The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio, New Delhi. From 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later, The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) w.e.f. January 5, 1958. It was made fortnightly journal again w.e.f July 1,1983.
NAME OF THE JOURNAL: AKASHVANI
LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English
DATE, MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION : 30 OCTOBER, 1977
PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly
NUMBER OF PAGES: 68
VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XLII. No. 44
BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED (PAGE NOS): 19-64
ARTICLE:
1. Intellectuals And The New Situation
2. Thirty Years After Independence (Discussion)
3. The World of Cartoons
4. Uday Shankara- A Tribute
5. Kannada Haridasa Literature
6. Ranji- The Great Cricketer
7. Where Fatherhood is Unknown
8. Futurology in Agriculture
9. Early Days of Broadcasting
10. Yoga for Women
AUTHOR:
1. Dr. Arun Shourie
2. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, Ashok Mehta, DR. Rajni Kothari George Verghese
3. Sudhir Das
4. Mohan Khokar
5. Kambaluru Venkatesa Acharya
6. V. Pattabiram
7. Sunita Das Gupta
8. Dr. G. Ranga Swami
9. Tushar K. Ghosh
10. Rajeshwari Raman
KEYWORDS :
1. Emergency, Role of Intellectuals, Hegemonic System
2. Democracy, Adult Franchise, Employment, Political Rights
3. Cartooning in America, Greatest Cartoonist, Good Idea for Comic strip
4. World Dance Scene, Shankar's Scope, beauty and Expression
5. Concept of Bhakti, Haridasa Sahitya, Comman Man's Upanishad
6. 1901 His Greatest Year, Great Batsman, A Unique Record
7. Illegitimate Children, Hindu Adoption Act 1956, unmarried mothers
8. Returns From the Land, Low Fertility Level
9. Under Village Tree, Nationalisation, Crusaders
10. Inhibition of Human Wind, Yama And niyama, Asana, Dharana, Dhyan
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