COURTESY: Himanshi Dhawan, The Times of India, December 15, 2013 NEW DELHI: Independent radio experts and stakeholders in the community radio sector on Saturday slammed government ban on radio news as part of a colonial, archaic...
Read MoreCommunity Radio has been making waves in South Asia during the past couple of months. Both the NGO, Common Cause’s recent public interest litigation (PIL) and the SAARC-AMARC South Asia consultations in September have...
Read MoreThe Uttarakhand floods are a wake up call to all of us that climate change is not just a reality but is also here to stay. As floods, earthquakes and drought increasingly confront the global landscape the writing on the wall...
Read MoreA survey was carried out by AMARC Asia Pacific in 2008-2009 in eight countries. The countries chosen for the survey were Afghanistan, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal and Sri Lanka to determine the practices of...
Read MoreThe cliché usually runs: From disaster to relief. But judging by a recent lead story of one of the country’s most well known newspapers, the reverse might well be true. Headlined, “No disaster communication system despite...
Read MoreUPDATE: The Continuous Improvement Toolkit for Community Radios is now available for download. The UNESCO Chair on Community Media, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) conducted two...
Read MoreA two-day workshop on ‘Campus Community Radios’ was conducted on February 22 and 23, 2013, with about 15 participants from Campus CR stations and communication departments from across the country participated in the...
Read MoreA historian, attempting to cover the course of community radio policy in India, might be prompted to describe the first couple of decades as throwing up a series of uneasy questions and- at best – piecemeal answers:...
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