Award-winning #Doordarshan anchor #GitanjaliAiyar passes away

Aiyar joined DD in 1971. She won the award for best anchor four times. She also won the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Outstanding Women in 1989.

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Journalist Bodies Warn Against 'Saffronisation' of Doordarshan and AIR

In a statement, the NAJ and DUJ said that Prasar Bharati's decision to rely solely on the RSS-backed Hindusthan Samachar news agency will "saffronise news in India to suit the ruling party and kill neutral and independent journalism".

#doordarshan #AIR #AllIndiaRadio #DD #PrasarBharati #RSS #HindusthanSamachar #hindutva #media #communalism #saffronisation #BJP #NAJ #DUJ #india

https://thewire.in/media/naj-duj-hindusthan-samachar-prasar-bharati

The excitement when we got DD2, colloquially called 2nd Channel, for couple of hours a day of smarter, flashier programmes.
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At least they classified it as entertainment, not documentary or history!

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Rebroadcast of #Ramayana on #Doordarshan smashes viewership records worldwide, the show becomes most watched entertainment show in the world with 7.7 crore viewers on 16th of April