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A reference for the Doordarshan years. Programmes, songs, radio, and the objects that went with them.
- Rangoli, the Sunday morning song show on DoordarshanRangoli was the film song programme Doordarshan played on Sunday mornings, while the house was being swept, washed and got ready for the day.
- Farmaish and Jhumri Telaiya: the radio song requestHow Indians posted a card to a radio station asking for a song, and how one small town in Jharkhand came to send more of them than anywhere else.
- What a Doordarshan Sunday actually looked likeA walk through Sunday on Doordarshan in the late 1980s and 1990s, and an honest account of why almost nobody agrees on the order of it.
- Chitthi Aayi Hai: the song about a letter from homeA 1986 ghazal from the film Naam, sung by Pankaj Udhas, about a letter reaching a man working far away, and why it still plays last.
- Chitrahaar: the Doordarshan film song programmeChitrahaar was half an hour of film songs on Doordarshan, first aired in 1982. What it was, when it was on, and why people still argue about the day.
- The audio cassette in India and what it changedCheap tapes after 1983 put film music into every barbershop and tea stall. What the cassette was, what it cost, and why the same songs were everywhere.