1st Edition
Television in India Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change
1. Introduction: Satellite Television, Identity and Globalisation in Contemporary India Nalin Mehta 2. The Mahatma Didn’t Like the Movies and Why It Matters: Indian Broadcasting Policy, 1920s–1990s Robin Jeffrey 3. India Talking: Politics, Democracy and News Television Nalin Mehta 4. Politics Without Television: The BSP and the Dalit Counter-Public Sphere Maxine Loynd 5. Muslims on Television: News and Representation on Satellite Channels Roshni Sengupta 6. "Give Me a Vote, and I Will Give You a TV Set": Television in Tamil Nadu Politics Maya Ranganathan 7. Soaps, Serials and the CPI(M), Cricket Beat Them All: Cricket and Television in Contemporary India Boria Majumdar 8. Bowling with the Wind: A Television Producer’s View on Cricket and Satellite TV in Contemporary India Peter Hutton 9. Changing Contexts, New Texts: ‘Inserting’ TV Into the Transforming Text of Post-1980 Bengali Cinema Sharmistha Gooptu
Biography
Nalin Mehta has a PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne and has been a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum (2007). A former DFID Commonwealth scholar, he has over 10 years of experience as a broadcast journalist, most recently as Deputy News Editor and news presenter at Times Now, one of India's most popular 24-hour English news networks. His other publications include India on Television (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2008). He now works for UNAIDS India.
