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Independent TV, formerly Reliance Big TV, was an Indian direct to home (DTH) television operator. It was a subsidiary of Reliance Communications till 2018 and later became part of Pantel Technologies & Veecon Media.
Sep 12, 2022 · Wikipedia. 208K views 1 year ago. "While We Watched", a new documentary on veteran journalist Ravish Kumar, attests to the challenges of independent news reporting in India today. Death...
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- ‘Enemies of The State’ Memes
- Building Trust, Capturing Personal Moments
- ‘Send The Tax Police’
- Trauma of ‘Cake-Cutting Scenes’
- ‘Rigging Democracy’
The film begins with a trademark opening line familiar to millions of NDTV Hindi viewers. “Namaskar, mein Ravish Kumar,” (Hello, I’m Ravish Kumar) says the clean-shaven anchor with salt-and-pepper hair. And with that, the documentary plunges right in, aided by an audio track of Kumar’s scripts, among the best in Hindi-language TV. “When your govern...
The labelling is often followed by targeting, a sequence taken up by overzealous “defenders” of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been “developing an army of millions of trolls called 'yoddhas'” (warriors) by Modi. "Their job is to use social media sites to attack journalists on the BJP hit list,” notes...
Some of the most nail-biting moments though are captured not in the home but in the NDTV offices, where the drama provides a granular view of how democracy dies in the darkness of a leading media organisation being asphyxiated by political pressure. In 2017, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) – the Indian equivalent of the FBI – raided the h...
As the financial pressures start to pinch, Kumar is constantly leaving his glass cabin to join colleagues cutting a cake for yet another departing staffer. It was the cake leitmotif, Shukla confesses, that convinced him to make a documentary on the NDTV star journalist. Back in 2018, the documentary filmmaker contacted Kumar to ask if he could spen...
The Adani Group has come under intense media scrutiny, particularly in Australia, where it has major mining interests. While the group’s head, Gautam Adani, denies any improper relationship with Modi, financial journalistshave noted how the two men’s fortunes have risen in tandem. NDTV has so far managed to block the transfer of shares due to the A...
Dec 5, 2022 · As a billionaire close to the prime minister nears acquisition of NDTV, India's last independent mainstream TV network, many fear for journalism.
Jan 9, 2020 · With the closure of Independent TV, the total pay DTH operators in India will be just four. And they are Tata Sky, Dish TV, Airtel Digital TV and Sun Direct. There are several local Cable TV ...
Dec 1, 2022 · Experts say this move marks the endgame for independent media in India, leaving the country’s biggest television news channels in the hands of billionaires who have strong ties to the Indian ...
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