At the height of his popularity in the mid-1990s, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had made a trip to London. Addressing his followers at the Patna airport on his return, Yadav had proudly exclaimed: "Do you know where I went? I went to the BBC office in London!"
That Lalu chose to describe BBC as the biggest highlight of his London visit was hardly surprising. That's a name that everyone - including the poorest and most backward that Lalu sought to address - in north India could recognise, probably even better than London itself. For years, BBC's Hindi news bulletins on short-wave radio has been the only source of information - certainly the most credible, as most listeners would insist - for millions of people in the Hindi heartland of India. Alas! that would be no longer the case from April 1. The BBC on Wednesday announced that it would discontinue its Hindi bulletins from April 1 as part of a global restructuring of its services. "This is death of an institution... an iconic institution. I have been in mourning ever since I learnt about the announcement," said Achala Sharma, who headed the Hindi Service for nearly 11 years, and was one of the most popular voices of the Service. (from Indian Express.com) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
