Nalini Singh's critical film on the Sardar Sarovar project questions the dam's viability in terms of poverty relief.

Doordarshan and video magazines are beginning to feature environmental matters more regularly, especially when they involve conflicts.

IN THE latest round of the unending debate on the effects of television on children, a British report states middle-class primary school beginners are unable. to read because they cannot

The 24th international film festival in New Delhi introduced an indigenously developed technology that makes it possible to telecast a film simultaneously from different telecasting regional centres subtitled in the language of that region.

Frank programmes on AIDS were telecast by both Doordarshan and STAR TV, Perhaps prompted by the realisation that bothering about the niceness of things could have disastrous consequences.

Individuals and voluntary agencies continue to make films in different parts of the country on subjects that interest them, though hardly any of these make it to the television screen.

The TV serial of the late 1980s is now available as a video series. Although its message of self reliance is a bit dated, it still is a useful mix of science, history and social development.

There are some rivetting science programmes on Star TV and BBC which should inspire Doordarshan to produce better programmes in this genre

>> E-bay, the world's largest online auctioneer, has launched a website that allows people to invest in loans that lift people out of poverty. The website, called MicroPlace, acts as a broker between

Its producers describe it as the most boring tv programme ever. But then there's a purpose to it. The Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission (iec) has roped in tv professionals to

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