The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Thursday, July 24 1997

Letters to the Editor

Towards autonomy

WIll the nine o'clock news on Doordarshan and All India Radio be any different after September 15, when the newly notified Prasar Bharati Act, 1990, comes into force? A nation that has been fed for the last five decades on a diet of government news and views on radio and TV can only welcome any step towards greater media autonomy, however timorous.

Heroes in their own right -- Gandhi and Ambedkar

Mahatma Gandhi was not so such the Father of the Nation as the mother of all debates regarding its future. All his life he fought in a friendly spirit with compatriots whose views on this or that topic diverged sharply from his.

Sivaji's cinema: the voiced culture

National recognition is reported to have been won by Tamil thespian Sivaji Ganesan along with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 1996. How correct is this claim? Not much, if what is meant is the recognition of more than a mere name (with a puzzlingly misspelt first name, for north Indians).

The door into summer

No Gawlis, please -- The criminal must remain on the fringe

An agenda put on the backburner