Dear Satheesh
Many congratulations to DDS, and to all those wonderful women and others who
have been part of this historic journey!
We are surely part of many, who have been following the history of women's
radio over the years as it has unfolded at Pastapur. It is truly befitting
that this radio station, owned and managed entirely by these rural women
should be going on air on October 15th, World Rural Women's Day!
We wish the Community Radio Station all the best in the future and hope that
they will continue as beacons of women's leadership and people's
communication and voice, in times to come.
Best regards
Geetha
Geetha Bhardwaj
Head, Community and Social Media
OneWorld South Asia
C 5 Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 016.
Phone: +91-11-41689000
Fax: +91-11-41689001
Mobile Number: 0-98105 48262
http//southasia.oneworld.net
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:21:26 +0530
From: "Deccan Development Society" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [cr-india] First Rural Community Radio Station in India will
be going on air on October 15, 2008
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Dear friends,
I can't describe the delight with which I am sharing with you the news that
the first rural Community Radio Station in India will be going on air on
October 15, 2008, the World Rural Women's Day. It is also a historic justice
that the DDS Community Radio, the first community radio initiative in the
country will pioneer the true and authentic Community Radio. This is a radio
owned, managed and operated by women from the margins of the Society, people
who have been excluded and rendered voiceless in any public forum.
The DDS Community Media initiative started more than ten years ago was
founded on the principle that media has always treated the rural people in
particular and women from marginalised sections in particular, consumers of
the media and never its producers. In recent times, it has totally ignored
them. Therefore a media of the people, for the people, by the people is the
only way to responde to this media marginalisation of the rural poor and
women.
The DDS Community Radio, now called Sangham Radio [for some strange reason,
the government has banned the use of the word FM in the names of Community
Radio Stations. Therefore DDS radi has metamorphosed from the earlier
titleSangham
FM.] has several firsts to its credit. It is the first rural community
radio. It is the first all women radio. It is the first community owned and
managed radio. It is the first radio owned and managed by marginalised
communities. It is also of historical significance that the first authentic
community radio will start from the same place where the first clear
definition and call for Community Radio emanated eight years ago in the form
of Pastapur Declaration by the Community Radio advocates. It is also
significant that DDS was the first applicant for Community Radio as far back
as 2000.
The Sangham Radio will be another link in the historical continuum of
community radio in India. Justice P B Sawant who delivered the landmark
judgement Airwaves are public property will switch on the DDS Radio. Former
Secretary I & B as well as former D G Doordarshan Dr Bhaskar Ghose along
with senior feminist journalist Kalpana Sharma, Ms Jai Chandiram, Chair,
International Association for Women in Radio and Television and Dr Vinod
Pavarala, Professor of Communication and Dean, School of Communication,
University of Hyderabad and the author of the first Indian book on Community
Radio The Other Voices will join the celebration.
Hundreds of women from the DDS sangham families will make the occassion
vibrant and will literally echo the rural voices and issues as the radio
goes on air.
It will be an extraordinary pleasure for all of us if you can come and join
us in these celebrations.
DDS COmmunity Radio will also be the first baby of the struggle of the
Community Radio Forum launched with such devotion and nobility by all of
you.
Please see attached the official invitation drafted by General Narsamma,
Algole Narsamma and myself on behalf of the Community Media Trust.
With warmest regards
satheesh
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Deccan Development Society (DDS)
101 Kishan Residency, street no- 5,
Begumpet,Hyderabad-16,
AP,India.
Ph# + 91-40-27764577 / 27764744
Visit us at : www.ddsindia.com
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