Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day

Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi

Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza

From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium

Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom

Speaker: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio

Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay

Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and Parliamentary Democracy in India

Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker

Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB

Event starts on Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Cultural

Dates

12 Nov 2014, 05:30 AM

Venue

Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day