Receiving a Wildscreen Panda award is perhaps much more than music to the ears of a team that started off in 1988 by making ad jingles. Eight years later, Nikhil and Niret Alva have bagged what is more popularly known as the green Oscar for the series their com pany, Miditech TV, has been producing: Living on the Edge.

A prime-time environmental serial beamed on Doordarshan, Living on the Edge is an attempt to present the flip side of development. The bro thers intended it to be a coherent and straightforward approach to the subject rather than a purely emotional one. The honour