50 years of Indian Television

It was in1959 that the Indian television was discovered which had only the Doordarshan (DD) channel. It was then only under the Government’s control. Now many private channels have come in. Even national and international channels are being broadcasted to almost all parts of the nation. Thus the Indians developed in the Department of Media and Communications.

Now India is celebrating the discovery of Indian television after 50 years, a special occasion indeed! The Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India has arranged for a conference on celebrating the golden jubilee of Indian Television. It was on July 19-20, 2009, in the seminar, various papers were presented about the research works, improvements and other plans made for improvement.

From just the repetition of the same old cartoons ‘Jungle Book’ and ‘Aladdin’, Indian television has started propagating world famous Walt Disney cartoons and other productions. Besides, any natural calamity or terrorist attack occurring in any part of the World is live-telecasted. Even the routine life of animals and more stunningly the blooming of flowers in some south African forest or north African desert or the poles of arctic or Antarctic are also captured on a video and spread via air and optics (laid even under-water) are being enabled to watch on the same settee where we sit and read the newspapers. Only difference between the both is the time taken! In this present world, DTH connections are gaining popularity. GPRS-enabled Mobile phones are also connected to a television box and enjoyed on a broader screen.

The next generation television is the (IPTH internet protocol-TH) wherein network connection is transmitted partly and that facilitates saving up the once missed program or some TV serial for up to three months in the television itself and watching them whenever time permits. This facility also permits forwarding and rewinding options for any TV program! What a Wonder! Satellite works!!!

Would Indian brains just stop with that? I don’t think so. A time would come when even the papers presented for Nobel prizes would be displayed on video-conference on television! So let the knowledge and information widen and reach every nook and corner of the society, the nation, till it satisfies what is necessary and help Indians stand filled with knowledge essential!

Nisha Daniel