Sundays in most houses meant only Television. Despite not understanding a word of Hindi – they used to sit and watch even dull programs such as Krishi Darshan, Saptahiki and Kavi Sammelans.
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In fact, I remember my grand uncle and aunt switching on the TV right from the time when those unforgettable horizontal lines appeared with a shrill sound waiting for the DD circles to appear patiently. Every act right from opening the shutters to switching on the stabilizer to watching the Doordarshan symbol rotate and culminate in a Satyam Shivam Sundaram was thrilling. Our Dyanora TV had a shutter which was fashionable during the 80s. Also the presence of Sadhana Srivasatava and Jyotsna in our drawing rooms every evening definitely energised us. Hindi News screen had its share of news goddesses ranging from Salma Sultan with her mournful looks and rose to boot, Pratima Puri with her cute motherly charm, a ravishing Avinash Kaur Sareen or buxom Manjari Joshi. Of course, the male brigade of news readers never ceased to impress – be it the Late Tejeshwar Singh or Sunit Tandon. All we had were a classy Komal GB Singh, Neeti Ravindran with a mole or serious faced Gitanjali Iyer and Minu.
We had no debates or celebrity chats, no special features or investigations, no Barkha Dutt at Kargil or Sreenivasan Jain in a rain ravaged Mumbai. News (in Hindi and English) was so prosaic compared to the News programmes that we have today. Those were the most simple, harmless hopes of the 80’s. Whether it was Disco Station from Hathkadi or one of the forgettable hits from Teri Kasam – it was always a happy half hour with hopes soaring that atleast 1 song could be sqeezed in towards the end. Chitrahaar sponsored by Topaz Stainless Blade was a major high for me and this laid the foundation for the filmi fever in me that continues till today. I dropped everything what I was doing to be in front of the television at 8 PM on Wednesdays. I want to tread down this memory lane and recollect some of those inestimable times… DD became the very soul of the nation and for the next decade and a half to come the entire nation’s schedule was almost governed by DD and its programmes.Įven to this day, the theme songs of serials, those ad jingles and national integration songs bring back some strange kind of nostalgia that can only be felt by people who were a part of the Doordarshan generation. Although the advent of television in India (atleast in the Metros) was way before the 80s – it gained a new meaning with the coming of the 80s. Doordarshan was a common factor that bound us all together irrespective of the age group or region where we belonged to. The 80s were one of the best years of my life ………this would be true for most of India’s kids who were born in the 60’s and 70’s. A Tribute to Doordarshan : by Kartik Krishnaswamy
Doordarshan (abbreviated in English as DD) is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.
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