connect with government educational institutions including schools to mentor students. This mobile application would act as a nexus between the volunteers and government bodies under a Volunteer Management Program. Through this mobile application, mentors can interact with institutions directly and can contribute in the institution’s activity with relevant knowledge and skill set.

The application is an interactive mobile platform which facilitates communication between the two stakeholders helping institutions to post their academic and non-academic requirements seeking suitable volunteers for the specified role. The prospective volunteers, users of the application, would be able to show their interest based on the available volunteering opportunities viewing the list ordered basis fetched user location. The application would boast of a separate dashboard for institutions and volunteers both, which would be inclusive of a map enabling feature of locating both the institution and the volunteer. The exact locations of volunteers and institutions would be view-able through pin markers on the map.

The volunteer application would allow two-way search from the end of both the stakeholders. A volunteer would be able to seek activities and show his/her interest in the listed activities. Similarly, an institution would be able to search for volunteers who are using the app meeting their requirement, request for a volunteer, review a volunteer profile, and schedule a meeting for further action and appointment.

Hence, the application would help connect keen volunteers with educational institutions for being able to associate and work with the institution on need basis plugging in the vacant spaces. This would not only bring satisfaction to the volunteers but also make the students’ experience seamless. An application to this effect would serve as a successful and innovative alternative to resolve temporary issues of missing or incompetent human resource faced by educational institutions.....

Obituary - S Ramesh,(50), DDG(E) O/o ADG(SZ) Chennai passed away

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Shri S Ramesh, Dy. Director General (E), O/o ADGE (SZ), Chennai passed away early morning at 0300 hrs on 26 August 2016 at Apollo Hospital at Chennai. He was in CCU from 17 August 2016. Shri Ramesh was a Direct recruit UPSC officer belonging to Indian Broadcasting(Engineering) Service. He was a very able officer and had served at DDK Thiruvanthapuram and DDK Bhopal too. He belonged to the family patrons of Uthralikkavu Temple Complex (a very famous temple near Trichur). 

By his sudden, unexpected demise, We have lost a great Personality; Phenomenal Humane, Administrator and Engineer. It is a great loss to organization and his family. Hundreds of condolence messages have started pouring in. Typical one -' I am not able to believe this shocking news! Ramesh sir were such a nice person. I can't forget his soft voice and smiling face.'


Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO PB has condoled the demise of S. Ramesh. He wrote " I am very really very sorry to hear about the said demise of Shri S. Ramesh. I know him a bit. He was very young.. Please extend whatever help is required from our end and convey my deepest condolences to his family...."

Shri OK Sharma, Acting E-in-C, Doordarshan has sent his condolence letter  stating that at this time of despair our Deptt stands with the bereaved family and will always be ready for any help.

PB Parivar pray to God to give peace to the departed soul in the heaven and give strength to the family to bear the unexpected loss.

Obituary - MC Aggarwal, fromer E-in-Chief AIR passed away

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Shri M. C. Aggarwal, former Engineer in Chief All India Radio passed away today, on 26.08.2016. Shri Aggarwal was not keeping well for quite some time.

Shri Aggarwal was a 1972 batch IB(E)S Officer, graduated from BITS, Pillani. Shri Aggarwal had been actively involved in the planning and design of MW, SW & FM transmitting systems of All India Radio for about 25 years. Shri Aggarwal had also made valuable contribution in Doordarshan by conceptualizing and implementing 30 DTH channels of Doordarshan in a time-bound manner, which was later extended to 50 channels under his supervision and guidance. Shri Aggarwal also worked as the Head of the Planning & Development Unit of All India Radio, which is responsible for implementing the grand plan for digitalization of All India Radio in India, before getting elevated to the post of Engineer-in-Chief. He is remembered as an utmost honest and upright officer in AIR fraternity.

PB Parivar condoles the demise of Shri MC Aggarwal and prays to the almighty for the peace of departed soul.

Fayyaz Sheheryar, Director Genearal All India Radio condoled the demise of Shri MC Aggarwal and wrote -
"The death of Mr M C Aggarwal comes to me like a thunderbolt. V have worked together in Doordarshan Headquarters where I found in him a self-respecting, intrepid broadcast engineer of high calibre. When he & I were peers albeit in 2 different streams, We had a despot on our head suffering from incurable cynicism.
In an uncongenial atmosphere marked by asphyxiation, MCA spoke when most of his colleagues chose silence, he advocated changing technology for fast changing India when the then masters understood just the revenue generation at the expense of much cherished Public Service Broadcasting. A time came when he was axed & removed from DD. He stood by what he said & the broadcaster did adopt what he was victimised for but only when Aggarwal Sahib was disabled by neurological breakdown. And today, he embraces his creator after spending a moribund existence of years.
GOD BLESS HIS SOUL."

Online ham radio sale triggers terror alarm

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Police and veteran ham radio operators in Kolkata are worried over the unrestricted online sale of these amateur radio sets, which can be used to tune into any frequency for unmonitored communication. Kolkata Police is particularly wary of the sets being used by northeast-based terror outfits and even Islamic State modules in neighbouring Bangladesh. While ham radio frequency is between 144 MHz and 146 MHz, some of the sets being sold over online retail platforms like Amazon India, eBay and ShopYourWorld have a much wider frequency spectrum that can be exploited by terror modules to communicate with each other. Cops in the state have received intelligence alerts about ham sets being used by the militant group Kamtapur Liberation Organization, which has a presence in north Bengal. The Chinese ham radio sets being sold online have a frequency spectrum of 136 MHz to 174 MHz that covers weather satellites, amateur ham, police and marine. Sets with such powerful transmitting capacity in the wrong hands make the country vulnerable to subversive activities, says Indranil Majumdar, licensed amateur radio operator and an electronics engineer. Frequency is allocated globally as per the International Frequency Allocation Plan released by the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, to which India is a signatory. India then decides which frequencies it will allot to whom through the National Frequency Allocation Plan. "The radio sets being sold online are called Ham radio sets because these wireless gadgets are pre-programmed to transmit and receive voice communication over frequencies designated for Ham operators. But they can easily be re-programmed to transmit and receive voice messages on other frequencies," warned Arya Ghosh, former secretary of Bengal Amateur Radio Society and member of American Radio Relay League.

Ghosh has lodged a complaint with the International Wireless Monitoring Station (IWMS) in Kolkata, highlighting the security concerns. IWMS engineer-incharge Rajesh Dora acknowledged receiving the complaint and said it was being forwarded to senior officials in the department of telecommunication. "If Ham radios with greater capability do get into hands of undesirable persons, it can pose a serious problem," said Dora. Kolkata Police is wary about the online sale. "State intelligence has been warning us that illegal radio sets are being used by the KLO to keep in touch with north-east based terror organizations. The very fact that even IS is looking at all forms of communication devices to link its organization in India and Bangladesh, we cannot take chances," said a senior STF official. Vishal Garg, joint CP (STF), said his team was in regular contact with Ham operators. "We are sure any illegal use of this communication device will be brought to our notice by them," he said. Security agencies said they already have inputs on how illegal telephone operators, working from unauthorised centres in and around Kolkata and other parts of the country on unapproved band-widths and with smuggled handsets, are tapping into the same air frequency used by Ham operators. However, there is some ambiguity over when and how they can intervene. Ham operators said online sales can take place but merchants have to take the onus of collecting the copy of ham radio licence after verification at the time of delivery . "They should maintain a separate database of those customers buying Ham radio sets with licence proof and additionally with the ID proof of the customer," said Ghosh, adding that the ministry should ask merchants for the list of customers and contact details of customers who have purchased Ham radio without licence and ask merchants to make necessary arrangements to bring back the sets after refunding money .

Source and credit:- http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Online-ham-radio-sale-triggers-terror-alarm/articleshow/53836502.cmsand 
Facebook account of Shri. Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi. alokeshgupta@gmail.com

Soaring on Guru Bhakthi.

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Versatile classical vocalist and guru Mangad Natesan, recipient of this year’s Swati Puraskaram, talks about honing his skills under stalwarts such as Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer.“Is it not a great blessing to be awarded a Puraskaram, the first recipient of which was my Guru,” was veteran musician Mangad Natesan’s reaction when he learnt that he was the recipient of the Swati Puraskaram of the Government of Kerala for the year 2015. When the Swati Puraskaram was instituted by the Government in 1997, the award committee was unanimous in selecting maestro Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer for the honour. A living symbol of ‘guru bhakti,’ Natesan remembered how he was groomed by a galaxy of legends with Semmangudi at the helm in his capacity as Principal of the Sri Swathi Thirunal College of Music in Thiruvananthapuram. They included C.S. Krishna Iyer, K.S. Narayana Swamy, K.R. Kumaraswamy, M.G. Seetharama Iyer and Hariharan. Natesan holds that it was their combined efforts that moulded the musician in him. “Semmangudi advised us to follow Krishna Iyer closely, saying that his full-throated singing would inspire us,” Natesan reminisced. According to him, this team was instrumental for the renaissance of Carnatic music in Kerala. Maestros such as Vina Sambasiva Iyer, Ariyakudi Ramanujam Iyengar, M.S. Subbulakshmi, T. Brinda and T. Muktha were invited to sing at the college. “The students benefited considerably from the live concerts of these icons of Carnatic musicians.”

Small wonder then that for the young boy from Mangad in Kollam district, born with an innate passion for music, the college was a dream come true. What triggered his interest in classical music was his exposure to annual concerts in the nearby Sree Kumarapuram temple near his home. The temple music festival attracted rasikas from distant places. Apart from classical concerts, Nagaswaram concerts and Harikatha recitals by famous exponents were regularly staged at the venue. There used to be elaborate discussions on their performances to which Natesan listened closely. An insatiable urge for music was naturally created in him that was further whetted by listening to gramophone records of M.S. Subbulakshmi, Musiri Subramania Iyer, Chembai Vaidyanatha Iyer and Ariyakudi. Post Ganabhushanam from the college, Natesan longed for Gurukula learning, which he still considers the most ideal mode of education for all art forms of Indian origin. But times had changed. The only option was hard work that lasted for several years. B-Grade and B-High from AIR followed before he joined the Thrissur Station of All India Radio in 1975 as a staff artiste. His services to the station were exemplary in terms of innumerable concerts in the annual programme of Radio Sangeetha Sammelan. In course of time, A-Top grade followed. Encomiums chased him even from the Madras Music Academy. The title of Sangeetha Kala Acharya was conferred on him by the Academy, apart from Akademi awards and fellowships. The last such accolade was the Chembai Puraskaram from Guruvayur Devaswom. Radio listeners across Kerala still cherish the memory of Natesan’s lessons aired through ‘Sangeetha Padham’ (music lessons). In this respect, his role as a guru is unparalleled. Many outstanding performers and music teachers of today are his disciples. He has no regrets that some of them have migrated to light music. But what baffles the octogenarian musician is the absence of young talents on the concert platform.

“Look at the number of young talents who are rolled out of the diploma mill of universities and other institutions of music. No sabhas or even governmental agencies give them opportunities. They always go after musicians from outside Kerala. This is reprehensible,” he rued. A stickler for tradition, Natesan is endowed with a rich repertoire and his concerts are marked by inimitable creativity. Though not active in concerts nowadays owing to poor health, musicians both young and old frequent his home for wise counsel and guidance. Radio listeners across the State still cherish the memory of Natesan’s lessons aired through ‘Sangeetha Padham’ (music lessons), the beneficiaries of which have been legion.

Source and Credit :- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/soaring-on-guru-bhakthi/article9033554.ece
Forwarded by :- Shri. Jainendra Nigam, PB News Desk ,prasarbharati.newsdesk@gmail.com

Knowledge sharing session conducted in AIR Pune.

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In 100 kW MW HPT Hadapsar, AIR Pune a knowledge sharing session was conducted on 25th August, 2016. Four groups were formed to deliver knowledge on different subjects. Each group comprised three staff members. Digital Modulation, WI-max, PSTN and ISDN, Spectrum Analyser were the topics on which Power Point presentations were shown and group discussion was carried out. Shri. Ashish Bhatnagar, DDG (Engg.) and Head of Office was appreciated the session. Mrs. Sangeeta Upadhye ADE organised this session. Every month such session shall be organised to cope up with new technology. Shri. Devidas Sudame ADE, Shri. Ranjekar, AE and Shri. Paradkar, AE also attended this session along with staff members. 

ADP of Doordarshan Sri N M Satapathy conferred with Award.

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Senior ADP of Doordarshan Bhubaneswar, and president of Bhubaneswar Bhanja Bharati, an ambassador of both culture and literature Sri N M Satapathy is extolled with magna cum laude and conferred with an elysian title BHAAGAVATA MITRA on an auspicious and spiritual platform, unique of its type in presence of other erudite personalities and orators before an applauding gathering.

PB Parivar congratulates Shri. N M Satapathy.

Source :- Facebook account of  Shri. Krushna Keshab Sarangi.

Many Retired and working colleagues attend funeral of Late MC Agarwal, former EnC, AIR

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Last rites of M.C. Aggarwal, who had expired on 26.08.2016 were performed today. His funeral was held at sector - 29, Gurgaon, NCR today at 11.00 hrs.


About 25 of our colleagues were present during the cremation ceremony. Retired engineering officers included S/Sh R.K.Gupta, R.K.Jain, Ghanshyam, V.K.Singla, AV Swaminathan, HK Wadhwa, Mukul Tyagi, T.P.Singh, D.P. Singh, UN Anand, SS Bindra, P.S.Sundaram, Kailash Chand, KN Yadav, BB Sharma and Mahesh Prasad among others. Working officers included Shri P. Das, Pradeep Mehra, Rajender Kumar, RK Jain and PK Singh, who represented AIR and DD Engineers Association as it's President and Broadcast Engineering Society(I) as it's Hon. Secretary.

Later speaking to the Blog, Shri PK Singh stated that BES could timely confer the BES Life time Achievement Award on Shri MC Aggarwal by the hands of the Nobel laureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi on 12 November, 2014, which he feels as one of the satisfying moments of his tenure. Hundreds of condolence messages have been received and the post of demise of MC Aggarwal has been read by over two thousand persons on PB Parivar blog. This clearly speaks of The Personality, The Life he lived - Bold, Upright and Straightforward. It is well said - Life should be Big not just Long...

Impact - Mann Ki Baat makes dream of Sakshi, a class IX student of Navi Mumbai, come true....

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Inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks and being a regular listener of Mann Ki Baat, a class IX student of Navi Mumbai, Sakshi Tiwari wrote a letter to Modi complaining of having no playground in her school.......

Taking into consideration Sakshi’s request, Modi wrote to the regional head of CIDCO to make the playground available. Sakshi thanked the Prime Minister for his prompt action. School kids are more than happy by this move of the government.......
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Read full story at :
http://www.india.com/news/india/narendra-modi-orders-cidco-to-make-playground-following-class-9-students-letter-1438645/
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http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/metro/mumbai/politics/student-sakshi-tiwari-writes-a-letter-to-pm-modi/articleshow/53865490.cms

Thank you for the music.

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Those were the days The radio was a constant companion
Sangeeet Sarita announces a voice and I start. The last time I heard that was many, many years ago. It was my cue to groan as my Dad fine-tuned the radio, increased the volume and waited expectantly for me to guess the raga of the song playing. The programme picked one classical raga every day and played a filmy song and a pure classical number based on it. I got the raga wrong every single time, but Daddy did not lose faith. Now it is back in my life. Not just Sangeet Sarita, but Vividh Bharti. So if you drop in home in the mornings, we will serve you good coffee and a blast of music. Raju has downloaded the Vividh Bharati app and, as we have gifted ourselves a Bose speaker for our anniversary this year, we are stoked. Such a wonderfully civilised way to start the day. And I swear I am less cranky with all the singing I do along with Rafi, Kishore, Asha, Geeta Dutt and of course Raju. Then we managed to catch an interview of Ameen Sayani on television and Raju and I are still talking about that. Remember Binaca Geetmala? Wednesday nights and Ameen Sayani would start with his signature greeting of “Bhaiyon aur behenon...” Binaca Geetmala was broadcast on Wednesdays at 9.00 p.m. on Radio Ceylon and the entire family huddled around the radio set. One of us had to hold the knob of the radio firmly so that it would not shift and change the station. There were heated discussions and guessing games on what the ‘sartaj geet’ was going to be (the top of the charts of those days) that year. Hearing Ameen Sayani’s voice brought back glorious memories of simple pleasures. Raju remembers how, during Pujas for the evening entertainment programme, an Ameen Sayani sound-alike was hired to conduct the proceedings.

I wish the radio as I knew it as a child would back into my life. I was thrilled when WorldSpace started and heartbroken when it stopped. I enjoy music floating through the house. Love it when I can sing along loudly from the kitchen. I have bought iPods, and MP3s and earphones but abandoned all those because I hate something stuck into my ears with the wires getting tangled with my spectacles, buttons, etc. When ‘Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hai’ is playing, what is the point if only I can hear it? Raju has to be in on it too, along with our neighbours. The unpredictability of what song will play next on the radio is thrilling. It is not some playlist which we know by heart. There are days I am swept away because each song played is a favourite. From Guide, Amar Prem, Teesri Manzil... I remember the other programmes like Man Chahe Geet, Fauji Bhaiyon Ke Liye, and Manoranjan. I always waited to know song what the fauji bhai from Jhumri Talaiya would request this time. Sometimes, the film song programmes had a theme. On Independence Day and Republic Day there were stirring patriotic songs. Sometimes they played songs from a particular music director or a film director, or a film star. So when it was Guru Dutt, Geeta Dutt’s mellifluous voice filled the air. Dev Anand meant songs from Guide, Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Asli Naqli and S.D. Burman meant some more heaven. Bhoole Bisre Geet, Chaya Geet...

“We finished dinner by 9.00 p.m. just so that no one had to get up and go into the kitchen while Binaca Geetmala was on,” says Rani who says they also had certain chores that were done only while sitting in front of the radio. She remembers Geeton Bhari Kahahi and other radio skits on Hawa Mahal. Even now, when she is alone, Rani puts on the radio full blast. “I feel there is someone else with me at home,” she says. Binaca Geetmalastarted in 1952 and Ameen Sayani curated the programme until 1988 when it shifted from Radio Ceylon to Vividh Bharti. Sales of records and listeners votes decided which song made it to the top. The first Sar Taj Geet was ‘Yeh Zindagi Usiki Hai’ (Anarkali) sung by Lata Mangeshkar. The year Raju was born it was ‘Hai Apna Dil To Awaara’ (Solva Saal) sung by Hemant Kumar. The year I was born it was ‘Teri Pyari Pyari Surat Ko’ (Sasural), sung by Mohammed Rafi. In 1988, when it was still Binaca Geetmala from Radio Ceylon, the top song was ‘Papa Kehte Hain’ (Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak) sung by Udit Narayan. That was also the year my son was born.
By :- PANKAJA SRINIVASAN

Source and credit:- http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/on-a-nostalgia-trip-with-the-vividh-bharti-app/article9036224.ece 
Forwarded By:- Shri. Jainender Nigam, PB NewsDesk prasarbharati.newsdeskgmail.com

आकाषवाणी इन्दौर द्वारा महाकाल की शाही सवारी का सजीव आँखो देखा हाल प्रसारित किया जायेगा

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आकाशवाणी इन्दौर द्वारा दिनांक 29 अगस्त-ंउचय2016 को श्रावण-ंउचयभादौं मास की महाकाल की छठी और अंतिम शाही सवारी का सजीव आँखो देखा हाल प्रसारित किया जायेगा । ये प्रसारण आकाशवाणी इन्दौर के मीडियम वेव चैनल 648 किलो हर्ट्ज यानि की 462.96 मीटर पर शाम को 05.00 बजे से 06.00 बजे तक और रात्रि 09.30 से 10.00 बजे तक सुना जा सकता है । महाकाल की शाही सवारी के यात्रा मार्ग के सभी प्रमुख स्थानों पर आकाशवाणी प्रतिनिधि इस यात्रा वृतान्त का आँखो देखा हाल सुनाने के लिये उपस्थित रहेंगे । इस वृतान्त में सवारी के सभी मुखौटों, साथ चल रहे संगीत बैन्ड, विभिन्न प्रकार की वेषभूषा में चल रहे लोगों, अखाड़ों और देष के विभिन्न भागों से आये हुए श्रद्धालुओं के बारे में सजीव चित्रण आकाशवाणी से प्रसारित किया जायेगा । इस सजीव वृतान्त के माध्यम से श्रोता रेडियो के माध्यम से बाबा महाकाल के शब्दचित्र दर्षन कर पायेंगे ।


Contributed By: Brahm Prakash Chaturvedi bpchaturvedi@gmail.com 

The live coverage of Janmasthmi Programme on 25 August 2016

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The live coverage of Janmasthmi Programme on 25 August 2016, from Dwarka and Dakor was carried out by DDK Ahmedabad. This Kendra has made elaborate arrangement by deploying DSNG Van, DSNG Fly-Away, 3G TVU Back-Pack at historic temple of Dwarka and Dakor to cover the live event and an additional 3G Back-Pack was also deployed to cover this event from Kacch and Rajkot,to insert live feed of various temples situated there.For the above coverage DDK,Ahmedabad deployed the OB and DSNG Vans with Operational staff at the main temple at Dwarka for the “LIVE” telecast of the above event at “DD Girnar”.MCU Cameras setup along with Flyaway DSNG unit was also installed at the main temple, 

ENG Cameras along with 3G TVU Back-Pack was also deployed at the kacch and Rajkot,to cover this live event from various temples.The grandstanding of this programme was made at studio end through special designed set with anchor. the live feed received from various locations was received in earth station ,which was routed through MSR to produce the programme. The station earned Rs 8 Lacks through advertisement, placed during this programme.

The Efforts, Team work & Quality of the coverage by team of DDK, Ahmedabad were well appreciated. The signal was made available on you tube also for internet users The photographs of above coverage are also attached herewith.

Forwarded By :- A. K. GUPTA, DDE & HOO,DDK AHMEDABAD.

Inspiration - MS Rawat went from selling tea & working in fields to fulfill his dream of taking part in the Olympics

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Rio Olympics 2016 gave India new sporting icons in Dipa Karmakar, Sakshi Malik and P.V.Sindhu, but there were also several heartening stories of Indian players that went unnoticed in the race for medals. Few people know that India was represented by a part-time waiter at the racewalking event at the Rio Olympics. Fewer still know that he bested previous Olympic Medal winners in the competition and narrowly missed the bronze medal by less than a mn 2002, when his father passed away, 10-year-old Rawat saw his mother toil in the fields to make ends meet for the family of four children, including him. Rawat would work with his mother on the farm in the morning before heading to school about seven kms away by foot. In 2006, he took up a part-time job as a waiter at a small eatery near his hometown, Sattar, in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. With two sisters and a young brother at home, Rawat had a hard time sustaining his family on his meagre income as a waiter. Knowing that excelling in athletics could help him get a government job, Rawat decided to pursue racewalking.

Racewalking is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times (over the course of 20 km, at no point can both your feet be mid-air). This is why, apart from the inherent stamina, technique and fitness required in any long distance race, racewalking also tests mental.But Rawat refused to be put off by the lack of world class equipment and a stream of naysayers at Badrinath who would make fun of his walking practice. He pursued his Olympic dream with utmost devotion. Training on the hilly terrain in torn shoes, Rawat continued to juggle several jobs to make ends meet for his family and also support his training. From working as a house help and tourist guide to labouring on farms and driving tractors, the Uttarakhand lad did everything. All through his struggle, people continued to make fun of him, not knowing that the young man was on his way to taking part in the greatest sports show on earth.

In 2010, Rawat tried to get a job with the police through the sports quota. He was desperate to improve the financial situation of his family. This job would give him a salary of Rs 10,000 and all his training and participation at events would be sponsored. However, he was rejected. This was financially the most difficult time for him, and Rawat considered quitting the sport in order to fend for his family. It was his coach who convinced Rawat that he was making progress and that he had a future in the sport.............

Obituary-Anup Mallick, Engg Assistant , DDK Kolkata passed away.

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Anup Mallick  who was working as Engg. Asst. at DDK Kolkata ,passed away today. He was 48 years old.

PB Parivar condoles the demise of Shri Anup Mallick  and prays to the almighty for the peace of departed soul.

Source :Umesh Chandra
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