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SURRINDAR SINGH GILL

because Prasar Bharati means a new face

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Horoscopes? Obscurantist. Teleshopping? Consumerism. Mythologicals? Throw them out. The Prasar Bharati Corporation was supposed to free the world's largest television and radio network from government clutches. It's free. Now it's in S.S. Gill's clutches. Actually, the new CEO of India's airwaves is learning to cooperate with an annoyed board of directors. Still, he's omnipresent: from rationing tea to his visitors to abolishing news censorship, nothing escapes his hawk eyes.

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