Description: 'Excellent...an incisive and much needed study of how television is changing India.' - Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, CNN-IBN and IBN-7More than fifty 24-hour news networks, operating in eleven different languages, emerged in India between 1992 and 2006. This book traces the evolution of satellite television and how it effected major changes...
Brief description: NALIN MEHTA is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author. He is associate professor with Shiv Nadar University, consulting editor with The Times of India and editor of the South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) book series and journal. He has previously been managing editor, Headlines Today, adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and held senior executive positions with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva. He has taught at universities and institutions in Australia, Switzerland and Singapore and currently sits on the governing board of the University Grants Commission Consortium for Educational Communication, which oversees the work of twenty-one university centres nationwide. His books include India on Television: How Satellite News Channels Changed the Way We Think and Act, which won the 2009 Asian Publishing Award for Best Book, the best-selling Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games and a critically acclaimed social history of Indian sport, Olympics: The India Story. Twitter: @nalinmehtaWebsite: www.nalinmehta.in