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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

AIR newscasters make words matter

Source: The Morung Express | Ranjana Narayan IANS

Their voices are a part of the everyday life of the people of India, and some have lent their voice to history - to announce the independence of the country, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India winning the 1983 cricket World Cup. Veteran All India Radio (AIR) newscasters are familiar household names who continue to share a special bond with their listeners.

Remember the likes of Devaki Nandan Pandey, Melville de Mello, Surajit Sen, Sushil Jhaveri, Lotika Ratnam and Pamela Singh? Many of them are not around any more or have faded into oblivion. Even so, some veterans remain, and a group of them, belonging to the Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Gujarat streams, were honoured at a function here recently.

R.S. Venkatraman, 88, was the first to announce over AIR that India had gained its................

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