[Reader-list] Broadcaster's Club of India to be set up for the First Time

[broadcaster at syhlleti.org]

My dear friends at sarai,
I wish to inform you that a Broadcaster's Club of India is to be set up for
the first time in India by Mr Arun Sakat, Deputy Controller of Programmes,
Doordarshan.
You can contact him at 9811099087 or 3383569 (O) to get details about this
club.
This Club will debate on the issues of public broadcasting and will also
host an online discussion list on the web.
I hope sarai will provide a space in its site for hosting such a discussion
list.
Mr Arun Sakat, though in Doordarshan, has been working within the official
media to create a discourse on public broadcasting through his concept of
LOK BHARATI that will be participatory in nature.
The Broadcaster's Club will be in the sense a communication cooperative
with a participatory approach to broadcasting.
Mr Sakat has been an alumni of FTII,Pune.
He passed FTII in 1975 in Film editing.
  Mr Sakat's friends like Mr Mike Pandey, Mr Amir Khusru, will all be part
of this club.
My friends at Sarai especially Shuddhabrata, Monica and Jeebesh are invited
to join this club and provide valuable inputs to Mr Sakat. Mr Sakat can be
reached at sakatarun at rediffmail.com
By the way, two documentary films - one on Amir Khusrau and the other on
Bahadur Shah Zafar are being planned by Mr Sakat's friend, Mr Amir Khusru
who is running his own production - Zeal Infotainment. Scripting support is
necessary for such a project. Please provide research inputs in terms of
content to these films. These films revolve around the lives of Amir
Khusrau and Bahadur Shah Zafar. Any medieval history specialist among my
sarai friends can provide these valuable research inputs to these films.
It will be ideal if any of these friends want to join me and my friends in
the research team formed by Amirji for the purpose of scripting.
You can email either to me or Amir Khusru at amir_khusru at yahoo.com and
provide the valuable insights to the films. These films will also be part
of such an initiative of public service broadcasting. As these are
historical films, extra care is being taken on correct facts which will not
distort history. As you know the Sangh parivar and RSS through its minister
of HRD, M M Joshi has been systematically distorting history by
communalising the entire history textbooks and also bringing in non-
professional layman historians in the NCERT, ICHR bodies. That's why I feel
that today it is all the more necessary to make good aesthetic historical
documentaries which will not be based on distortions and will depict the
composite pluralistic culture of India.
I hope my friends at sarai will understand the need today to form such a
broadcaster's club to focus on all these issues.
Bye-
Do respond positively.
Cheers
Sagnik Chakravartty