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Monday, April 20, 1998
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Something old, something new
Rehash of an unending saga or a last-ditch effort to revive a serial that failed miserably? Ramesh Sippy's Gaatha was taken off the air after 21 episodes and replaced by Virrudh. With the same cast and the same storyline, Virrudh was trashed as a repackaged version of Gaatha. "How is it a different serial?" scoffed critics.
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Is DD a spoiltsport?
A week before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Doordarshan called a hastily arranged press-conference where it was announced that DD would telecast live all the matches that the Indian hockey team would play in Atlanta.. R.S.Rawat, then DDG Sports (DD) sounded a warning bell. ``Ultimately, all the sports federations that are trying out on ESPN and Star Sports will have to come back to DD.'' Who watches the foreign channels he had asked?
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Fighting for the right pitch
Call it Banzai, the Japanese battle cry. Or the Coca-Cola surprise. After all, Tokyo was the previous assignment of Donald Wilson Short, before he landed on the Indian shores to head the Atlanta-based beverage company's operations in the subcontinent's market. And his samurai approach is already making an cutting edge impact, enough for his rivals to sit up and take notice.
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RSS chief comes down on Cong, hails BJP's raise
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief (Sar Sanghchalak) Rajju Bhaiyya came down heavily on the Congress party's successive rule and described March 15, the day on which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, as a watershed in India's history.
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